Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who... Read full biography
Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave him the reputation for Tonalism and... Read full biography
Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave him the reputation for Tonalism and that resulted from his visit to Barbizon, France, depicted every hour from dawn to sunset with a subtlety of form and color. However, in the mid 1890s, his style changed dramatically to Impressionism.... Read full biography
Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave him the reputation for Tonalism and that resulted from his visit to Barbizon, France, depicted every hour from dawn to sunset with a subtlety of form and color. However, in the mid 1890s, his style changed dramatically to Impressionism. Davis did not set out to be an artist, and he had early employment in a carriage factory. However, after attending an exhibition featuring works by Jean Francois Millet, French Barbizon-School painter, he, with the encouragement of his father, enrolled... Read full biography
Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave him the reputation for Tonalism and that resulted from his visit to Barbizon, France, depicted every hour from dawn to sunset with a subtlety of form and color. However, in the mid 1890s, his style changed dramatically to Impressionism. Davis did not set out to be an artist, and he had early employment in a carriage factory. However, after attending an exhibition featuring works by Jean Francois Millet, French Barbizon-School painter, he, with the encouragement of his father, enrolled in 1877 in the newly founded school at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His teacher was Otto Grundman. In 1880, a local businessman who... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (72)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
An Enduring Legacy: American Impressionist Landscapes from the Thomas Clark Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Coe, Erin B. (Essay)
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all
200 pages (color)
Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Cleveland, David Adams
114 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery)
68 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection
2003
Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays)
308 pages (color)
The Early Years Paintings from Private Connecticut Collections (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Old Lyme Art Association
20 pages (color)
The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
The Florence Griswold Museum
144 pages (color)
American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
2001
Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America
1999
Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose
29 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two
1997
Vose Galleries
35 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer
104 pages (color)
In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts
120 pages (color)
The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carr, Carolyn K
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Americans in the Arts 1890-1920
1985
Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab
672 pages
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays)
184 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project
1978
Berman, Greta
300 pages
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes
1976
Wadsworth Atheneum
96 pages (color)
American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bermingham, Peter
191 pages (color)
American Impressionism
1974
Boyle, Richard
238 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The American Impressionists
1972
Hoopes, Donelson F
160 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1931 American Art Annual