Butler County

Painting and Photography

Priscilla Broughton Solomons-Davis (P.S. Davis) attended Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, and attained degrees from Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Mississippi, Troy State University, Alabama, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, where she received a Master’s Degree in painting. In addition, she studied photography with Lilo Raymond and Craig Stevens at the Maine Photographic Workshop.

Davis’s work has been exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist’s Gallery, Alabama Works on Paper International Invitational Exhibition, the Photographers Showcase at UAB, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. She has had one woman shows at Troy State University’s Malone Gallery and Sac’s Gallery in Montgomery. She has been published in the Alabama Literary Review, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Book of Days, and a photograph of her dog, Sara Lee, was the cover of New Stories from the South – The Best of 1998. In addition, Ms. Davis and her friend, Roberta Gamble, authored Southern Dogs and Their People (Algonquin Press).

P. S. Davis says that American artist, Robert Henri, said best her feelings about art. In the book The Art Spirit he said… “All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed…Art, when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. Art tends towards balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living…very good things for anyone to be interested in.”

After 27 years of teaching art at Greenville High School, she is now retired and teaches Art Appreciation at the Greenville campus of Lurleen B. Wallace Community College.