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Oaklander, Christine. "Clara Davidge and Henry Fitch Taylor: Pioneering Promoters and Creators of American Modernist Art," Department of Art History, University of Delaware, June 1999.
The early modernist movement in American Art was charged with intellectual excitement and creativity. Although we have many publications about this dynamic era, scholars have overlooked two of its key figures; Clara Davidge and Henry Fitch Taylor. This study explores the Taylors’ own creativity and their campaign to promote modern art in America. In 1884, Taylor traveled to Paris and enrolled at the Academie Julian. In 1887, he became one of the first Americans to adopt Impressionism under Monet’s influence. Back in New York, in 1889 Taylor exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists. By 1898, however, he had left the New York art scene for Cos Cob, Connecticut, where a colony of artists had gathered around his colleague John Henry Twachtman. In 1909, Taylor returned to New York as manager of the new Madison Art Gallery, founded by interior decorator Clara Davidge as a much-needed forum for young, nonacademic American artists.
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