biography of Randall DAVEY (1887-1964)

Birth place: East Orange, NJ

Addresses: NYC; Santa Fe, NM

Profession: Painter, etcher, lithographer, educator

Studied: ASL; Cornell Univ., 1905-07 (architecture); in Europe; with Robert Henri at N.Y. Sch. A. and the Henri Sch.

Exhibited: Armory Show, 1913; PAFA, 1913-49; NAD, 1914-50 (prize, 1915); AIC; Salons of Am.; WMAA; S.Indp.A.; Grand Central Gal, 1939 (prize).

Member: ANA, 1937; NA, 1938; Nat. Assn. Port. P.; Painters-Gravers Soc.; Taos SA, 1922; New Mexico SA.

Work: AIC; CGA; WMAA; Montclair Art Mus.; Kansas City AI; CMA; Detroit Inst. Art; Mus. of NM, Santa Fe; U.S. Navy Dept.; WPA murals, USPO, Vinita, Claremore, OK; Will Roger's Shrine, Colorado Springs, CO.

Comments: Painted with George Bellows in 1911 on Monhegan Island, Maine. Davey was one of the early members of the Santa Fe art colony in 1919, and specialized in painting horses. He died in a car crash near Baker, California. Teaching: AIC,1920; Kansas City AI, 1921-24; Broadmoor AA, 1924-31; Univ. New Mexico,1945-46.

Sources: WW59; WW47; P&H Samuels, 124-25; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 166, 181; Falk, Exh. Record Series.