2012 TD Bank Pops by the Sea
Guest Artist William R. Davis

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has named local painter William Davis as this year's guest artist for the 27th Annual TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert on August 12, 2012, from 5 pm to 7 pm on the Hyannis Village Green, featuring the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, with conductor Keith Lockhart.

Mr. Davis has been commissioned to create this year's commemorative painting and limited edition lithograph, which will be unveiled at a reception in his honor on May 29, 2012. The original painting will also be on display at TD Bank on Main Street in Hyannis from May 30, 2012 until August 11, 2012, when it will be auctioned at a special VIP reception on the Hyannis Village Green.  
 
"It is a great honor and privilege to have an artist of Mr. Davis's caliber bringing his unique inspiration in creating the image that will memorialize this year's Pops by the Sea." according to AFCC Executive Director, Kevin Howard.

Limited edition prints of the work will be available during the TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert, Sunday, August 12, 2012, on the Hyannis Village Green. The annual concert features the only Cape Cod appearance of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.
 
Dubbed by Cape Cod Life Magazine as one of the 400 most interesting people on Cape Cod, artist William Davis has a national reputation as one of the best marine artists presently working in the United States. A self-taught painter, Mr. Davis grew up in Hyannis Port and his oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water. He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminosity painters to realize his personal vision.  
 
In 1987, Davis made history with the first one artist show ever mounted at the prestigious Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut. In 1990 he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence and his painting Calm Day off Latimer's Reef appeared on the cover of Mystic's The Art of the Sea calendar in 1993. Three of his paintings were also used in Shipwrecks Around Boston by noted Cape Cod author William P. Quinn. Rockport Publishers has included his work in a new book entitled A Gallery of Marine Art. He has been included in the latest edition of E.H.H. Archibald's authoritative volume on marine art from the Flemish masters to the present. His work has also appeared in American Artist, Soundings, and the poster for The Cahoon Museum of American Art.