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Five bathers on a rocky beach with a schooner anchored close to shore.
North Country Idyll
Five bathers on a rocky beach with a schooner anchored close to shore.
Five bathers on a rocky beach with a schooner anchored close to shore.
North Country Idyll, Arthur Davies, c. 1905-1915, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

North Country Idyll

Artist (American, 1862 - 1928)
Datec. 1905 - 1915
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 26 1/8 × 39 7/8 inches (66.4 × 101.3 cm)
Framed: 31 5/8 × 45 1/2 × 1 1/8 inches (80.3 × 115.6 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor.
Object number1943.8
On View
On view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextIn New York’s early-20th-century American art world, Arthur B. Davies was an influential figure, distinguished by his originality and imagination. Davies’s enigmatic visionary landscapes are executed in soft, muted hues in a naïve but classical manner. The dreamlike allegories and idyllic themes he depicted evoke a variety of traditional historical sources and bear an affinity to works of visionary painters such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon, and other French symbolists, as well as the Americans Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ralph Blakelock, and Elihu Vedder. Davies studied extensively in prestigious art schools in both Chicago and New York. He served as president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the organization responsible for the famed 1913 Armory Show, in which Davies was the guiding force.
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