Aspiration

Artist Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862 - 1928)

Datec. 1895

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm), frame: 18 1/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (46 x 38.4 x 4.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.52

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Nineteenth

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Signedbottom center: A. B. DAVIES

Inscribedplaque bottom center of frame: 1963.44 Aspiration ARTHUR B. DAVIES 18862–1928 American SUMNER Collection; verso bottom right of frame: 4920 / WADSWORTH

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th Century American Galleries (110), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Arthur B. Davies: Realm of the Dream, Babcock Galleries, New York, September 14–October 23, 1998 Images of Women, Art Study Gallery, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT, October 29, 1987–March 4, 1988 Arthur B. Davies: A Chronological Retrospective, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, March 11–April 15, 1975 Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Arthur B. Davies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 17–March 30, 1930 Exhibition of Pictures by Modern American Masters, Montross Gallery, New York, April 17–May 5, 1917 Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William Macbeth Gallery, New York, March 9–21, 1896ProvenanceAlice Boughton, owned by 1930 Kraushaar Galleries, New York Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection, 1963.44, 1963–90 Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie's, New York, November 30, 1990, sale 7174, lot 175 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1991 from Babcock Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 24, 25 (fig. 20), 180 (ill., color). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 12 (no. 22). Bennard B. Perlman, The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), 64–65, 66 (ill.), 86, 282. Arthur B. Davies: Realm of the Dream (brochure) (New York: Babcock Galleries, 1998), n.p. (ill., no. 5). Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, November 30, 1990 (New York: Christie’s, 1990), 190 (ill., color, no. 175). Images of Women (brochure) (West Hartford, CT: Saint Joseph College, 1987), n.p. (no. 11). Joseph S. Czestochowski, Arthur B. Davies: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 16, 18 (ill.). Arthur B. Davies: A Chronological Retrospective (New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1975), 10 (ill., no. 3), 49 (no. 3). “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April–June, 1963,” Art Quarterly 26 (Autumn 1963): 354, 361 (ill.). Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Arthur B. Davies (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930), 3 (no. 6). Exhibition of Pictures by Modern American Masters (brochure) (New York: Montross Gallery, 1917), n.p. (no. 4). Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies (brochure) (New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1896), n.p. (no. 10).