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William R. Davis

About the artist
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William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Mayo Beach Lighthouse, Wellfleet, circa 1860 | Oil on panel | Size: 6" x 8" | Framed: 10" x 12" | $4,500
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
4th of July Beach Show | Oil on panel | Size: 5.5" x 8.5" | Framed: 9.5" x 12" | $4,500
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
View Along Saco River, NH | Oil on panel | Size: 8" x 10" | Framed: 13" x 15" | $4,800
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Jib & Main Sail Cat Off Monomoy Light, Chatham | Oil on panel | Size: 9" x 12" | Framed: 13" x 16" | $7,500
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Winter Glow #2 | Oil on panel | Size: 8" x 6" | Framed: 12" x 10" | $3,800
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Winter Day at a Tisbury Farm, Martha's Vineyard | Oil on panel | Size: 8" x 10" | Framed: 13.5" x 15.5" | $5,500
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Winter Night, Truro Rail Station, circa 1890's | Oil on panel | Size: 6" x 8" | Framed: 10" x 12" | $4,200
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Yachting Under Blue Skies | Oil on panel | Size: 9" x 12" | Framed: 15" x 18" | $7,500
William R. Davis at Gallery Antonia, Chatham, MA
Snowy Creek, South Woodstock, Vermont | Oil on panel | Size: 10" x 8" | Framed: 13.5" x 11.5" | $4,000

 
Bill Davis grew up on Cape Cod during a time when the Cape was a much quieter summer vacation land. At 10 years old, he took sailing lessons at the Hyannis Port Yacht learning to sail Beetlecats and other local built wooden boats. At 14 years old, he started working at the Hyannis Theater and continued there until 1970. Attended Barnstable High School and was always found in the Art Rooms. After High School graduation and a year attending Cape Cod Community College Bill went to work for his father's Heating & Air conditioning Company. But in the late 70's, he returned to painting at night after work. In 1978 he started selling his paintings to local builders and folks in Hyannis Port. By 1982 he made the switch to painting full time.  Bill had his first show at Richard Bourne Company 1983 along with an artist friend Elizabeth Mumford. The show was well received and attended by Lee Remick and Jackie Onasiss. This was the beginning of a very long list of shows all over the country. 

Once you have seen a painting by William R. Davis, you will understand why Mr. Davis has a national reputation as one of the best marine artists presently working in the United States. Mr. Davis grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water. He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminosity painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects.


In 1987, Davis made history with the first one artist show ever mounted at the prestigious Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut. All twenty of the works featured in that show were sold at the opening reception. In 1990 he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence and his painting entitled "Calm Day off Latimer's Reef" appeared on the cover of Mystic's The Art of the Sea Calendar in 1993. Three of his paintings were also used in Shipwrecks Around Boston by noted Cape Cod author, William P. Quinn. Rockport Publishers has included Boston Harbor at Sunset in a new book entitled A Gallery of Marine Art. He has also been included in the latest edition of E.H.H. Archibald's authoritative volume on Marine Art from the Flemish masters to the present.

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Memberships:
  • Fellow Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
  • The Guild of Boston Artists
  • Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art  Acquisition Committee
  • St. Botolph Club
  • Board of Trustee Cape Cod Maritime Museum   

Awards:

  • 1989 Award of Excellence – Mystic Maritime Gallery International Show 
  • 1991 Second Place – Copley Society 
  • 1999 Award of Excellence – Mystic Maritime Gallery International Show 

Juried & Invitational Shows and Exhibitions
2016
  • Summer Exhibition, The Christina Gallery, Edgartown, MA, July 2 - August 31
  • Spirit & Matter: Contemporary American Luminism. (Don Demers, Joseph McGurl, William R Davis)  The Collins Galleries, Orleans, MA   August 20 - September 9
2015
  • Spotlight Show, The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, December 5-16
2014
  • One Man Show, Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA, July 5-August 5
2012
  • Offical  "POPS by the  SEA" artist
  • Cape Cod Hospice 25th Year Award,  April
  • Collins Gallery, Orleans, MA , group show 
2011
  • One Man Show, Quidley & Company, Nantucket, MA, August
  • Private one man exhibition "St. Botolph Club", October

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    • Daniel Corey
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    • Ann Trainor Domingue
    • Marguerite E. Falconer
    • F. Ronald Fowler
    • Sue Gilkey
    • William Gotha
    • Lois Griffel
    • Laura Griffith
    • Ann Hart
    • Susan A. Hollis
    • Peter Hussey
    • Don Krohn
    • Bill Lane
    • Elizabeth Lazeren
    • Barney Levitt
    • Carol Maguire
    • Ginny Nickerson
    • Jo Ellen Reinhardt
    • Kim Roderiques
    • Pharr Schulenburg
    • William Simpson
    • Odin K. Smith
    • Charles Sovek
  • Antonia
  • So they say...
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