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1811 - 1865. Known for: Naive portrait, landscape painting.
Joseph H. Davis was active circa 1832-1837 in Dover, New Hampshire and nearby Maine towns. A naive or folk artist, he combined drawing with watercolor to produce one-hundred fifty surviving... Read full biography
Joseph H. Davis was active circa 1832-1837 in Dover, New Hampshire and nearby Maine towns. A naive or folk artist, he combined drawing with watercolor to produce one-hundred fifty surviving small-scale portraits of New England families, often husbands and wives seated on opposite sides of their... Read full biography
Joseph H. Davis was active circa 1832-1837 in Dover, New Hampshire and nearby Maine towns. A naive or folk artist, he combined drawing with watercolor to produce one-hundred fifty surviving small-scale portraits of New England families, often husbands and wives seated on opposite sides of their tables, with perhaps the man reading a newspaper, and the woman holding a cat or sewing. They are surrounded by the artifacts of their lives the Bible, bowls of fruit, paintings on the walls, set off by... Read full biography
Joseph H. Davis was active circa 1832-1837 in Dover, New Hampshire and nearby Maine towns. A naive or folk artist, he combined drawing with watercolor to produce one-hundred fifty surviving small-scale portraits of New England families, often husbands and wives seated on opposite sides of their tables, with perhaps the man reading a newspaper, and the woman holding a cat or sewing. They are surrounded by the artifacts of their lives the Bible, bowls of fruit, paintings on the walls, set off by bold designs on carpets and table cloths. While many of the paintings are in the homes of the descendants of those depicted in the works, three paintings are in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and another in the Metropolitan Museum of... Read full biography
Joseph H. Davis was active circa 1832-1837 in Dover, New Hampshire and nearby Maine towns. A naive or folk artist, he combined drawing with watercolor to produce one-hundred fifty surviving small-scale portraits of New England families, often husbands and wives seated on opposite sides of their tables, with perhaps the man reading a newspaper, and the woman holding a cat or sewing. They are surrounded by the artifacts of their lives the Bible, bowls of fruit, paintings on the walls, set off by bold designs on carpets and table cloths. While many of the paintings are in the homes of the descendants of those depicted in the works, three paintings are in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Little is known about Davis's own life before and after his brief career. On one portrait, he identified himself as a "l... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesMasterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999Editor, Smith College Museum307 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester288 pages (color)American Art History and Culture
1994Craven, Wayne687 pages (color)American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991Howat, John K (foreward)204 pages (color)American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor204 pages (color)American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982Koke, Richard J1,243 pagesThe Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981Rumford, Beatrix295 pages (color)American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong233 pages (color)Folk Painters of America
1979Bishop, Robert255 pages (color)Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979Ericson, Jack T275 pagesAmerican Watercolor Painting
1977Hoopes, Donelson F208 pages (color)Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977Miles, Ellen G (editor)176 pages (color)Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc208 pages (color)Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Tillou, Peter114 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)A History of American Art
1973Mendelowitz, Daniel M662 pagesHistory of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969Flexner, James Thomas307 pagesThe American Tradition in the Arts
1968McLanathan, Richard492 pagesAmerican Folk Painting
1966Black, Mary/Jean Lipman244 pages (color)101 American Primitive Watercolor And Pastels
1966
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art141 pages (color)Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all178 pages (color)What Is American in American Art
1963Lipman, Jean (editor)180 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesLa Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento
1956Baur, John I H58 pagesAmerican Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements
1953Baur, John I H60 pagesPictorial Folk Art New England to California
1949Ford, Alice172 pages (color)