Lady Motorist

Oil on canvas

Warren Burnham Davis was a commercial illustrator and fine artist well-known for graceful and poetic female portraiture, who studied at The Art Students League of New York. Davis won the coveted Innes Award in 1905 and was to achieve other significant honors throughout his career.

In this work, he depicts the subject in the fashionable but impractical hat, scarf, and veil that were characteristic garments worn by women before the windshield came into general use.