Study for "Stars and Dews and Dreams of Night"

c. 1927

Arthur B. Davies

Artist, American, 1862 - 1928

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and chalk on wove paper mounted to board

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Robert Halsband)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 45.4 × 33.66 cm (17 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
    board: 50.17 × 36.83 cm (19 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1005

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Durlacher Brothers, New York); Robert Halsband, New York, 1961; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1962; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • American Drawings, 1900-1956, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1957

2004

  • Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004-2005

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 126, no. 849.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Arthur B. Davies

Wikidata ID

Q64536507

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