Randall Davey was born in New Jersey in 1887 and as a young man moved to New York to become an artist. Randall Davey began studies under Robert Henri first at the New York School of Art in 1908 and later, at Henri's own school, studying along side other important artists such as George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent and Stuart Davis.1 Robert Henri was an important American artist and influential teacher espousing the merits of painting the urban scenes of America as they actually were, not the idealized views that many painters of the day produced. Come to be known as the Ashcan ...
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