Charles Harold Davis
{{Short description|American landscape painter (1856–1933)}}
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| birth_place = Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|8|5|1856|1|7}}
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| nationality = American
| known_for = Landscape art, Painting
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Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts. A pupil of the schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he was sent to Paris in 1880. Having studied at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger, he went to Barbizon and painted much in the forest of Fontainebleau under the traditions of the men of thirty.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
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In 1890, Davis returned to the U.S., settling in Mystic, Connecticut. He shifted to Impressionism in his style, and took up the cloudscapes for which he became best-known.
He became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1906, and received many awards, including a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
He is represented by important works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
References
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Sources
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Davis, Charles Howard|display=Davis, Charles Howard [sic]|volume=7|page=866}}
External links
- [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v148/ai_17743156 Extensive biography] from 1995 Magazine Antiques
- [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v148/ai_17743156 Bnet biography]
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/field/subjec/searchterm/Davis,%20Charles%20H.%20(Charles%20Harold),%201856-1933%20--%20Exhibitions/mode/exact Twelve exhibition catalogs] available as a full-text PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/nyregion/a-painter-of-clouds-revisited-at-the-bruce-museum-in-greenwich.html?_r=0] Nov 15, 2015 New York Times article on a retrospective of his work at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT.
- [https://www.bedfordfineartgallery.com/charles_harold_davis_autumn.html Artwork by Charles Harold Davis]
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American Impressionist painters
Category:American landscape painters
Category:National Academy of Design members
Category:People from Mystic, Connecticut