Arthur Bowen Davies

Landscape with Pigs

Early 20th Century

Oil on canvas

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Description

Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928)

This work is offered in a carved giltwood frame


The present work was originally owned by Charles A. Schieren (1842-1915), an established politician and banker in New York. Schieren immigrated from Germany in 1856 at the age of fourteen. He settled in Brooklyn and began working for his father’s cigar manufacturing business. Schieren became a prominent figure of the New York Republican Party, which culminated in his election as Mayor of Brooklyn in 1893.

Dimensions
Height: 18.25 inches / 46.36 cm
Width: 30 inches / 76.2 cm
Frame Height: 24.25 inches / 61.59 cm
Frame Width: 35.5 inches / 90.17 cm
Signature

Signed AB DAVIES (lower center) 

Condition Report

The work is unlined and the work retains the original stretchers.

The canvas is tacked to the front of the stretcher along the left and right sides.

There are frame abrasions along the extreme outer edges of the canvas is slack on its stretcher.

Under UV: There are two pindots of inpainting at center left.

Art Period
Modern
Movement/Style
Romanticism
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