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1874 St. Louis, Missouri - 1962 Norwalk, Connecticut. Known for: Female figure painting, commercial art.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1874, Clara D. Davidson was 15 and living with her family in Brooklyn when she enrolled at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School in New York. From 1889 to 1893 classes... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1874, Clara D. Davidson was 15 and living with her family in Brooklyn when she enrolled at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School in New York. From 1889 to 1893 classes taken by her in drawing from elementary casts, the antique, life and pen and ink illustration at the... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1874, Clara D. Davidson was 15 and living with her family in Brooklyn when she enrolled at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School in New York. From 1889 to 1893 classes taken by her in drawing from elementary casts, the antique, life and pen and ink illustration at the Woman's Art School provided a foundation for her absorbing style of rendering. She attended the Art Students League and studied with Arthur Wesley Dow in New York before embarking on a four-year stint of... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1874, Clara D. Davidson was 15 and living with her family in Brooklyn when she enrolled at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School in New York. From 1889 to 1893 classes taken by her in drawing from elementary casts, the antique, life and pen and ink illustration at the Woman's Art School provided a foundation for her absorbing style of rendering. She attended the Art Students League and studied with Arthur Wesley Dow in New York before embarking on a four-year stint of study and travel in Europe. In Paris she maintained an atelier that was visited by many Americans. During the years she spent abroad she studied with Alphonse Mucha and Jacques-Emil Blanche. The drawings she did of models at Mucha's Paris studio are... Read full biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1874, Clara D. Davidson was 15 and living with her family in Brooklyn when she enrolled at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School in New York. From 1889 to 1893 classes taken by her in drawing from elementary casts, the antique, life and pen and ink illustration at the Woman's Art School provided a foundation for her absorbing style of rendering. She attended the Art Students League and studied with Arthur Wesley Dow in New York before embarking on a four-year stint of study and travel in Europe. In Paris she maintained an atelier that was visited by many Americans. During the years she spent abroad she studied with Alphonse Mucha and Jacques-Emil Blanche. The drawings she did of models at Mucha's Paris studio are revealing of how, for Davidson, the figure is both equally a source of formal study and a subject of human interest. Her images of wom... Read full biography
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Keywords (43)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Dogs, Dog Portraits
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked After 1900
Art Association
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Alphonse Mucha
- •Arthur Wesley Dow
- •J. Emile Blanche
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Figure Specialty
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
Artist Colony
- •Silvermine Guild, Art Colony
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •Silvermine Artists Guild
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts