Joseph Benjamin Davol (August 25, 1864 – June 15, 1923) was an American marine painter and art teacher. He was born in Chicago. Following art studies in Boston and New York, Davol studied in Paris at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

in 1895–96. In Paris he studies with Henri Laurens, Benjamin, and Constant. He was a student of Charles Herbert Woodbury, and lived in Ogunquit, Maine during his active years a professional painter until his death. Commissioned the building of a studio from the noted architect

John Calvin Stevens John Calvin Stevens (October 8, 1855 – January 25, 1940) was an American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style. He designed more than 1,000 buildings in the state of Maine ...

. He died in Ogunquit and his obituary appeared in the '' New York Times'' Sunday June 17, 1923. __TOC__

Exhibitions and Honors

*Member of the Salmagundi Club
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* Exhibited extensively at: * Corcoran Gallery * Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (the oldest art museum and school in the nation)
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* Silver medal winner at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco

Collections

* Portland Museum of Art, Portland, M
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* Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland ME
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Ogunquit Museum of Art
* Ogunquit Memorial Library

Bibliography

Chadbourne, Janice H. and Karl Gabosh and Charles O. Vogel, ed. ''The Boston Art Club Exhibition Record'', 1873–1909. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1991. Available through th
Boston Art Club

Images

Davol ''Beach at Ogunquit'', ca. 1915Davol Paintings In Farnsworth Collection
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