Davies
Davies names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Davies SIR LOUIS HENRY, a Canadian lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR LOUIS HENRY, a Canadian lawyer. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1845; and was educated at Prince of Wales College. He became a barrister in 1867; Solicitor-General, 1869 and 1871-1872; Leader of the Opposition, 1873-1876; Premier and Attorney-General, Prince Edward Island, 1876-1879; and Q. C., 1880. In 1882 he was elected to the Dominion House of Commons, and was re-elected until his appointment to Appeal Court. He was counsel for Great Britain before the International Fisheries Arbitration at Halifax in 1877 between Great Britain and the United States. He became P. C., Canada, in 1896; Joint Delegate to Washington with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1897, on Behring Sea seal question; one of Joint High Commissioners in 1898 for settlement of differences between United States and Canada; Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Canada, 1896-1901. From 1918 he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (Appeal).
Davies RANDALL, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RANDALL, an English author, born in 1866, and educated at Bradfield (Founder's Boy) and Scoones'. He was for a time Art Critic to the "Academy", "Westminster Gazette", "New Statesman," and "Queen," and also reviewed for the "Burlington," "Athenæum," "Saturday Review" and other periodicals. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1898, and later came to the United States where he was for some years Confidential Secretary to Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York "World." His works include: "Chelsea Old Church"; "Portfolio Monograph"; "Six Centuries of Painting"; "Stories of the English Artists"; "The Greatest House at Chelsea"; "A Lyttel Booke of Nonsense"; "Monographs on Velasquez, Reynolds, and Romney."
Davies ARTHUR B., an American painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR B., an American painter, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1862. He began his work as an illustrator of magazines. He first achieved fame as a painter at an exhibition held in New York in 1899. His best paintings are found in the Brooklyn Museum. Among these is the "Children of Yesteryear," considered by many to be his best work. Among his other masterpieces are "The Girdle of Ares," (1914); "Visions of the Sea" (1911); "The Hunter of the Star Lands". His recent paintings show a decided cubist tendency.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught all three men in 1921 while they were still working, and all three died within a generation: Sir Louis Henry Davies served as Chief Justice of Canada until his death in 1924, Arthur B. Davies died at Florence in 1928, and Randall Davies lived until 1946. The oddest gap is in the painter's entry, which praises "Children of Yesteryear" and notes only "a decided cubist tendency" while saying nothing of the one thing Arthur B. Davies is now remembered for — as president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors he was the driving organiser of the 1913 Armory Show in New York, the exhibition that introduced Cezanne, Matisse and Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" to the American public. After his death it also emerged that Davies had kept a second household in New York under an assumed name, a fact no 1921 reference book could have printed. Sir Louis Davies's fisheries and Bering Sea work, by contrast, reads much as it did.
Written for this edition, 2026.