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Posters to benefit Fighting Chance by celebrated artist Paul Davis, a Sag Harbor resident, are being offered for sale for holiday giving through its website, fightingchance.org. A limited number are signed.
Fighting Chance, based in Sag Harbor, is a free counseling and resource center for cancer patients. Montauk resident and cancer survivor Perry Duryea III, who turned to the organization a few years ago, agreed to pose for the portrait after being suggested by founder Duncan Darrow. Mr. Davis met with him at his famed “Lobster Deck” restaurant in Montauk and worked from photographs he took on site.
The original painting was unveiled on September 18 at the restaurant’s fourth annual benefit luncheon for Fighting Chance. “Chip,” as Mr. Duryea is familiarly known, was delighted by the portrait. “You really captured me,” he told the artist.
Mr. Davis’s paintings and posters have been the subject of numerous gallery exhibitions and museum retrospectives in the U.S., Japan, France, Italy, and China. Last year a permanent gallery of Mr. Davis’s posters for Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival was installed at the Public Theater in New York.
Mr. Davis has created works for many East End organizations over the years, among them Guild Hall, the Parrish Art Museum, the Retreat, The Sag Harbor Tree Fund, the Hampton Day School, and the Hayground School, not to mention his celebrated logo, cover painting and inaugural poster for The Hampton Classic. He lives and works in Sag Harbor.
