The museum's art committee overrode the winning work by the impressionist Daniel Garber and instead purchased a work by the comparatively avant-garde Arthur Bowen Davies, Meeting in the Forest (1900), a depiction of nudes in a landscape in the Symbolist style.
The museum's art committee rejected the winning artwork by Impressionist artist Daniel Garber and chose to purchase a piece by the more experimental Arthur Bowen Davies, titled "Meeting in the Forest" (1900), which depicted nude figures in a landscape inspired by Symbolist style.