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 overruled the winning work by the impressionist Daniel Garber and instead purchased a piece by the avant-garde Arthur Bowen Davies, Meeting in the Forest (1900), a depiction of nude figures in a landscape in the Symbolist style.