Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Davis an haife shi kuma ya girma a Illinois. Ya zo Mexico game da 1910 kuma ya yi aiki ga Kamfanin Sonora News Company yana sayar da jaridu, littattafan jagora, da abubuwan tunawa a kan hanyar Southern Pacific Railway ta kudu daga Nogales, Arizona. Davis, wanda ke sha'awar fasahar al'adu da fasahar pre-Columbian na Mexico ya zama manajan kamfanin Sonora Company na zane-zane da zane-zane a Mexico City. A Lokacin Juyin Juya Halin Mexico
(1910-1920), yawancin kayan tarihi na Mexico sun zo kasuwa. Bayan 1920, yayin da kwanciyar hankali ya dawo kuma Amurkawa suka fara sha'awar Mexico, shagon Davis ya jawo hankalin masu tarawa da sauran baƙi. Masu zane-zane na "Mexican school" masu tasowa suna da sha'awar tarihin tarihi da na zamani, don haka su ma sun shiga cikin shagon Davis. Davis yana daga cikin na farko da suka tattara, nunawa da sayar da ayyukansu. Ya nuna aikin Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, da Rufino Tamayo; wasu da suka zo shagon sun hada da Miguel Covarrubias da Jean Charlot. Davis kuma ya nuna aikin da Amurkawa suka hada da George Biddle, Caroline Durieux, da William Spratling.