biografia di Gerald Vivian DAVIS (1899-1987)
Birth place: Brooklyn, NY
Addresses: Summit, NJ
Profession: Painter, educator
Studied: …cole des Beaux Arts, Paris; Académie Julian, Paris with Dechenard & Royer; Acad Grande Chaumière, Paris
Exhibited: AIC; London; Copenhagen; Paris Salon, 1929-39; Salon d'Automne, 1930-39; Soc. Gr. A., London, 1938, 1939; AWCS, 1941, 1942, 1946; All. A. Am., 1940, 1941; Montclair A. Mus.; Riverside Mus.; Princeton; Marquie Gal., 1941 (solo); Art Inst Chicago, 1928; Soc Nat Beaux Arts & Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1939; Nat Acad Design, New York, NY, 1940, 1941, 1946; Kansas City Nelson Art Mus, 1951; Trenton Art Mus & Newark Mus, 1968; plus many other group & solo shows. Awards: Contemp New Jersey Artists, 1960; New Jersey State Show, East Orange Art Ctr, 1968 & Summit Art Ctr, 1969.
Member: Assoc, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts & Salon National Independents, both in Paris; New Jersey AA; New Jersey WC Soc.; SC.
Work: Many works in private collections around the world. Commissions: Portrait of Pres. of Danish Eng., Soc. Danish Eng., Copenhagen, 1938; portrait of Rev. Dr. Clayton Williams, American Church in Paris, France, 1940; portrait of Dr. Knutson, Dir. Watkins Hosp., Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, 1951; painting, Univ. Kansas Dept. Archit., 1951; Summit & Copenhagen Hospitals, Overlook Hospital Summit, City Hospital Copenhagen, 1965 & 1969.
Comments: Preferred Media: Oils, Gouache, Charcoal, Pastels, Inks. Teaching: Univ Illinois, Champaign, 1925-28; Univ Kansas, 1947-51.
Sources: WW73; WW47.