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William Robert Davis

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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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   Publications  Book References:  6
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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Robert Davis
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection October 2010 Hunter, Elizabeth Ives Fisher Yes
Fine Art Connoisseur New American Luminists: Light on Land and Sea April 2006 Wolf, Rachel Yes
Southwest Art Yosemite Artists November 2001 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Art of the West Capturing the Grandeur of Yosemite September 2001 Stavig, Vicki Yes
American Artist Making the Landscape Your Own April 2001 Doherty, M. Stephen Yes
American Artist An Overview of Marine Art April 2000 Jinishian, J. Russell Yes
American Artist Organizing Reference Material March 2000 Price, Linda S. Yes
6 Book References for William Robert Davis
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
2004 Haggin Museum of Art From Sea to Shining Sea
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
2003 Editor, Gallery Exhibition Small Works, Holiday Exhibition:
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 Yes
1998 Baird, Julian The New American Luminists: Revisit the Native Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 25 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
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