Note 1): The following Davis biographical materials are taken from the Askart.com website:

“Floyd Macmillan Davis was a well-known illustrator especially noted for his depictions of southern rural hill people. He gave much of the credit for the success of his pictures to the critical judgment of his wife, painter Gladys Rockmore Davis. Floyd Davis' point of view, however, was uniquely his own. A gallery of wonderful characters depicted with poetic realism and warm humor peopled his visual world….With the outbreak of World War II, Davis was selected as a correspondent- artist for the War Department and painted in various war theatres. Many of these distinguished paintings were reproduced by Life magazine as part of a pictorial record of the war and hangs in the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. Over the years, Davis won several Art Directors Club medals and other awards, but more important than this, his work had the admiration of his whole profession. Floyd Davis was one of the great figures of American illustration.(Emphasis added.).” The text of the Askart.com biography is based on the text of “The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980, A Century of Illustration” by Walt and Roger Reed. Given his prominence as an American illustrator, it is not surprising that Davis is represented in the Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. (Emphasis and bold face added)."

Note 2) The Askart.com records regarding Davis' auction sales provide support for the modest presale estimate of $300-$700 for this good sized, crisply delineated and highly finished World War II vignette, which might have appeared in Life magazine. The highest Davis' illustration auction price was, per Askart.com, $2,000 on 5/2/1992 for "Woman in tree spying on men cockfighting," which was 17 in. x 25 in., but is not illustrated in Askart.com's record of this sale by Illustration House, Inc.