Arthur Bowen Davies | Questroyal

Arthur Davies was a visionary modernist who played a leading role in the New York art world. Known for his ethereal images of female nudes in pastoral landscapes, Davies developed an enigmatic style with symbolic associations. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League and became one of the integral members of the Eight (otherwise known as the Ashcan School), exhibiting alongside Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, and Everett Shinn. He served as the President of the Society of Independent Artists, was instrumental in organizing the famous Armory Show of 1913, and won prizes from the 1901 Pan-American Exhibition, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Carnegie Institute. Today, Davies’s work is in major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.