Noah Davis: An Innovative Painter Who Also Reimagined Art’s Role in Community

In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern that offers little illumination, the artwork is solemn. Davis created it in the year his father, Keven, died from a brain tumor.Related ArticlesAt the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Blockbuster Exhibition Explores Different Approaches to