Ted Davis (1908–1995) was an American painter and longtime member of the artist community on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he maintained a studio for more than four decades. Born in New York City, he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and later with John J. Newman and Hans Hofmann, whose modernist ideas influenced the development of his work. Davis painted urban subjects, still lifes, and the landscape and life of Monhegan, gradually moving toward increasingly abstract compositions while retaining recognizable elements of the natural world. His work was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and the Butler Institute of American Art, among other venues, and is held in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and Monhegan Museum.