CLARA D. DAVIDSON Sonny (Child Seated in a Garden).
Oil on canvas, circa 1925. 510x410 mm; 20 1/4x16 1/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower center recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Davidson (1874-1962) studied at Cooper Union's Woman's Art School from 1889-93, then continued her studies at the Art Students League, New York, with Arthur Wesley Dow. She spent four years in Europe, maintaining a studio in Paris and studying with Alphonse Mucha and Jacques-Emile Blanche. Working as an illustrator upon her return to the United States, she published her work in The Saturday Evening Post and Town & Country. She is known for her figurative drawings and paintings, and exhibited at institutions such as the National Academy of Design, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, among others.
