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Exhibition History“The Long Island Landscape, 1865-1914: The Halcyon Years,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, July 26 – September 20, 1981.
“Two Artists from Port Jefferson: William M. Davis and Leon Foster Jones,” Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, September 12 – December 26, 1993.
“Le Peinture Americaine: 1830-1900,” Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 16 – October 30, 2014.
BibliographyPisano, Ronal G., Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820-1920 (New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co., 1985), pp. 21, 23, ill.
Sonenberg, Nina, Art of the State of New York: The Spirit of America (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1998), p. 42, ill.
Goyne, Nancy, "From Craft Shop to Countinghouse: The Interaction of Woodworkers and Allied Artisans with the Business Community in the Late Colonial and Federal Periods," in American Furniture 2020, ed. Luck Beckerdite; the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee 2021.
Artist
William M. Davis
(1829 - 1920)
Cider Making on Long Island
Datec. 1870
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 19 13/16 × 30 × 2 1/4 in. (50.3 × 76.2 × 5.7 cm)
Sight: 16 1/2 × 26 3/4 in. (41.9 × 67.9 cm)
Object numberN0368.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextBorn in Setauket in 1829, Davis was a sailor and apprentice shipbuilder before achieving recognition in his thirties as a talented painter. The 1860s marked his public debut in New York, where he exhibited politically-themed genre paintings to wide acclaim at the National Academy of Design and Brooklyn Art Association. The decade also marked the start of a friendship between the young artist and William Sidney Mount. In this painting, Davis captures a nostalgic scene of a traditional chore done throughout the rural northeast.Exhibition History“The Long Island Landscape, 1865-1914: The Halcyon Years,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, July 26 – September 20, 1981.
“Two Artists from Port Jefferson: William M. Davis and Leon Foster Jones,” Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, September 12 – December 26, 1993.
“Le Peinture Americaine: 1830-1900,” Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 16 – October 30, 2014.
BibliographyPisano, Ronal G., Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820-1920 (New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co., 1985), pp. 21, 23, ill.
Sonenberg, Nina, Art of the State of New York: The Spirit of America (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1998), p. 42, ill.
Goyne, Nancy, "From Craft Shop to Countinghouse: The Interaction of Woodworkers and Allied Artisans with the Business Community in the Late Colonial and Federal Periods," in American Furniture 2020, ed. Luck Beckerdite; the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee 2021.
On View
On view
c. 1885-1887
c. 1889-1910
c. 1900
