Gene B Davis ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Gene B Davis: self-portrait silhouette painting

1920 Washington, D.C. - 1985 Washington, D.C.. Known for: Neo-dada-pop, geometric-optical and mural painting.

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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

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Type:Painting

Year:1978

Size:49.00" x 35.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Verso

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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.