Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist: . Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93. By BRUCE WEBER. APRIL 16, 2014. Alan Davie, a Scottish-born painter whose audacious and... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist: . Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93. By BRUCE WEBER. APRIL 16, 2014. Alan Davie, a Scottish-born painter whose audacious and colorful abstractions put a personal stamp on Pollock-like expressionism and seized on mythical and... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist: . Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93. By BRUCE WEBER. APRIL 16, 2014. Alan Davie, a Scottish-born painter whose audacious and colorful abstractions put a personal stamp on Pollock-like expressionism and seized on mythical and mystical imagery from cultures around the globe, died on April 5 at his home in Hertfordshire, north of London. He was 93. His death was confirmed by René Gimpel, whose family-owned gallery in London,... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist: . Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93. By BRUCE WEBER. APRIL 16, 2014. Alan Davie, a Scottish-born painter whose audacious and colorful abstractions put a personal stamp on Pollock-like expressionism and seized on mythical and mystical imagery from cultures around the globe, died on April 5 at his home in Hertfordshire, north of London. He was 93. His death was confirmed by René Gimpel, whose family-owned gallery in London, Gimpel Fils, represented Mr. Davie for more than 60 years. Independent-minded, somewhat eccentric and seemingly unaffected by the shifting trends of the art world in the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Davie was an early European admirer of... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist: . Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93. By BRUCE WEBER. APRIL 16, 2014. Alan Davie, a Scottish-born painter whose audacious and colorful abstractions put a personal stamp on Pollock-like expressionism and seized on mythical and mystical imagery from cultures around the globe, died on April 5 at his home in Hertfordshire, north of London. He was 93. His death was confirmed by René Gimpel, whose family-owned gallery in London, Gimpel Fils, represented Mr. Davie for more than 60 years. Independent-minded, somewhat eccentric and seemingly unaffected by the shifting trends of the art world in the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Davie was an early European admirer of postwar American abstract artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, whom he first encount... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (8)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection
2003
Sherman, Charlotte (Essay)
38 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection