The Shadow of a Dame

As a member of “The Eight,” an influential group of avant-garde artists, which also included John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks, and William Glackens, Davies was an early advocate and practitioner of American Modernism. He was the primary organizer of the landmark 1913 Armory Show, often credited with introducing European avant-garde art to the U.S. After 1900, Davies focused on the world of poetic, allegorical and dreamlike landscapes, such as this ethereal moonlit painting, far removed from the realities of urban life.