David T. Darling has been described as a painter, muralist, printmaker, book illustrator and teacher yet very little of his life can be documented. According to several sources, Darling studied for several years in France, first in Nice and then in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi. His works were exhibited in the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris. After his return to the United States, Darling was included in an exhibition of watercolors at the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York and he eventually moved to 46 Washington Square in Manhattan.

Darling accomplished his water-graph technique by using as many as eight stencils to obtain the outlines of his image and then applied watercolor with a dry brush to create ethereal gradations of color. His water-graphs were exhibited in September 1932 at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 1935, Darling illustrated Dorothy Berliner Commins’ Making an Orchestra and it has been written that he taught at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia after 1930.  

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