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Jessie Davis

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Jessie Fremont Snow Davis (1887 - 1969) was active/lived in Texas.  Jessie Davis is known for Painter-landscape, portrait, mural.

Portrait and landscape painter, muralist and teacher Jessie Fremont Snow Davis (Mrs. Clifford J. Davis), 1887-1969, was born near Georgetown, Texas.  She moved to Dallas, studying there with well-known Texas art figures Frank Klepper, Frank Reaugh, John Francis Knott and Martha Simkins.  She assisted Reaugh for many years in his classes, and traveled, in 1923 and 1924, to West Texas and Colorado in Reaugh's summer sketching trips.

Moving to New York, she studied with Dimitri Romanowsky and George Brandt Bridgman at the Art Students League.  Back in Dallas, Davis taught in the evening classes of the Dallas public schools.  "A feeling of primitive simplicity, joy, and frankness," were the words a Dallas critic chose to describe her work.

Davis died in Dallas and was buried in San Angelo, Texas.

Jessie Davis was a member of the Dallas Art Association, Frank Reaugh Art Club, Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, and Klepper Sketch Club, all   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2244 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  17
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jessie Davis
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Women Artists of Texas, 1900-1960 December 2006 Grauer, Michael Yes
American Art Review Painting in Dallas October 1999 Harvey, Eleanor Jones Yes
17 Book References for Jessie Davis
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Benezit, E Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes) 0 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Grauer, Michael R and E. Harvey The Eyes of Texas: The Bill and Mary Cheek Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1959 Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies 718 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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