Untitled (P 146)
Type:Painting
Year:1984
Size:27.00" x 21.00"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Verso
Notes:
PROVENANCE The artist Marsh Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC Littlehouse Gallery, Private Collection, Alabama
Gene B Davis ART FOR SALE
1920 Washington, D.C. - 1985 Washington, D.C.. Known for: Neo-dada-pop, geometric-optical and mural painting.
Gene Davis, a painter associated with the Washington Color School Painters*, was a self-taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract... Read full biography
Gene Davis, a painter associated with the Washington Color School Painters*, was a self-taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism*, Neo-Dada*, and Proto-Pop. Davis was born in Washington, D.C. in 1920. Spending most of his life... Read full biography
Gene Davis, a painter associated with the Washington Color School Painters*, was a self-taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism*, Neo-Dada*, and Proto-Pop. Davis was born in Washington, D.C. in 1920. Spending most of his life there, he started painting at a very young age, as the artist himself explains to Buck Pennington in an interview: . "I believe -- when I was eight, nine years old, somewhere in that vicinity, I used to... Read full biography
Gene Davis, a painter associated with the Washington Color School Painters*, was a self-taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism*, Neo-Dada*, and Proto-Pop. Davis was born in Washington, D.C. in 1920. Spending most of his life there, he started painting at a very young age, as the artist himself explains to Buck Pennington in an interview: . "I believe -- when I was eight, nine years old, somewhere in that vicinity, I used to do little childlike drawings and I sent them in to the Washington Post 's"Children's Page" -- they had a regular "Children's Page" -- and they thought enough of them to publish several of them, one of which won a $1 prize, which was the thrill of a... Read full biography
Gene Davis, a painter associated with the Washington Color School Painters*, was a self-taught artist whose early work represented several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism*, Neo-Dada*, and Proto-Pop. Davis was born in Washington, D.C. in 1920. Spending most of his life there, he started painting at a very young age, as the artist himself explains to Buck Pennington in an interview: . "I believe -- when I was eight, nine years old, somewhere in that vicinity, I used to do little childlike drawings and I sent them in to the Washington Post 's"Children's Page" -- they had a regular "Children's Page" -- and they thought enough of them to publish several of them, one of which won a $1 prize, which was the thrill of a lifetime, of course, in those days. So my interest in visual art goes back to early childhood. And th... Read full biography
Gene B Davis - Art for Sale (5 available)
Series 2
Type:Other
Year:1969
Size:30.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Screenprint/Silkscreen
Signed:Verso
Edition:107/150
Notes:
Fine Art Print, Color screenprint on canvas laid on board
Treasure Island
Type:Painting
Year:1980
Size:47.00" x 69.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Provenance: Private collection, FL
Bermuda Triangle
Type:Painting
Year:1982
Size:60.00" x 90.38"
Medium:Acrylic
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Signed, titled, and dated on the verso.
Sky Cycle
Type:Painting
Year:1978
Size:49.00" x 35.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Verso
Notes:
Gene Davis's Minimalist painting features an arrangement of vertical stripes in bright hues of blue, yellow, and magenta with varied widths of open canvas between them.