Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
American, 1920-1985
Davis was born in Washington D.C. in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Football Team and other local teams. Working as a journalist in the late 1940s, he covered the Roosevelt and Truman presidential administrations, and was often President Truman's partner for poker games. His first art studio was in his apartment on Scott Circle; later he worked out of a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Davis's first solo exhibition of drawings was at the Dupont Theater Gallery in 1952, and his first exhibition of paintings was at Catholic University in 1953. A decade later he participated in the "Washington Color Painters" exhibit at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in Washington, DC, which traveled to other venues around the US, and launched the recognition of the Washington Color School as a regional movement in which Davis was a central figure. The Washington painters were among the most prominent of the mid-century color field painters. 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. One of the best-known of his paintings, "Black Grey Beat" (1964), owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum reinforces these musical comparisons in its title. The pairs of alternating black and grey stripes are repeated across the canvas, and recognizable even as other colors are substituted for black and grey, and returned to even as the repetition of dark and light pairs is here and there broken by sharply contrasting colors.
In 1972 Davis created Franklin's Footpath, which was at the time the world's largest artwork, by painting colorful stripes on the street in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the world's largest painting, Niagara (43,680 square feet), in a parking lot in Lewiston, NY. His "micro-paintings", at the other extreme, were as small as 3/8 of an inch square.
For a public work in a different medium altogether, he designed the color patterns of the "Solar Wall," a set of tubes filled with dyed water and backlit by fluorescent lights, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Davis began teaching in 1966 at the Corcoran School of Art, where he became a permanent member of the faculty. His works are in the collections of, among others, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
He died on April 6, 1985 in Washington, DC.(Biography provided by Georgetown Frame Shoppe)
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Homage to Barnett Newman /// Gene Davis Abstract Geometric Minimal Screenprint
By Gene Davis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985)
Title: "Homage to Barnett Newman"
*Signed and dated by Davis in pencil lower right
Year: 1979
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded soft-...
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Royal Curtain /// Gene Davis Contemporary Abstract Geometric Expressionist Art
By Gene Davis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985)
Title: "Royal Curtain"
*Signed by Davis in pencil lower right
Year: 1980
Medium: Original Screenprint on Arches paper
Limited edition: 250, (the number may differ from what is shown in the photos)
Printer: Alpha Omega...
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Royal Curtain
By Gene Davis
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Royal Curtain
Medium: Screenprint on Arches paper
Date: 1980
Edition: 181/250
Frame Size: 35" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21 3/4"
Signature: Signed and ...
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Green Giant, Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985)
Title: Giant Green
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Edition: 43/250, plus proofs
Size: 29.75 x 32.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscriptio...
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Banjo, Abstract Minimalist Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gene Davis’s captivating Color Field compositions of vertical lines and evolving color is demonstrated in this print. Alternating from blue to yellow and then red, the vertical strip...
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Royal Curtain 1980 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Gene Davis
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Gene Davis
Royal Curtain - 1980
Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper 30'' x 22'' inches
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 180/250
Unframed
Known for his dazzling and ...
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Ferris Wheel: abstract modern minimalist color field drawing with rainbow colors
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
This geometric, minimalist print glows in rainbow shades. Vibrant raspberry pink, magenta, yellow, lime green, and sky-blue lines take on the organic quality of handmade paper, resul...
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Sonata, Minimalist Stripe Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985)
Title: Sonata
Year: 1980
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Narcissus Gene Davis minimalist abstract color field lithography with blue
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
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Yellow Jack, Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985)
Title: Yellow Jack
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Edition: 241/250, plus proofs
Size: 22.5 x 25 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription:...
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Shooting Star 1979 Large Signed Screen Print
By Gene Davis
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Shooting Star - 1979
Print - Silkscreen 36.5'' x 36.75''
Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 238/250
Unframed
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1970s Color-Field Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Sonata, Minimalist Stripe Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985)
Title: Sonata
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil, verso
Edition: 250
Paper Size: 20.75 x 28.5 inc...
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Series 2
By Gene Davis
Located in Irvine, CA
This is a bright color screenprint on canvas laid on board by American artist Gene Davis (1920-1985). It is titled "Series 2", measures 30" x 24" and completed in 1969. It is beautif...
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1960s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Home Run: abstract modern minimalist color field drawing with rainbow colors
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
Rainbow shades shine in this abstract, color field print. Vibrant red, yellow, orange, purple, and green lines take on the organic quality of handmade paper, resulting in this subtle...
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1970s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Homage to Barnett Newman
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on white wove paper. Signed and numbered 248/250 in pencil by Davis. Based on a series of oil paintings made by Davis, completed afte...
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1970s Color-Field Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Royal Curtain, Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985)
Title: Royal Curtain
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Edition: 41/250, plus proofs
Size: 30 x 21.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription...
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Lilac, Minimalist Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Lilac
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Paper Size: 21.75 x 30 inches
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1980s Minimalist Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Yankee Doodle /// Gene Davis Abstract Geometric Huge Screenprint Colorful Modern
By Gene Davis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985)
Title: "Yankee Doodle"
*Signed and numbered by Davis in pencil lower right
Year: 1972
Medium: Original Screenprint on wove paper, laid down t...
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Carousel, Minimalist Stripe Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Carousel
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Image 13.5 x 20 inches
Paper Size: 17 x 24 inches
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1980s Color-Field Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Bullet Proof Gene Davis color field 1960s multicolor abstract stripe print
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
This Gene Davis screenprint can only be described as jewel toned, with vibrant ink in peridot green, sapphire blue, turquoise green, amethyst purple, carnelian brown, grey, and pink....
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Tightrope: abstract modern minimalist color field drawing with rainbow colors
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
Rainbow shades shine in delicate clusters of vertical lines, in this abstract, geometric lithograph. Vibrant yellow, green, magenta pink, blue and brown take on the organic quality o...
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1970s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Gene Davis, Blackwatch III, Op Art Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, minimalist stripe print entitled "Black Watch III" by American Color Field artist, Gene Davis. The print is signed and numbered in pencil a...
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1970s Minimalist Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Adam's Rib, Minimalist Stripe Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Adam's Rib
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 19 x 27 in. (48.26 x 68.58 cm)
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1980s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Green Giant, Minimalist Print by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Green Giant
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil verso
Edition: 250
Paper Size: 26 x 28.5 inches
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1970s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Witch Doctor: abstract modern minimalist color field drawing with rainbow colors
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
Vibrant magenta, yellow, orange, brown, purple, lime green, jungle green, dark green, cerulean, and sky-blue lines take on the organic quality of handmade paper, resulting in this su...
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Royal Curtain, Minimalist silkscreen by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985)
Title: Royal Curtain
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen in Colors on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Paper Size: 29.75 x 21....
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Banjo, Minimalist Stripe Lithograph by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985)
Title: Banjo
Year: 1981
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Size: 21.25 x 28.5 in. (53.98 x 7...
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1980s Color-Field Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Ferris Wheel
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis
Title: Ferris Wheel
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Image Size: 18 x 25.5 in...
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1980s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples
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Tom Thumb 1979 Large Signed Screen Print
By Gene Davis
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Tom Thumb - 1979
Print - Silkscreen 36.5'' x 36.75''
Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 250/250
Unframed
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