Davis, Goode Paschall

Born in Havana, Cuba on Nov. 8, 1906 to Norman H. and Mackie Paschall Davis, Goode Paschall Davis was a member of a prominant East Coast family. Over the course of his career, he was commissioned to paint over 400 portraits, including the only known portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in casual dress. In the late 1940s, Davis moved from Connecticut to Santa Barbara, California, where he remained active as a painter until the late 1950s. It was during this period that he painted several masters of movie posters for RKO Radio Pictures, including On Dangerous Ground and At Sword's Point. Goode Davis died in Nashville, TN on Oct. 20, 1989.

Source:

Edan Milton Hughes. Artists in California, 1786-1940, 3rd edition. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2002.

George C. Groce. The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860.

New York Historical Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957.