Nash
France
United States
• 1920
Biography
GENE DAVIS (1920-1985) Known for his dazzling and immediately recognizable stripe paintings, Gene Davis emerged from the ranks of the Washington Color School to national prominence. Davis, who helped make Washington, D.C. a center of contemporary art, played a significant national and international role in the color abstraction movement. Encouraged and championed by Jacob Kainen and later by Clement Greenberg, Davis enjoyed scores of major exhibitions during his long career.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1920