MARCH FINE ESTATES CHARLESTON
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Julyan Davis (b.1965) Oil on Panel Marsh Study. Professionally framed at the Gallery. Panel 8"x10". In frame 14"x12.25"x1". Weight 1 lb 10 oz. Davis received a BA degree in painting and printmaking from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. He has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and the United States. In 1988, Julyan Davis left art school in London to follow a lost piece of history: the story of Napoleonic exiles in the canebrakes of the Deep South. A brief adventure became a lifetime?s career as an American painter capturing the vanishing South Davis?s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Asheville Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, SC), Greenville Museum of Art (SC), Morris Museum (GA), among many other public and private collections. Julyan currently works from his studio in North Carolina.Parallel to his landscape paintings, Davis has made large-scale narrative work based on forgotten histories and folklore. These shows have toured museums in collaboration with musicians, storytellers and historians. Davis?s debut novel ?A History of Saints? (set in Asheville during the Great Recession of 2008) won the Foreword Indies 2021 gold award for humor and was a semifinalist for the 2022 Thurber Prize in American Humor.
Condition: excellent
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