Floyd MacMillan Davis

Floyd MacMillan Davis was an American painter and illustrator known for his work in advertising and illustration Walter and Roger Reed described him as someone who could capture the rich, beautiful people of the 1920s dashing, mustachioed men the cool, svelte women. But Davis was just as capable at capturing justplainfolk, and with a cartoonists sensibilities and a fresh humor, he expanded into story art and ad work that called characters of every persuasion.

Floyd MacMillan Davis was born on April 8, 1896 and grew up in Chicago. His ancestors were Scottish and Welsh. Floyd never had the benefit of art school instruction because he was forced by circumstance to quit high school at the end of his first year, after which, he got a job in a lithograph house in Chicago. For 3.00 a week he made tusche and did every kind of manual work entrusted to an apprentice. He was brought into contact with art and was given some opportunity to develop his own drawing skill. His first real art job was with Meyer Both amp Co., the wellknown Chicago Art Service.

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