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1864 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - 1939. Known for: Still life, landscape, village scene painting.
David Davies was a leading figure of Australian Impressionism who studied at the Ballarat School of Mines and the National Gallery Schools under Frederick McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby. He also studied... Read full biography
David Davies was a leading figure of Australian Impressionism who studied at the Ballarat School of Mines and the National Gallery Schools under Frederick McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby. He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and joined the plein-air painting artists’ colony in St Ives,... Read full biography
David Davies was a leading figure of Australian Impressionism who studied at the Ballarat School of Mines and the National Gallery Schools under Frederick McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby. He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and joined the plein-air painting artists’ colony in St Ives, Cornwall. Davies is known for his Moonlight series of nocturnes depicting tonal landscapes near his studio at dusk and dawn. He returned to Australia in 1893 and settled in Templestowe in Victoria where he... Read full biography
David Davies was a leading figure of Australian Impressionism who studied at the Ballarat School of Mines and the National Gallery Schools under Frederick McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby. He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and joined the plein-air painting artists’ colony in St Ives, Cornwall. Davies is known for his Moonlight series of nocturnes depicting tonal landscapes near his studio at dusk and dawn. He returned to Australia in 1893 and settled in Templestowe in Victoria where he spent the next three years painting his celebrated Moonlight series. Davies' Moonrise, c.1894 captures the liminal nature of the moon over the paddocks of sparse Australian grassland and tufts of scrub. Chief examples of Davies’ Moonlight series are... Read full biography
David Davies was a leading figure of Australian Impressionism who studied at the Ballarat School of Mines and the National Gallery Schools under Frederick McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby. He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and joined the plein-air painting artists’ colony in St Ives, Cornwall. Davies is known for his Moonlight series of nocturnes depicting tonal landscapes near his studio at dusk and dawn. He returned to Australia in 1893 and settled in Templestowe in Victoria where he spent the next three years painting his celebrated Moonlight series. Davies' Moonrise, c.1894 captures the liminal nature of the moon over the paddocks of sparse Australian grassland and tufts of scrub. Chief examples of Davies’ Moonlight series are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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- •Heidelberg School: Australian Impressionism