Davis developed an interest in American primitive painting and folk art as well as in the faded wooden signs that defined 18th- and 19th-century American commerce. "The fifties were a particularly nationalistic time, especially in the arts," he ways about the search for a native culture that was occurring then. "People were taking about what is American. aiga.org
The revolution was already in full swing when in the late 1950s a young artist named Paul Davis entered the fray. www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-pauldavis