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Clara Davidson (1874 - 1962)

Summer Marshes
oil on board
Born in St. Louis, at the age of fifteen Clara Davidson was living in Brooklyn and enrolled at Cooper Union, then at the Art Students League whree she studied with Arthur Wesley Dow. She then spent four years in Paris, studying with Alphonse Mucha and Jacques-Emil Blanche. William Merritt Chase was her mentor and friend. Davidson was a regular exhibitor at the National Academy, the National Association of Women Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy, and the Society of Independent Artists. In 1917 she settled in Norwalk, CT and was a member of the Silvermine Art Colony there.