Gene Davis

Gene Davis, artist and art
Born Aug 22 1920, Birth Washington, DC, USA.
Died April 6 1985 deathWashington, DC.

Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Post Painterly Abstraction,


Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:




Hirshhorn collection
Black Dahlia
Walker art collection
Untitled work
Though he worked in a variety of media and styles, including ink, oil, acrylic, video, and collage, Davis is best known by far for his acrylic paintings (mostly on canvas) of colorful vertical stripes, which he began to paint in 1958. The paintings typically repeat particular colors to create a sense of rhythm and repetition with variations…

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