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About Charles H. Davis:
Apparently, in 1874, 18-year-old Charles Davis visited an exhibition of European paintings at the Boston Athenaeum and decided to become an artist. Three years later, Davis went to Boston where he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts under Otto Grundmann. In the fall of 1880 Charles sailed for Paris, where he roomed with Edward Simmons. Soon he took his own quarters and signed up for instruction Académie Julian. Of course he visited Barbizon in the forest of Fontainebleau, which proved to be a life-long inspiration.
Davis became quite enamored of Millet and others of the Barbizon School.Davis began exhibiting successfully at the National Academy of Design, was elected a member of the Society of American Artists, and won numerous awards in Paris, New York, and Chicago between 1885 and 1890. At the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 he received a silver medal for four works, including The Valley, Evening (Manoogian Collection). A solo show of works by Claude Monet in the winter of 1888-89 had a gradual influence on the style of Davis, and iIn spite of his marked devotion to the Barbizon School, Davis experimented from time to time. |
Paintings by Charles H. Davis
| Near Mystic, Connecticut |
| oil on canvas: 24 x 30 inches |
| signed: lower left |
| date: circa 1892 |
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