The Great Mother
Arthur B. Davies
c. 1913
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 102.24 × 66.68 cm (40 1/4 × 26 1/4 in.) framed: 118.11 × 81.28 cm (46 1/2 × 32 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Lizzie P. Bliss)
Accession Number
2015.19.54
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...