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American painter

Gene Davis (August 22, - April 6, ) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color.

Biography

Davis was born in Washington, D.C., in and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in , he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Football Team and other local teams.

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Working as a journalist in the late s, he covered the Roosevelt and Truman presidential administrations, and was often President Truman's partner for poker games.^[1] His first art studio was in his apartment on Scott Circle; later he worked out of a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue. In the s, Gene Davis, with Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis was one of a small group of painters called the Washington Color School who made experimentation with colours.

In Washington he closely studied works in the Phillips Collection including paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Paul Klee, to which he later attribu Gene Davis | Licorice Stick (1961) - MutualArt RUXAW