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Randall Davey

Randall Davey, American, (1887-1964).



Randall Davey was born in, New Jersey in 1887, and was raised in a comfortable, middle-class home.
After graduating from high school, he wished to pursue art as a career, but instead
followed his father's wishes to attend college. He entered the liberal arts program at Cornell
University but left in 1908, without finishing his studies and moved to New York to become an artist.

Davey entered the New York School of Art and began studies under Robert Henri. The next year,
when Henri left the school to found his own, Davey continued his work with Charles Hawthorne,
who by then had taken over Henri's classes. Hawthorne had an inclination for exploring the psyche
of his subjects, a tendency that Davey was to follow in his own work.

Davey specialized in portraiture. Like Hawthorne, he enjoyed discovering the character of his sitter.
Fundamentally, however, Davey's painting style was more like that of Henri, and soon Davey left the
New York School of Art to study with Henri, and along side other important artists such as George
Bellows and Stuart Davis. In 1910, he exhibited at the group exhibition of Independent Artists,
and later toured Europe with Henri.

In 1911, he traveled with Henri and Bellows to Maine, and the next year he was appointed assistant
instructor in Henri's summer painting classes in Spain. Davey exhibited one painting at the highly
influential Armory Show in 1913 in New York. 1915 was a banner year for the artist; he won the
National Academy of Design's Second Hallgarten Prize, and an honorable mention at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition. He participated in the founding of The Society of Independent Artists in 1916, and
spent the summer painting in Gloucester, MA with John Sloan and his "Red Cottage Artists",
Alice Beach Winter,  Charles Allan Winter  and  Agnes Richmond.  The painting on exhibit here
was completed by Randall Davey during this time, one of several portraits capturing the spirit of the
children of local Gloucester residents.


Additional information on John Sloan's "Red Cottage Artists" was first published in
The Gallery Fall 2007 section of the Antiques and The Arts Weekly, October 12, 2007.

Additional Credit: Columbus Museum-Georgia


"Anthony"
Signed, lower right, and inscribed en verso.
Oil on canvas. 24" x 20"



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