Charles Harold Davis

Charles Harold Davis
circa 1914
Born	January 7, 1856(1856-01-07) Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
Died	August 5, 1933(1933-08-05) (aged 77)
Nationality	American
Field	Landscape art, Painting

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.

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 eventually became a leading figure in the art colony that had developed in Mystic, and founded the Mystic Art Association in 1913.

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.

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.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.  Media related to Charles Harold Davis at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• Extensive biography from 1995 Magazine Antiques
• Bnet biography

Persondata
Name	Davis, Charles Harold
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	7 January 1856
Place of birth	Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
Date of death	5 August 1933
Place of death