COLLECTOR Davis Tillman HOMETOWN Hot Springs HIS OBSESSION Primitive, vintage, and ball-worthy masks HOW HE BECAME INTERESTED Tillman’s parents were long-time collectors who would later start the family’s famed eponymous antiques shop, Tillman’s Antiques, which is located on Central Avenue in Hot Springs. Their love of antiques and vintage pieces manifested itself in Davis at an early age while they were living in Washington, D.C. Attending the area’s auctions and markets with his parents on the weekends, the young Tillman developed a particular penchant for masks of all kinds, and began to seek them out at the shows.

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