Twelve Men
Arthur B. Davies
1921
Medium
lithograph with lithotint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 36.2 × 33.02 cm (14 1/4 × 13 in.) sheet: 55.88 x 37.47 cm (22 x 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David P. Tunick
Accession Number
2009.127.18
About the Artist
Arthur B. Davies · 1862–1928
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928) occupies one of the most paradoxical positions in American art history: a painter whose own canvases were lyrical, dreamlike, and rooted in the classical tradition, yet whose organizational energy and curatorial vision helped force American audiences into direct confrontation with the European avant-garde. Born on 26 September 1862 in Utica, New York, to English and...