(1874-1962) Clara Davidson was an illustrator for leading periodicals, designing covers for magazines such as Town and Country and The Saturday Evening Post. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and studied with Arthur Wesley Dow and at the Art Students' League and Copper Union Women's Art School in New York. She also studied with Alphonse Mucha and J. Emil Blanche in Paris. She exhibited with the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Art Club, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Society of Independent Artists, and the Silvermine Guild in Norwalk, Connecticut. She is known for portrait and figural paintings, though she also painted still life, landscape, and genre scenes. Her work is in the collections of the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and the Rockford, Illinois, Art Museum.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking