Lee Baxter Davis was born in Bryan, Texas on the 20^th of October in 1939. He enlisted in the regular army out of high school and served in Korea after the cease-fire with the 31^st Infantry Battle Group as a medic assigned to B Company of that regiment.  Afterwards he attended college and graduated with a master’s degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His best friend in both undergraduate and graduate school was James Surls. 

He has taught fine art graphics at East Texas State University, now Texas A & M Commerce, for the last thirty years.  He obtained the rank of full professor and was chairman of printmaking. Now retired, Davis serves as the assistant pastor of St William the Confessor Catholic Church, Greenville, Texas, having been ordained to the Order of Permanent Deacons for over twenty-five years. He has been married to his college sweetheart for over 40 years and has two adult children.  He works in his studio at home most evenings and afternoons, mows grass all summer and baptizes, marries, or buries and takes Holy Communion to the shut-ins on most Sundays. 

His prints and drawings have been exhibited throughout the United States and are included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Contemporary Museum of Art in Houston, Texas.  Recently due ultimately to the efforts of such artists as Greg Metz, Vernon Fisher and Gary Panter, his work was exhibited at the Cue Foundation in New York City.