Original Gene Davis Washington Color School Hard Edge Vintage Modern Contemporary Pop Art Signed Photographic Print to Sam Gilliam
Original photographic print by Gene Davis, (1920-1985) signed and dedicated, to Sam Gilliam, (a fellow member of the Washington Color School), and dated 1979. The photographic print's subject appears to be a work of art, also by Gene Davis.
Gene Davis, (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985); a painter associated with the Washington Color Painters; (an integral center to the Washington Color Field Movement). A self-taught artist, his early work represents several phases of experimentation, including Abstract Expressionism, Neodada and Proto-Pop.
In the early 1970's, the influential critic Clement Greenberg acclaimed the work of Gene Davis, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. These three artists were the best known of the first generation of the Washington Color School and all three gained national recognition in the ColorField movement.
In 1965, he participated in the “Washington Color Painters” exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in Washington, D.C., which traveled around the U.S. and launched the recognition of the Washington Color School as a regional movement in which Davis was a central figure.
Davis began teaching in 1966 at the Corcoran School of Art, where he became a permanent member of the faculty. In 1974, Davis was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 1984, he was appointed the commissioner of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Though he worked in a variety of media and styles, Davis is best known for his acrylic paintings mostly on canvas of colorful vertical stripes, which he began to paint in 1958.
His work may be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Gene Davis
(August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985)
American
Washington Color School, Modern art, Color Field, Hard-edge painting, Post-painterly abstraction
Photographic art print
Signed verso, on a separate piece of white cardboard, within the frame. There is a note for the holidays, and the year 1979, wishing health in the year to come, (1980), and dedicated to Sam, (Gilliam); also a prominent artist, and fellow member of the Washington Color School
Measurements of the photographic print alone, are approximately 12" X 16"; (larger, in vintage frame).
Vintage frame has nicks, and scratches, and chips.
Photographic print is in good original condition. When lighting is shown to the side, it shows some wavy lines
from moisture. Please review images, for details.
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