The First Snowfall
c. 1877-1887
Medium
watercolor and pastel on gray wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 31.59 × 48.26 cm (12 7/16 × 19 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Arthur B. Davies, wife of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.322
Rights
Public Domain
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...