The Art of Thyra Davidson

By Daniel E. Wexler

Thyra Davidson, a native of Brooklyn, studied art at the National Academy and the Brooklyn Art Museum. After marrying the artist George Wexler, she moved to East Lansing, Michigan then to New Paltz, New York where her husband was hired as a teacher in the college's art department. Thyra started out as an abstract painter but transitioned in the early 1960's to sculpture. Eschewing abstraction, she embraced a personal form of realism that was highly unusual at the time and even today is outside the mainstream. Most of her sculpture is portraiture and figurative, but she also focused on still life, a rarity for the medium. In the 1980s, she added pastel to her body of work as well as pencil drawing and in a return to her roots, oil painting. As of this writing she is 97 years old and continues to work with pastels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C5PG8YS4
• ISBN13: 9798395398185
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"