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Arthur Bowen Davies
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928.
==Biography==
Davies was born in Utica, New York.〔Biographical information for this entry is taken from Bennard B. Perlman and Brooks Wright.〕 He was keenly interested in drawing when he was young and, at fifteen, attended a large touring exhibition in his hometown of American landscape art, featuring works by George Inness and members of the Hudson River School. The show had a profound effect on him. He was especially impressed by Inness's tonalist landscapes.〔Perlman, p. 7.〕 After his family relocated to Chicago, Davies studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882 and briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago, before moving to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League. He worked as a magazine illustrator before devoting himself to painting.
In 1892, Davies married Virginia Meriwether, one of New York State's first female physicians. Her family, suspecting that their daughter might end by being the sole breadwinner of the family if she was to marry an impoverished artist, insisted that the bridegroom sign a prenuptial agreement, renouncing any claim on his wife's money in the event of divorce. (Davies would eventually become very wealthy through the sale of his paintings, though his prospects at thirty did not look enccouraging.) Appearances notwithstanding, they were anything but a conventional couple, even aside from the fact that Davies was of a philandering nature. Virginia had eloped when she was young and had murdered her husband on her honeymoon when she discovered that he was an abusive drug addict and compulsive gambler, a fact that she and her family kept from Davies.〔Perlman, p. 45.〕
An urbane man with a formal demeanor, Arthur B. Davies was "famously diffident and retiring".〔Kimberly Orcutt, "The Problem of Arthur B. Davies" in Elizabeth Kennedy (ed.), ''The Eight and American Modernisms,'' p. 23.〕 He would rarely invite anyone to his studio and, later in life, would go out of his way to avoid old friends and acquaintances.〔"The Death of Arthur B. Davies" in Daniel Catton Rich (ed.), ''The Flow of Art: Essays and Criticisms of Henry McBride'' (New York: Atheneum, 1975), pp. 247-249.〕 The reason for Davies' reticence became known after his sudden death while vacationing in Italy in 1928: he had two wives (one legal, one common-law) and children by each of them, a secret kept from Virginia for twenty-five years.
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