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William Robert Davis

William Robert Davis (Born 1952) is active/lives in Massachusetts.  William Davis is known for Luminist marine and landscape painting.

William R. Davis is noted as a marine painter.  He grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.  He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water.   He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminist painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects.

In 1987, Davis had the first one artist show ever mounted at the Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut.  All twenty of the works featured in that show were sold at the opening reception. In 1990, he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence, and his painting entitled Calm Day Off Latimer's Reef appeared on the cover of Mystic's The Art of the Sea Calendar in 1993.  Three of his paintings were also used in the book Shipwrecks Around Boston by Cape Cod author, William P. Quinn.   Rockport Publishers has included Boston Harbor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3631 characters.]  Artist bio

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