Davies, Arthur B(owen) (1862-1928), American painter. He was born in Utica, New York, and educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York City. His early canvases, such as Along the Erie Canal (1890, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.), were small landscapes. After returning from travels in Europe, he painted larger, delicate romantic landscapes with imaginary figures, such as Leda and the Dioscuri (1905, Art Institute of Chicago). He belonged to The Eight, later known as the Ashcan school, a group of antiacademic painters, and was chief organizer of the Armory Show of 1913 in New York City, which introduced modern art to Americans. An experimenter with cubism, he designed tapestries for the Gobelins factory in Paris. Although not a realist, Davies was associated with the realist painters in the circle of Robert Henri.