Charles Harold Davis
(1856-1933)

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Charles Harold Davis was an American landscape painter born in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Davis moved to Boston as a young man to study at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Davis excelled in school and was advised to further his studies in Paris at the Academie Julian. In France Davis studied under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. In 1889 Davis won a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition. Davis met many of the Barbizon School painters, who he painted with in the forest of Fontainbleau. It was in France that Davis became primarily a landscape painter.

Davis returned to America in 1890 and settled in Mystic, Connecticut. Davis started painting impressionist paintings of landscapes, mostly concentrating on dramatic, cloudy skies. Davis was active in a local art colony and in 1913 he founded the Mystic Art Association.

Davis continued to travel and exhibit internationally throughout the 1920s. Davis was associated with the National Academy of Design and had many friends and painting companions through his membership with the group. Davis’s influence in painting was known throughout the northeast region of the United States.

Davis’s work in now in important museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia. Davis’s work is also in numerous private collections in the United States. Do you think you own a painting by Charles Harold Davis? Contact us. We are the Charles Harold Davis experts.