All Hallows Eve, oil on canvas, 40"x50" (image), 46"x56" (framed), s.l.l.

Davis’s early style was Tonalist, inspired initially by his attraction to Barbizon painting while in France, but he later turned to a style inspired by the Impressionist aesthetic and became well known for his cloudscapes. Davis was inducted into the National Academy in 1906, and he died at Mystic in 1933.

Davis exhibited extensively throughout his lifetime, his venues including the National Academy, the Armory Show of 1913, the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915, and the Paris salons. He won Silver Medals at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo) and the Universal Exposition (St. Louis) in 1904, and he received a Gold Medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (San Francisco) in 1915.

His work is in the permanent collection of America’s finest museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lyman Allen Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


Sundown Under a Blazing Sky, 25" x 30" (image), 30" x 35" (with frame), signed lower left.