Artists

Davis, Joseph H.

Joseph Emory Davis (10 December 1784 – 18 September 1870) was an American lawyer who became one of the wealthiest planters in Mississippi in the antebellum era; he owned thousands of acres of land and was among the nine men in Mississippi who owned more than 300 slaves. He was the elder brother (by 23 years) of Jefferson Davis and acted as his surrogate father for several years. The younger Davis became a politician, U.S. Senator, and later President of the Confederacy. In the 1820s, Joseph Davis developed the Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend, Mississippi. He left the plantations in 1862 during the American Civil War, but they continued to operate under Union direction, as well as to house black soldiers and refugees. After the war, Davis received a pardon and regained his lands. But, in the 1867 spring floods, the Mississippi River cut a new channel across the peninsula and transformed Davis Bend into Davis Island. Davis moved to Vicksburg, selling the plantation to Benjamin Montgomery, his former slave who had been an outstanding manager. Davis encouraged him in making a community of freedmen.

Davis, J. Wistar

Davis, Lew E.

Davis, Lynn

Lyn(n) Davi(e)s can refer to: Lynn E. Davis (born 1943), U.S. Under Secretary of State Lynn Davis (photographer) (born 1944), American photographer Lynn Davies (born 1942), Welsh long jumper, Olympic gold medalist Lynn Davies (poet), Canadian poet Lyn Davis (1943–2008), New Zealand rugby player Lyn Davies (born 1947), Welsh footballer Lyn Davies (rugby union) (1940–2004), Welsh rugby player Lynn Yamada Davis (1956–2024), better known as Lynja, TikTok chef

Davison, Austin L.

Davison, George

George Davison (19 September 1854 – 26 December 1930) was an English photographer, a proponent of impressionistic photography, a co-founder of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of British artists and a managing director of Kodak UK. He was also a millionaire, thanks to an early investment in Eastman Kodak.

Davis, Pearl

Davis Pratt

Davis, Richard Barrett

Davis, Ronald

Ronald Davis (June 29, 1937 – November 19, 2025) was an American painter whose work was associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics. He was a veteran of more than seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.

Davis, Samuel

Davis, Stuart

Edward Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964) was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto-pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his Ashcan School pictures in the early years of the 20th century. With the belief that his work could influence the sociopolitical environment of America, Davis' political message was apparent in all of his pieces from the most abstract to the clearest. Contrary to most modernist artists, Davis was aware of his political objectives and allegiances and did not waver in loyalty via artwork during the course of his career. By the 1930s, Davis was already a famous American painter, but that did not save him from feeling the negative effects of the Great Depression, which led to his being one of the first artists to apply for the Federal Art Project. Under the project, Davis created some seemingly Marxist works; however, he was too independent to fully support Marxist ideals and philosophies.