The Great Mother

c. 1913

Arthur B. Davies

Painter, American, 1862 - 1928

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Macbeth Galleries, New York). Lizzie P. Bliss [1864-1931], New York; bequest April 1931 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1914

  • Special Exhibition: Modern Departures in Painting; "Cubism," "Futurism," Etc., Cincinnati Museum, 19 March - 5 April 1914, no. 1.

1918

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Etchings & Sculpture by Arthur B. Davies, Macbeth Galleries, New York, 2-31 January 1918, no. 31.

1930

  • Special Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Arthur B. Davies, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1-25 May 1930, no. 63.

1962

  • Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928): A Centennial Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Cincinnati Art Museum; City Art Musuem of Saint Louis; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1962-1963, no. 54.

1975

  • 15 American Artists from the Corcoran: an Exhibition of American 20th C. Works from the Permanent Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, London Art Gallery, Ontario, 4 April - 6 May 1975, no. 2, repro.

1977

  • Themes in American Painting, Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1-30 November 1977, no. 83.

1981

  • Dream Visions: The Work of Arthur B. Davies, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Phillips Collection, Washington, 1981-1982.

2001

  • Arthur B. Davies: Dweller on the Threshold, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 17 June -9 Septemeber 2001, no. 21.

2004

  • Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004 - 7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 236, 293, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46633255


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