Aurora Arc / LL "Leonard M. Davis"
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 5
Scope and Contents
Ultramarine-blue landscape and sky with brushy white double aurora arcing across the sky.
Dates
- unknown
Creator
- Davis, Leonard Moore, 1864-1938 (Person)
Biographical sketch
Davis was an American landscape artist, who painted extensively in Canada, Alaska and the west coast. He left hundreds of paintings at the American Museum of Natural History and it took the Museum many years to return the majority of them, to his heirs. Davis was born in Winchendon, Mass. and died in Tarzana, Calif.
Extent
1 Object : painting : oil on canvas ; 24 x 36 inches
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Davis, Leonard, 1929.
General Note
Alberta, Canada.
General Note
See curatorial files for artist correspondence.
General Note
Created by palette knife.
General Note
Condition: Dirty, warped (0).
General Note
Exhibitions note: 4/16/1928 - 5/12/1928"Mystic North". AMNH.
Creator
- Davis, Leonard Moore, 1864-1938 (Person)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Sponsor
- The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided support to make this finding aid available in ArchivesSpace (2016-2017).
Repository Details
Part of the Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library Repository
Contact:
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York NY 10024 USA
(212) 769-5420
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American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York NY 10024 USA
(212) 769-5420
[email protected]
