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Arthur Bowen Davies American, 1863-1928 Home Signed A. B. Davies (ll) Oil on canvas 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches Provenance: Lillie P. Bliss, New York On loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 17-Sept. 27, 1931 by bequest to the Science Museum of Minnesota (formerly St. Paul Institute), MN, 1931-62 On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, 1931-59 Deaccessioned to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1962-2004 Exhibited: New York, Museum of Modern Art, Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lizzie P. Bliss, May 17-Sept. 27, 1931, no. 29, p. 22 Literature: Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lizzie P. Bliss. Exh. cat. New York: The Plandome Press in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1931, p. 22, no. 29 Home belongs to the intimate views of family life created by Davies primarily in the mid-1890s. His subject in this painting is the interior of his home in Congers, New York. His wife, Virginia (a medical doctor on the staff of the New York Infant Asylum), holds one of the couple's two children (either Niles, born 1893; or Arthur David, born 1895). The young girls in the painting are two of the three daughters of Virginia's widowed sister, Mattie Betts, who moved into the Davies household in 1893. Following in the tradition of the family portrait, this image includes symbols of domestic contentment-art, music, flowers, and a view of an expansive countryside out the window-yet Davies brought to it an intriguing modern quality of detachment. The first owner of this painting was the noted art patron Lillie P. Bliss, whose collection formed the basis of the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art. Home's purchase by Bliss reflects her eye for iconic art that was cutting edge in its day. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art