October 14, 1918

William E. Davis was born in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Davis distinguished himself as a commercial photographer for forty years and began working as a fine art photographer in 1983. Davis has had aesthetic connections with photographers on the West Coast and has worked almost exclusively in Arkansas. The photographer was honored with a one-person, sixty-seven-image exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center from October 6 through November 26, 2000.