Charles Harold Davis
Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.
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Charles Harold Davis

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- Name
- Charles Harold Davis
- Born
- 7 January 1856
- Birthplace
- Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States
- Died
- 5 August 1933
- Known for
- Landscape art, Painting
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- landscape painting
- Education
- Académie Julian
- Languages
- English
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Charles Harold Davis (7 January 1856 – 5 August 1933) was an American landscape painter.
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Charles Harold Davis (1856–1933) was a painter, of American nationality. The painter was born in Amesbury and died in New London County.
Charles Harold Davis was educated at Académie Julian. Activity centred on landscape painting.
The work spans landscape and landscape painting. Languages used include English. Works are held at Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others.
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Charles Harold Davis studied at Académie Julian. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is landscape painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Charles Harold Davis is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Description: Inscription lower left: "Charles H. Davis". Inscription lower right: "His daughter Angela G. Davis, 1914." Published in: Archives of American Art Journal v. 15, no. 2, p. 10. Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933 Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
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• Name — Charles Harold Davis • Born — 7 January 1856 • Birthplace — Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States • Died — 5 August 1933 • Known for — Landscape art, Painting
Biography
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He was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts. A pupil of the schools of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he was sent to Paris in 1880. Having studied at the Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger, he went to Barbizon and painted much in the forest of Fontainebleau under the traditions of the men of thirty. • Illustration — "May Morning", a painting by Davis In 1890, Davis returned to the U.S., settling in Mystic, Connecticut. He shifted to Impressionism in his style, and took up the cloudscapes for which he became best-known. He became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1906, and received many awards, including a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. He is represented by important works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. • Illustration — Summer Clouds
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1856
Charles Harold Davis was born in 1856 at Amesbury.
1933
Charles Harold Davis died in 1933 at New London County.
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- Davis, Charles Howard. Davis, Charles Howard [sic]. 866.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Davis, Charles Harold, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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