Kudos for Ken

“... we focus on people who are really making it happen, not on those who hire public relations geniuses to proclaim that they are. We find true artists – including, ... Ken Davies – not the phonies who pass every month through the art world’s sausage grinder.”

Thomas Hoving, Editor-in-Chief, Connoisseur Magazine, and Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

“Ken Davies has proved himself in a career now extending over half a century as one of the nation’s finest still-life specialists.”

“They [his paintings] are also, in my opinion, enduring works of art – pictures which will not only continue, always, to excite and give pleasure, but which will ultimately be seen as continuing the tradition of artistry harking back beyond the academic doctrines to the Renaissance and Antiquity. It is my belief that such paintings as these will endure far longer than the brilliantly eccentric but ultimately dead-end (and probably disintegrating) stuffed goats and mussed beds of a Robert Rauschenberg, and certainly than the meaningless parodist creations of an Andy Warhol. Davies’s pictures are, in fact, what art is all about.”

William Gerdts, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Graduate School of the City University of New York.

“... is widely recognized today as one of the foremost still-life painters in America. To the long tradition of his native place, he brings a wholly new dimension. His subjects are very much his own, carefully organized and precisely rendered. So, too, is the mastery with which he brings us familiar objects freshly seen. His impish wit lies close to the surface; his confidence in his craft is everywhere apparent.”

“Assuredly part of the tradition of realistic still-life painting, Ken Davies has enlarged its boundaries and taken it to new levels of interest and accomplishment.”

Richard C. Kugler, Director Emeritus of The New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA.

“... is distinctly an artist in a great American tradition.”

Alfred Frankenstein, Art Historian and author of After the Hunt

“... is an excellent painter, among the best in the trompe l’oeil tradition.”

Charles Cunningham, Director Emeritus of The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.

“... is a magician in his chosen field.”

Charles Ferguson, Director Emeritus of the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.