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Details
- Dimensions
- 8ʺW × 0.13ʺD × 10ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Traditional
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1910s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Cardboard
- Gouache
- Watercolor
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Design Modified, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Peach
- Condition Notes
- paper laid down on card; uneven edges, toning, mat burn, minor restoration; unframed; shows well. paper laid down on card; uneven edges, toning, mat burn, minor restoration; unframed; shows well. less
- Description
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Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'.
Bearing old framing label: … more Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'.
Bearing old framing label: Ferguson Art Shop, Flint, Michigan
Born in Crewe, England, Arthur Dawson studied first as Kensington School and, subsequently, under David Law and William Morris in London. Dawson moved to America in 1887 and kept a studio in Chicago for ten years. During his time in Chicago, he joined the Chicago Municipal Art Society and was a founding member of the Chicago Society of Artists. Dawson was also a member of the Artist's Fund Society, Lotos Club and Authors' Club (London). In 1898, he was in charge of the restoration of paintings at the New York Public Library and at West Point, where he was also the official portrait painter. He exhibited widely and with success including at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1898, 1902), the Pan-Am Expo, Buffalo, New York (1901, prize), the Society of Independent Artists (1917) and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 849; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 306; et al. less
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