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Artist:
Gene Davis, born Washington, DC 1920-died Washington, DC 1985  Search this
Medium:
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:
90 3/4 x 187 in. (230.5 x 475.0 cm.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1964
Exhibition Label:
The Museum of Modern Art included Black Grey Beat in a groundbreaking 1965 exhibition The Responsive Eye. The curator, William Seitz, placed Davis among the color imagists [who] are poetic, even romantic in approach," freely choosing bold colors for their "billboards."
Gene Davis: Hot Beat, 2016
Publication Label:
Color Field Painting emerged in the United States in the 1950s. The movement is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying, or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast expanses of color. These works — by artists such as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski — are considered crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. Washington, DC, washome home to a number of these artists who became known as the Washington Color School. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has one of the largest collections of Color Field painting in the world.
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Commemorative Guide. Nashville, TN: Beckon Books, 2015.
Topic:
Abstract\geometric  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection
Object number:
1980.6.15
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7e5a94def-213a-4d6a-8ef4-bab4e375c46b
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1980.6.15