211:. She spoke affectionately of Norton, who "taught me to look, to see, really to use my eyes. He showed me the vast difference between the actual distortion of reality and the 'pretty' distortion of the average point of view." She praised the Art Institute of Chicago, not only for its teaching, but also for having a museum where the students could compare their work with the works of masters. Rockmore graduated in 1920 and went on to work as an artist in advertising and fashion for the next eleven years. Davis’ artwork appeared in several major fashion catalogs over the next few years, including
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167:(May 11, 1901 – February 16, 1967) was an American artist who worked in both commercial and fine arts. She gave up a career in advertising art to work in creative painting. Her work in pastels ranks with her oils, and her chief subjects are children, nudes, and still lifes. She also painted ballet dancers, vignettes of liberated Paris, and scenes of Spain. An art critic once called Davis "the ten-year wonder of United States art". Her husband
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Born in New York City, on May 11, 1901, Gladys
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She won other prizes from museums throughout the country, and in 1941 she gave her first one-man show at the Rehn
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New York legal practice for 6 months for “inappropriately reflecting on the character of a New York
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concentrated on the wartime city with
American soldiers in force, while she painted familiar and nostalgic scenes of the City of Light. Reviewing the show, which was exhibited in the foyer of the
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had come to the attention of the New York art world and was considered a rising young star. He won many awards and gained critical acclaim.
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Christmas Issue in 1947. Her artwork was converted to a wearable silk by The
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store windows. Davis worked inside the store sketching ballerinas; she gave her drawings away to persons who purchased $ 100
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magazine to paint liberated Paris in 1944 and 1945. She narrowly escaped death in a German strafing of
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