Cecil Davis

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  • Cecil
  • Clark
  • Davis
  • Richard Harding Davis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 18, 1864-April 11, 1916 New York, New York), journalist, war correspondent, author and playwright a “marriage blanc”; married May 4, 1899, divorced 1912
  • n/a
  • July 12, 1877
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • September 12, 1955
  • Marion, Massachusetts
  • 1912: 21 Pearson St., Chicago, Illinois

    summers and later life in Marion, Massachusetts at “

    Rio de Janiero, Brazil

    They lived a year in London, England and travelled the Congo, and South Africa.
  • Chicago, Illinois

    Marion, Massachusetts
  • Painter-Oil
  • largely self-taught; Farmington School in Connecticut; studied independently with painter Ellen Emmett Rand (cousin of Henry James;  3 months at Art Institute of Chicago; “received helpful criticism from John Singer Sargent and other painter friends”
  • England, Europe, Brazil, the Congo, and South Africa
  • Array
  • February 1-28, 1912: Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait of Miss L.C. Silver

    November 5-December 8, 1912: The Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Sculpture and Oil Paintings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait, Mrs. George Higginson, Jr.

    January 28-February 21, 1913: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait of H. Townsend Davis; Portrait, Joseph Medill Patterson

    November 14-December 25, 1913: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait, Miss Dudley

    January 22-February 1, 1914: Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Miss Waller; Miss Emily Ryerson

    March 2-31, 1914: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Mrs. Rufus Granger

    November 3-December 6, 1914: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait, Mrs. Donald Cutler

    1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California

    February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait; Portrait: Sam Sothern; Portrait: Mrs. Prescott Bigelow

    November 2-December 7, 1916: Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait: George F. Porter

    February 1-March 4, 1917: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait: Captain Roald Amundsen; Portrait: Miss Sanborn; Portrait: Miss Bradley

    November 8, 1917-January 2, 1918: Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait of Mrs. John McCutcheon

    February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Artist; Polly

    November 7, 1918-January 1, 1919: Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Col. Charles Howland

    February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Lionel Barrymore; Sam Sothern in “Dear Brutus”; Miss Thayer

    January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Night Bomber; Portrait

    January 25-February 28, 1921: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait of Sewell Gardner, oil on canvas

    November 3-December 11, 1921: Thirty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait, Mrs. D.

    November 2-December 10, 1922: Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait: Captain Lord Carnegie

    October 30-December 14, 1924: Thirty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculptures, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Mlle. d’Huisdal

    January 30-March 10, 1925: Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Portrait Mrs. B.W.

    February 4-March 14, 1926: Thirtieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Mrs. Armitage Whitman

    1912-1932: Chicago Arts Club

    1924: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri


    April 16, 1926: Decorative Painting and Sculpture by National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York


    Chicago Society of Artists exhibitions

    Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

    Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York

    National Academy of Design, New York, New York

    National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York

    Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    St. Louis, Missouri: Portrait of Mrs. Stewart

    Society of Independent Artists, New York, New York

     

     

    2011: Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists, 1840-1940, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; Eames MacVeigh, oil on canvas; Collection of Chicago History Museum
  • Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois

    The Marion Art Center, Marion, Massachusetts

    Sippican Historical Society, Marion, Massachusetts
  • Bidstrup, Wendy Todd. Cecil Clark Davis: A Self Portrait (1877-1955). 2013. Rosbe, Judith Westland. Marion Art Center. Arcadia, 2007.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois

    The Colony Club

    National Association of Women Artists

    National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors
  • March 2-31, 1914: Honorable mention Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Aritsts of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Rufus Granger

    1918: Prize for Portraiture, Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    1920:Gold Medal of the Salon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    1925: Gold Medal, Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1926: Portrait Prize, National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors,

    1932: Popular Prize, Newport Art Association, Newport

    1934: Portrait Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Richard Harding Davis Letters Concerning South Africa and the Boer War, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • page on Lighting the Way: Historic Women of the Southwest website
  • parents: wealthy Chicago industrialist John Marshall Clark (1836-1918) and Mary Louise Qua (1849-1936), a concert pianist

    Her best friend was the actress Ethel Barrymore. A good friend, and best man at her wedding, was Charles Dana Gibson, who modeled his Gibson Girl and Gibson Man after Cecil Davis and her husband.

    She stopped using “Davis” on her paintings during the 1910 estrangement, too it back up later once he expressed regret for treating her so badly.