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Davidson, Abraham Aba was born on June 27, 1935 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Isaac and Ruth (Feinsilver) Davidson.
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While Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) appears in every major survey of American art, no current books exist on his life and work. In this comprehensive study, Abraham Davidson argues convincingly that Blakelock is one of the greatest American painters of the nineteenth century, whose art ranges from the romantic visionary school reminiscent of Albert Pinkham Ryder to, later in his tragic life, a more realistic, physically experimental style often touching on abstraction. Davidson examines the haunting influences of Blakelock's visits to the American West and the Caribbean while a young man, reflected in his strikingly original landscapes. He also explores Blakelock's connections to various American movements, including the Hudson River School, the Barbizon School, and Tonalism, and discusses the works he produced while institutionalized for schizophrenia for much of the last twenty years of his life. More than150 black-and-white and color illustrations reproduce many of Blakelock's paintings for the first time. Drawing upon previously inaccessible biographical materials, including family letters and the artist's travel notes, Davidson pays special attention to the pre- and post-1880s and 1890s periods of Blakelock's work, practically unknown until this study. Despite being confined to an asylum in 1899, he continued to paint amazingly diverse landscapes on bits of cardboard or paper, often with brushes fashioned from bits of tree bark or his own hair. These later works attest above all to Blakelock's quiet, almost joyous attention to nature. . . . and evoke the places and vistas that sustained him, enabling him to pursue and even develop his vision, despite the odds (New York Times). This important book restores Blakelock to his rightful place as a major contributor to the art of his period and to the development of American painting in general.
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Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keefe, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz and Max Weber are some of the seminal artists discussed and contextualised in this account of one of the most fascinating periods in American painting.
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Davidson, Abraham Aba was born on June 27, 1935 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Isaac and Ruth (Feinsilver) Davidson.
Bachelor of Arts in City Planning cum laude, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957. Postgraduate, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1957—1958. Master of Arts in Art History, Boston University, 1960.
Bachelor in Jewish Education, Hebrew Teachers College, Boston, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Columbia University, New York City, 1965.
Visiting lecturer art history, U. Iowa, 1963-1964;
instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1964-1965;
assistant professor, Oakland U., Rochester, Michigan, 1965-1968;
member of faculty, Tyler School Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1968;
professor art history, Tyler School Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1975. Visiting assistant professor of University Massachusetts, Amherst, summers 1965-1967, U. Colorado, summer1968. Thomas P. Johnson distinguished visiting scholar Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1997.
Consultant Burlington County Community College, Pemberton, New Jersey, 1976-1977.
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