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100 1 $aPerlman, Bennard B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79077187
245 14 $aThe lives, loves, and art of Arthur B. Davies /$cby Bennard B. Perlman.
260 $aAlbany, NY :$bState University of New York Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axxi, 469 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThis is the first full-length biography of the American artist Arthur B. Davies, who played a major role in twentieth-century American art's coming-of-age. It was Davies who made possible the landmark exhibitions of The Eight and The Rockwell Kent Independent, and in 1913 he emerged as the mastermind behind the Armory Show, the first large-scale display of European modern art in the United States.
520 8 $aDrawing on extensive archival research, including previously unavailable letters and diaries, this book covers the breadth and depth of the artist's life and career, from his boyhood in Utica in the 1860s; through his close association with such artists and collectors as Robert Henri, John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Lizzie Bliss, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; to his death in Italy in 1928 in the company of his mistress, with whom he had lived a secret double life as "David A.
520 8 $aOwen" for more than twenty years. Included are 101 color and black-and-white illustrations of Davies's own work, ranging from romantic dream visions to fragmented cubist forms, as well as photographs depicting his family and friends.
600 10 $aDavies, Arthur B.$q(Arthur Bowen),$d1862-1928.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142810
650 0 $aPainters$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108757
700 1 $aDavies, Arthur B.$q(Arthur Bowen),$d1862-1928.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142810
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