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The painting Home by Gene Davis is a remarkable piece of art that showcases the artist's unique style and technique. Created in 1983, this pen drawing measures 36 x 42 cm and is currently housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in the United States.

The Artist's Background

Gene Davis was a major figure in 20th-century American painting, known for his contribution to the color abstraction movement. He was born in Washington, D.C., and educated himself through visits to New York's museums and galleries, as well as Washington's art institutions. His early paintings and drawings show the influence of artists such as Paul Klee and Arshile Gorky, but he developed a distinct improvisational quality that characterizes his work.

The Painting "Home"

The painting Home is a drawing of a building with a clock tower on top, featuring a large clock face on the side. The composition creates an interesting perspective of the scene, with two smaller buildings in the background. The use of pen as a medium adds a level of detail and precision to the piece. Key Features of the painting include:
  • The unique perspective and composition of the scene
  • The detailed drawing of the building and clock tower
  • The use of pen as a medium, adding precision and detail to the piece
Similar Artists and paintings can be found on https://ArtsDot.com, including works by Lois Mailou Jones, such as Moon Masque and Initiation, Liberia. For more information on Gene Davis and his work, visit the ArtsDot.com page dedicated to his painting Home.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is also a great resource for learning more about Gene Davis and his contribution to American art. According to Wikipedia, Gene Davis was a key figure in the Washington Color School, a group of artists known for their abstract compositions in acrylic colors on unprimed canvas.
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Gene Davis

Gene Davis was an American Color Field painter known for his striking paintings of vertical stripes of color. Born in Washington D.C. in 1920, Davis spent most of his life there, working as a sportswriter before turning to painting in 1949.

Early Life and Career

Before becoming an artist, Davis worked as a journalist, covering the Roosevelt and Truman presidential administrations. He 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, D.C., 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.

Artistic Style

Davis is best known for his acrylic paintings 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. Davis's artistic style is characterized by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. In color field painting, "color is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself."
  • Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
  • It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to abstract expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering abstract expressionists.
  • Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Barnett Newman are some of the most famous Color Field painters.
Davis's work can be found in the collections of, among others, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He died on April 6, 1985, in his hometown of Washington, D.C. https://WahooArt.com/@/Gene-Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Davis_(painter) https://WahooArt.com/Art.nsf/O/A@D3CP2P

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