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  Harold Christopher Davies, “Pacific seascape”, Oil on canvas c. 1915

  HAROLD CHRISTOPHER DAVIES (1891 – 1976) USA

  Pacific seascape c.1915

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: HHG #4010, Hoover Gallery, 1681 Folson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (on wooden stretcher), the estate mark of the Harold Christopher Davies estate is on the reverse of the canvas

  Exhibited: Hoover Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1975

  For more information: Harold Christopher Davies 1891-1976: A Retrospective Exhibition (Stockton, CA: The Haggin Museum, 1982); Susan Landauer: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA and London, UK: University of California Press, Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1996)p. 8;Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980: An Illustrated History (Berkeley, CA: University California Press, 1985)

  H: 16” x W: 20”

  Framed: H: 27 11/16” x W: 23 5/8”

  Born in Seattle, WA on May 26, 1891, the Davies family moved to Cherrydale, VA when Harold was an infant. Davies began his formal art education at the age of fourteen, enrolling in the Corcoran Art Institute in Washington, D.C.  Later he continued his studies at the San Francisco Institute of Art.

  The talent of Harold Christopher Davies was evident in his early California Impressionist landscapes such as this Pacific Ocean seascape which demonstrates his remarkable use of color and the bravura of his brushstrokes. An Abstract Expressionist, his later works are similar to those of De Kooning and Hans Hofmann. Harold Christopher Davies was a member of the Oakland Art League, the San Francisco Art Association and the Huntsville (Ala.) Art Association.

   After living in a variety of cities around the United States, Davies moved to Inverness, California in 1969 where he was free to devote all his time to his art.

   

  Exhibitions:

  San Francisco Art Association, 1921-1931

  Oakland Art Gallery, 1931

  Birmingham Museum, 1951

  Southampton Museum, 1959

  University of Long Island Museum, 1964

  Parrish Art Museum, 1964, 1966, 1967

  Hoover Gallery (San Francisco), 1975

  Fresno Art Center, 1976 (Solo)

  Haggin Museum, 1982

  Huntsville Museum, 1982