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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.
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Artist: Gene Davis
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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1970s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Screen

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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1970s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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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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Lithograph

Narcissus Gene Davis minimalist abstract color field lithography with blue
By Gene Davis
Located in New York, NY
Vertical lines in muted colors take on the organic quality of handmade paper, resulting in this subtle iteration of Gene Davis’ iconic color field stripe paintings. The title "Narcis...
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1970s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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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Carousel 1980 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Gene Davis
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Gene Davis Title: Carousel Year: 1980 Medium Type: Lithograph Size-Width Size-Height: 17" x 23" Signed Edition Size: Signed in pencil, and marked 172/250 Known for ...
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1980s 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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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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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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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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1980s Minimalist Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Gene Davis Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Color Field Lithograph 1972
By Gene Davis
Located in Dallas, TX
Gene Davis Large Scale Lithograph on Archival paper Signed and numbered in pencil. Titled Yankee Doodle and executed in 1972. Original frame with plexiglass. Printed by Fine Creati...
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Mid-20th Century Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lilac, Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Lilac Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 247/250, plus proofs Size: 22.5 x 28.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed a...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lilac, Gene Davis
Lilac, Gene Davis
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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: Good Inscription: Sig...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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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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Lithograph

Black Watch II, signed and numbered 39/150 screen print
By Gene Davis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a signature color-field composition with multiple thin colored stripes created by Gene Davis. Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985) Screenprint Black Watch I, II and III, 1974 ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Gene Davis Abstract Lines Screenprint, Signed, 1980, Framed, Royal Curtain
By Gene Davis
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Gene Davis Title: Royal Curtain Medium: Screenprint on Arches paper Date: 1980 Edition: 61/250 Frame Size: 35" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21 3/4" Signature: Hand signed ...
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1980s 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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1970s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Gene Davis Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Black Witch Series Serigraph 1974
By Gene Davis
Located in Dallas, TX
Large scale serigraph by Gene Davis 'Black Witch Series' on archival paper signed and numbered in pencil, 24 of 150. Executed in 1974, 72" x 45" in the original frame with plexiglass...
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Mid-20th Century 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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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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Lithograph

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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1980s Minimalist Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Royal Curtain, Minimalist Abstract Screenprint by Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gene Davis, American (1920 - 1985) Title: Royal Curtain Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint in Colors on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Paper Size: 29.75 x 21...
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1980s Abstract Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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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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Lithograph

Shooting Star, Gene Davis
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Shooting Star Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: 202/250, plus proofs Size: 37.25 x 37 inches Condition: Good Inscription: S...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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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: Good Inscription: Si...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Ferris Wheel, Minimalist Abstract Lithograph by Gene Davis
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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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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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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1980s Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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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1970s Abstract Geometric Gene Davis Prints and Multiples

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