Artwork
The Umbrian Mountains
The Umbrian Mountains is an oil painting by the American Impressionist artist Arthur B. Davies. It dates from 1925 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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- Inscribed:lower left: A B DAVIES
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Technique & Style
Created in 1925, The Umbrian Mountains is an oil painting executed on a canvas support.
Created in 1925, The Umbrian Mountains is an oil painting executed on a canvas support. The work measures 65.72 cm in height and 101.28 cm in width. As an oil-on-canvas piece by Arthur B. Davies, it adheres to traditional painterly methods of the early twentieth century.
The physical object has remained in major institutional collections since its acquisition by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1928, later transferring to the National Gallery of Art in 2015.
History & Provenance
Arthur B. Davies created The Umbrian Mountains in 1925 as an oil on canvas painting. The work was first held by the Ferargil Gallery in New York before being purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in October 1928. The Corcoran retained ownership until 2015, when the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. acquired the piece.
The painting measures 65.72 cm in height and 101.28 cm in width. It remains part of the National Gallery of Art's collection today.
Painted in 1925, The Umbrian Mountains entered the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., following its purchase from the Ferargil Gallery in New York in October 1928. The work remained with the Corcoran until 2015, at which point it was acquired by the National Gallery of Art, also located in Washington, D.C., where it is currently held.
Specific inventory or accession numbers for the painting are not provided in the available records. Furthermore, while the ownership history is documented, there is no information regarding the work's exhibition history.
Context
Arthur Bowen Davies painted The Umbrian Mountains in 1925 as an oil on canvas work. The painting entered the Ferargil Gallery in New York before being acquired by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in October 1928, and it was transferred to the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2015. Critical reception is not documented in the provided sources, and no scholarly analysis or historical context beyond provenance and acquisition details are available.
Legacy
Arthur Bowen Davies created The Umbrian Mountains in 1925, an oil on canvas painting that entered the Corcoran Gallery of Art collection in October 1928 and was later acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 2015. The work has been recognized as part of Davies' significant contributions to American modernism and continues to be featured in major institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Overview
Created in 1925, The Umbrian Mountains is an oil on canvas work by American painter Arthur B. Davies. Executed during the later phase of his career, the piece belongs to the broader current of American Impressionism, reflecting Davies’s interest in translating European landscape motifs into a distinctly domestic visual language.
Subject & Meaning
The canvas presents a tranquil countryside scene: gentle hills rise toward distant mountains beneath a clear blue sky dotted with soft white clouds. In the foreground, trees frame a meadow or cultivated field, suggesting a quiet, pastoral environment that invites contemplation of nature’s calm rhythms.
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Artist
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928.
