Joseph Davol (1864-1923) was born in Chicago. He was educated at Cornell University, but apparently left after a year. He first worked in a Chicago brokerage house, but in 1890 decided he preferred an art career. He had some early training in Philadelphia, Boston and New York and eventually rounded off his training at the Academie Julian in Paris,1895-1896.

He discovered the existing art colony in Ogunquit, Maine and was also influenced there by its leader, Charles Woodbury. Davol stayed there for most of the rest of his career, producing colorful landscapes and seascapes in a realistic and impressionistic style.

In New York City, he was a Salmagundi Club and Fencer's Club member, and in Philadelphia was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won a silver medal at the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.

In art books, he is listed in Davenport Gold Edition, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters and Who's Who in American Art


Submitted by Robert Savage, whose source is Wikipedia