Sketchbook I
Arthur B. Davies
1883
Medium
Maroon buckram cover, tinted paper pages with designs in graphite and watercolor
Dimensions
12 × 15.2 × 1 cm (4 3/4 × 6 × 7/16 in.)
Classification
sketchbook
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
62730
About the Artist
Arthur B. Davies · 1862–1928
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928) occupies one of the most paradoxical positions in American art history: a painter whose own canvases were lyrical, dreamlike, and rooted in the classical tradition, yet whose organizational energy and curatorial vision helped force American audiences into direct confrontation with the European avant-garde. Born on 26 September 1862 in Utica, New York, to English and...