My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world.

Marland to compete in his competition for a Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca City in 1927. Although he specialized in realistic intense portrait busts Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather he observed and spoke with them. Eisenhower
Marshall Ferdinand Foch
Anatole France
Mahatma Gandhi
André Gide
Emma Goldman
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He was one of a dozen sculptors invited by the oilman E. Marland to compete in his competition for a Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca City in 1927. In 1934 Davidson won the National Academy of Design's Maynard Prize and in 1947 the American Academy of Arts and Letters hosted a retrospective featuring nearly 200 of his works.