Background
Davenport, Ray Charles was born on May 5, 1926 in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of Raymond Forbes Davenport.
Davenport, Ray Charles was born on May 5, 1926 in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, United States. Son of Raymond Forbes Davenport.
Student in Advertising Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1948; student in Lithography, University of Southern California, 1980.
Draftsman, B.L. Montague Company Inc., Sumter, South Carolina., 1951-1957; commercial artist, Sumter, South Carolina. illustrator, 9th Air Force, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina., 1959-1961; advertising manager, B.L. Montague Company Inc., Sumter, 1961-1965; manager printing department, Osteen-Davis Printing Company, Sumter, 1965-1975; artist, lithographer, Sumter, since 1975.
Chairman Sumter County Cultural Commission, 1977. Chairman, board directors Sumter Gallery of Art, 1980. Member acquisitions committee South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, 1981.
Sergeant United States Army Air Corps, 1944-1945. Member National Society Painters in Casein and Acrylic (Ralph Fabri award 1973, Mordecai Newman award 1995), Allied Artists American (Atto Newer award 1983, Gloria Benson Stacks award 1985), South Carolina Watercolor Society (Winsor and Newton award 1981), Artists Guild Columbia (Best in Show award 1981), Sumter Artists Guild (charter member 1966, president 1972, 2002, 1st place award 1978), Guild South Carolina Artists (president 1989).
Son of Raymond Forbes D. M. Lula Kate Chatham, December 28, 1946. Children: Louise, Raymond, Susan.