Gladys Rockmore Davis (May 11, 1901 – February 16, 1967) was an American artist who worked in both commercial and fine arts.

Although neither of her parents had any artistic inclinations, they encouraged her and sent her to Saturday classes at the California School of Fine Arts.

At the age of sixteen, Davis entered the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with John Norton and George Bellows.

[4][page needed] Davis’ artwork appeared in several major fashion catalogs over the next few years, including Marshall Fields and Vogue.

[5] In 1925, Gladys Rockmore Davis (the name she used for the rest of her career) left the studio and became a freelance advertising artist.

After their marriage, the couple moved to New York where Floyd, dividing his time between advertising and magazine illustration, soon became top man in both fields.

She won other prizes from museums throughout the country, and in 1941 she gave her first one-man show at the Rehn Gallery in New York City.

[6] A critic of the Art Digest (May 1, 1943) wrote that Davis was "one of our strongest women artists, who is not so much concerned with fantasy as she is with painting a good solid, professional picture".

At the Metropolitan Opera House in 1944, Davis made many intimate sketches of the ballet from backstage, and other studies in the dressing rooms for Life magazine.

Davis worked inside the store sketching ballerinas; she gave her drawings away to persons who purchased $100 war bonds.

Reviewing the show, which was exhibited in the foyer of the Time-Life Building in 1945, a critic from the New York World-Telegram commented, "This was an uncertain, frightened city Gladys Rockmore Davis was painting.“ Their 44 works from World War II are now held by The US Army Center of Military History(link Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine) in Washington D.C. Davis was selected to participate in the first art show sponsored by the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1945.

In 1953, Davis's work was featured again on the cover of American Artist with a charcoal of her new “back view” series.

[citation needed] In November 1956, after a visit to the Orient, Davis has a show at the Midtown Gallery featuring her impressions of Balinese dancers.

[13] Gladys Rockmore Davis died at the French Hospital in New York City on February 16, 1967; both of her children were with her.