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ANDREW CURTIN DAVIS (AMERICAN, 1853-1915)
Pastoral Landscape with Cows
Oil on artist panel | Signed lower right "A. Curtin Davis"
Item # 103VNK23L
A very fine and brilliantly impressionistic pastoral landscape view of two cows grazing in the countryside, the work is executed on an artist panel with tracing of an interior scene study verso. The work was executed by the Pennsylvania and Maryland artist Andrew Cutin Davis and is housed in a hand-carved giltwood frame of fine quality. Signed lower right, it remains in pristine original condition.
ARTIST
Andrew Curtin Davis was born in New Paris, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 12, 1853 to John Wesley Davis and Sarah “Catherine” Snook. He was a well- and widely-known artist and painter. He sketched comic pictures for comic magazines while also focusing on painting genre scenes and landscapes. He traveled and painted scenes in England, France, Egypt and the Holy Land in addition to his local studies. Furthermore, he carved and gilded many of his own frames and exhibited many of his paintings in these. He died Mar. 5, 1915 in Cumberland, MD and was buried in the Bedford Cemetery. (Source: Mar. 12, 1915 Bedford Gazette obituary)
Measurements: 18" H x 24" W [panel]; 25" H x 29 3/4" W [frame]
Condition Report:
Professionally conserved, cleaned and sealed in a fresh Damar varnish. Remains in exquisite original condition. Under UV examination apparently free of inpainting. A fine hand-carved giltwood frame with age-related wear and gilt loss.