Georgina A. Davis
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Georgina A. Davis was born around in New York City. She studied art at Cooper Union School of Design for Women and the Art Students' League. Her first work to receive critical attention was ''The Bridge of Sighs,'' a depiction invoking the suicidal woman from the poem of the same name by Thomas Hood, which appeared on the cover of ''The Aldine'' in 1872 and at the Women’s Pavilion at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
Davis began working for ''Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper'' around 1880. The last picture accepted by Frank Leslie before he died was by Davis. Her work there mostly depicted women's events like charities. Some significant people she depicted include President Rutherford B. Hayes and his family, Ruth Cleveland, and Ute tribal leaders. She also worked as an illustrator for the Salvation Army newspaper ''The War Cry'' and the children’s book publisher McLoughlin Brothers.
Her only known self-portrait appeared in the ''Quarterly Illustrator'' in 1894. The unusual depiction appears in the center of a gallery of photographs of the faces of male artists, while her self-portrait is a drawing with her facing away from the viewer. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Anthony M. Buckley, Ines B. Moura, Norie Arai, William Spittal, Emma Clark, Yoshihiro Nishida, Hannah C. Harris, Karen Bentley, Georgina Davis, Dapeng Wang, Suparna Mitra, Takanobu Higashiyama, Mark H. WilcoxGet full text
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2by Charmaine Normington, Ines B. Moura, Jessica A. Bryant, Duncan J. Ewin, Emma V. Clark, Morgan J. Kettle, Hannah C. Harris, William Spittal, Georgina Davis, Matthew R. Henn, Christopher B. Ford, Mark H. Wilcox, Anthony M. BuckleyGet full text
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3by Kerrie Davies, Jody Lawrence, Claire Berry, Georgina Davis, Holly Yu, Bing Cai, Elisa Gonzalez, Ida Prantner, Andrea Kurcz, Ioana Macovei, Hanna Pituch, Elena Nováková, Otakar Nyč, Barbara Gärtner, Fabian K. Berger, Monica Oleastro, Oliver A. Cornely, Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild, Louise Pedneault, Mark WilcoxGet full text
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