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Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985)
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Gene Davis
Butterfly 1979
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Biography |
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1920 |
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Born: Washington, DC |
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1939 - 1942 |
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Studied the liberal arts at the Maryland University, Baltimore, MD |
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1943 |
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Attended Wilson Teachers College, Washington, DC |
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1965 |
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Awarded a Bronze Medal for Painting, Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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1967 |
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Received a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Began teaching at the Corcoran Gallery Art School, Washington, DC |
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1969 |
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Commission: 60-foot mural for South Mall Project, New York State Capitol Building, Albany, NY |
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1972 |
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Commission: 414-foot painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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1974 |
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Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
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1980 |
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Commission: Street Painting at Art Park, New York, NY |
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1984 |
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Appointed Commissioner, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC |
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1985 |
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Died: Washington, DC |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"Gene Davis: On Paper. Watercolors and Drawings from the Estate of the Artist", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975", Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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2007 |
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"Gene Davis", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Gene Davis: Interval", The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (solo)
"Selected Works from the Estate of Gene Davis", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) |
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2006 |
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"Gene Davis: Three Decades", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2005 |
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"Gene Davis: Stripe Paintings from the Estate", Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
"Extreme Abstraction", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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2004 |
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"Gene Davis: 1960s Stripe Paintings", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Florian Sundheimer Kunsthandel, Munich, Germany
"Color: Works from the Estate of the Artist", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
"On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection", Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (travelled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
"Painting by Design", Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"Strata", Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
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2003 |
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"Minimalism and After II: New Acquisitions", DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
"That 70s Print Show", Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
"Strata", Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
"Gene Davis, Paintings and Drawings from the Estate of the Artist", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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2000 - 2002 |
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"Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum", The ArtMuseum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (travelled to: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY; Allentown Art Museum, PA; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Worcester Art Museum, MA; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Des Moines Art Center, IA; Muskegon Museum of Art, MI) |
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2001 |
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"Works from the Estate of the Artist", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC |
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2000 |
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"Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection", Queens Museum of Art, NY
"Birthday Tribute to Jacob Kainen and Selections from the Washington Color School", NationalMuseum of American Art, Washington, DC |
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1999 |
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"At The Threshold Of The Visible: Miniscule And Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996" (travelled to: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA) |
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1998 |
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"In Our Time: Contemporary Art from the Bayly Art Musuem Collection", Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
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1997 |
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"Works from the Estate of the Artist", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1995 |
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"Gene Davis in Black and White: Drawings From the Fifties and Eighties", National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1987 |
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"Gene Davis: A Memorial Exhibition", National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1983 |
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"Gene Davis: Recent Paintings and Drawings", Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo) |
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1982 |
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"Gene Davis: Thirty Years of Drawing", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
"Thirty Painters: Given and Promised", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1979 |
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"Gene Davis: Recent Paintings (1970-78)", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (travelled to: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) (solo) |
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1974 |
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"Within the Decade: Selections from the Guggenheim Permanent Collection", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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1972 |
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"Color Field Painting to Post-Color Field Abstraction: Art for the ‘70's", Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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1971 |
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"The Structure of Color", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1970 |
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"Gene Davis: The Early Paintings", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
"Washington: Twenty Years", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
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1968 |
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"Gene Davis", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC (solo) |
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1966 |
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"Two Decades of American Painting", organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Lalit Kala Gallery, New Delhi, India; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"The 1960's", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Large Scale American Paintings", The Jewish Museum, New York , NY |
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1965 |
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"The Responsive Eye", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ( travelled to: The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD)
"Colorists: 1950-1965", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1964 |
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"Post Painterly Abstraction", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA ( travelled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) |
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1959 |
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Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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Literature |
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2004 |
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Rich, Sarah K. Gene Davis: 1960s Stripe Paintings. New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 2004 |
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1987 |
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Serwer, J. D . Gene Davis, A Memorial Exhibition. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987 (catalogue) |
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1984 |
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Gene Davis: The Random and the Ordered. Kansas City: University of Missouri Gallery of Art, 1984 |
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1982 |
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Baro, G. Gene Davis Drawings. New York: Arts Publisher, 1982 |
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1977 |
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Gene Davis: Rectangle Paintings. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977 (catalogue) |
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1975 |
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Wall, D. (ed.). Gene Davis. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975 |
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1968 |
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Gene Davis, An Exhibition. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968 (catalogue) |
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