Oil on canvas, 36 x 29”
Signed lower left

Two views were dear to Davis: hillsides with only a bit of sky and big skies with only a little land. Few artists of his day painted clouds with so great a presence and so strong a sense of movement.

Davis’s work was much admired. He never had a New York studio, yet his paintings were sought after by galleries and museums and were in major exhibitions. Altogether, Davis painted some 900 landscapes in Mystic. Supposedly, he had come because Mystic was a good place to sail a boat. It was also a good place for him to paint.