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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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Itinerant Artist
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Life-Size Portrait, Figure, Animal
- •Portrait-Full Length
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Silhouettes, Silhouette Portraiture
- •Still Life
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War