 J. Watson Davis is primarily known as John Watson Davis
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| John Watson Davis (1870-1959)
John Watson Davis had a career for six decades as an illustrator; in
addition to his religious commissions, his drawings appeared in Zane
Grey novels, in editions of Sherlock Holmes tales and Bluebeard, and in
other books and magazines. His father was John Steeple Davis,
also a book illustrator.
Born in New York, Davis moved with his family to Paris when he was ten
years old, where he received his art training. This was a time
when many artists from North America and elsewhere flocked to Paris,
then the pre-eminent city for the visual arts, to study with masters in
schools that emphasized rendering of the human form.
Davis returned to Brooklyn when he was in his twenties, and began his
commercial artist career. To avoid confusion with other artists
named “John W. Davis,” he began signing his work “J. Watson
Davis.” He married Agnes Danforth, with whom he had four
children; they subsequently moved to Hollis, New York. Davis was
living in California at the time of his death.
Submitted by Edward P. Bentley, Art Historian, East Lansing, Michigan
Source:
Biography from the Georgetown University Art Collection; supplied to them by Mrs. Adele Davis Durant, daughter of the artist.
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