Stark Davis “The Blue Macaw”, Signed + Titled

Design Plus Gallery present the Signed Print of “The Blue Macaw” by Stark Davis. This Art Deco painting print is a colorful print depicting blue feather winged Macaw with a beautiful red body standing on a flowering lemon tree. Visible wear is present on the frame and backside, oil paint deterioration has occurred with its antique age.

“Stark Davis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1885. He lived and painted in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Morro Bay, California, where he worked for Disney Animation Studios in Los Angeles and Burbank. While in Chicago, Davis was affiliated with several arts institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palette and Chisel Club, and Chicago Gallery Association. During the 1920s and 1930s Stark Davis’s illustrations appeared on covers of the Ladies’ Home Journal, and in numerous advertisements, and from 1927 to 1929, Davis’s artistic and colorful “Bird Series” of ads for Lincoln automobiles ran in popular magazines such as Country Life and Home and Garden. A typical ad would feature a Lincoln sedan or coupe in the foreground, with a peacock, a wide-eyed red bird of paradise, or a condor dramatically filling the background or framing the scene.