I see the ARTIST as a
COOL SPECTATOR-REPORTER
at an ARENA of HOT EVENTS.
Davis is generally considered to be the outstanding American artist to work in a Cubist idiom. He made witty and original use of it and created a distinctive American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed that every image he used had its source in observed reality:
I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint
the American Scene.
Text from WebMuseum