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BORN:
DIED:
GRANTS, PUBLIC COMMISSIONS & AWARDS:
1984 |
Appointed Commissioner, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC |
1980 |
Commission Niagara, ARTPARK, Lewiston, NY |
1974 |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
1972 |
Commission Franklin 's Footpath, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1969 |
Commission, South Mall Project, New York State Capitol Building, Albany, NY |
1967 |
National Endowment for the Arts Grant |
1965 |
Bronze Medal for Painting, Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2004 |
Gene Davis: 1960s Stripe Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY * |
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Florian Sundheimer Kunsthandel, Munich, Germany |
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Color: Works from the Estate of the Artist, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC |
2003 |
Paintings and Drawings from the Estate of the Artist, Marsha Mateyka Gallery,
Washington, DC |
2001 |
Works from the Estate of the Artist, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC |
1997 |
A Review: Works from the Estate, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Works from the Estate of the Artist, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC |
1995 |
Gene Davis in Black and White: Drawings from the Fifties and Eighties, National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
1991 |
Selected Works, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC |
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Masterworks, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY * |
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Masterworks, B R Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, DC |
1990 |
Drawings: 1952-1982, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Paintings and Works on Paper, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL |
1988 |
A Survey, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY * |
1987 |
A Memorial Exhibition, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC * |
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Selected Works: 1960-1965, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Homage to Gene Davis, Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL |
1986 |
Focus: 1960-1966, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY * |
1985 |
Drawings, The Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL |
1984 |
Gene Davis: The Random and the Ordered, University of Missouri Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO * |
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The Stripe: Variations, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Drawings, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1983 |
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE |
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Recent Paintings, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Child and Man: A Collaboration, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC * |
1982 |
Thirty Years of Drawing, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY * |
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Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Grace Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL |
1981 |
The 1950's, Frank Kolbert Gallery, New York, NY |
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Drawings, Paintings, I. Irving Feldman Galleries, Sarasota, FL |
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The Stripe: Variations, 1959-1981, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC |
1980 |
Paintings of the Fifties and Recent Work, Protech McIntosh Gallery, Washington, DC |
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New Paintings and Drawings, Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD |
1979 |
Drawings: A Retrospective Exhibition (1952-1978), Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York, NY |
1978-79 |
Recent Paintings (1970-1978), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ; traveled to: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH ; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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The Elemental Stripe, Early and Late, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1977 |
Rectangle Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC * |
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1949-1960, Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1960-Present, Max Protech Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Rectangle Paintings: 1957-1958 / Grid Paintings: 1959, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1976 |
Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
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Drawings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1975 |
Paintings, 1960-1974, Reed College, Portland, OR |
1974 |
Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX |
1973 |
Drawings and Lithographs, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1972 |
Paintings by Gene Davis, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
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Paintings, 1969-1971, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City |
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Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
1971 |
Recent Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
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Early Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1970 |
The Early Paintings, 1952-1960, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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Paintings, 1958-1960, Henri Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1968 |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA * |
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Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC |
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Micro Paintings 1966, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
1967 |
Recent Paintings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA * |
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Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
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Sonata for Three Rooms, Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
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New Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
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Bilder 1964-1967, Galerie Ricke, Kassel, Germany |
1966 |
Selected Paintings, 1963-1966, Hofstra University, New York * |
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Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
1965 |
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
1963 |
First New York Exhibition, Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY |
1962 |
Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
1961 |
Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
1960 |
Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
1959 |
Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
1955 |
Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC |
1953 |
Catholic University, Washington, DC |
1952 |
Drawings, Dupont Theater Gallery, Washington, DC * |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2003-04 |
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany ; traveling to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; South African National Gallery, Cape Town |
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Painting by Design, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
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Strata, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
2003 |
Minimalism and After II: New Acquisitions, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
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That 70s Print Show, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY |
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Strata, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA |
2000-02 |
Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL; traveled 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 * |
2000 |
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, NY |
1999-2000 |
Birthday Tribute to Jacob Kainen and Selections from the Washington Color School, National Museum of American Art, Washington DC |
1998 |
In Our Time: Contemporary Art from the Bayly Art Musuem Collection, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
1997-1999 |
At The Threshold Of The Visible: Miniscule And Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996, curated by Ralph Rugoff, organized by Independent Curators, Inc.; traveled 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 * |
1995 |
Linear Abstractions, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Color of Abstraction, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC |
1990-91 |
Washington Color Painters, The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL * |
1990 |
The Power of Childhood, Wessel O'Connor, New York, NY |
1989 |
New Windows: Paintings from the 60's, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, NY |
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The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1988 |
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC |
1987 |
New Works by Gallery Artists, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Color: Pure and Simple, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT |
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Year One: A Survey, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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The Window in 20th Century Art, Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY * |
1986 |
Selections from the Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn Harbor, NY |
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The Heroic Sublime, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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Thanks for the Memories, Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA |
1985 |
The Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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Abstract Relationships, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
1984 |
Generations of the Washington Color School, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
1983 |
Abstractions from the Phillips Collection, Fenwick Library Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA * |
1982 |
Contemporary Art in Detroit Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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Thirty Painters: Given and Promised, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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Recent Trends in Collecting, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC |
1981 |
Neon Fronts: Luminous Art for the Urban Landscape, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC |
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Viewpoint '81, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
1980-81 |
American Drawings in Black & White, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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Paintings of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real / The Ideal / The Fantastic: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO; Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno * |
1977 |
The William C. Seitz Memorial Collection, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
1975 |
Richard Brown Baker Collects, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
1974 |
Selections from the Guggenheim Permanent Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
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Contemporary American Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH * |
1972 |
Color Forum, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin |
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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 |
1971 |
The Structure of Color, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY * |
1970 |
Ten Washington Artists: 1950-1970, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada * |
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Washington : Twenty Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD * |
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Vincent Melzac Collects: The Vincent Melzac Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC * |
1968 |
Gene Davis, Robert Irwin, Richard Smith, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY * |
1967 |
Thirtieth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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The Sixties, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Large Scale American Paintings, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY |
1966-67 |
Two Decades of American Painting (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY) traveled to: 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 * |
1966 |
Colorists: 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA * |
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Selected Paintings 1963 - 1966, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY |
1965-66 |
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to: St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD * |
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Washington Color Painters, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC; traveled to: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; University of California Art Gallery, Santa Barbara; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN * |
1964 |
Post Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA ; traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ; Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada * |
1963 |
Washington Artists Exhibition No. 21, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC * |
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Formalists, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC |
1959 |
Annual Group Show of Gallery Artists, Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC |
* = exhibition catalogue or pamphlet
Monographs:
Baro, Gene. Gene Davis Drawings . New York : Arts Publisher, 1982.
Naifeh, Steven W. Gene Davis . New York : Arts Publisher, 1982.
Serwer, Jacquelyn Days. Gene Davis: A Memorial Exhibition . Essays by Douglas Davis and Donald Kuspit. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press for National Museum of American Art, 1987.
Wall, Donald, ed. Gene Davis . Interviews by Walter Hopps, Barbara Rose, and Donald Wall. New York : Praeger Publishers, 1975.
Public Collections:
Akron Art Institute, Ohio
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
Carnegie-Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Denver Art Museum, CO
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Miami Art Museum, FL
Milwaukee Art Center, WS
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Princeton University Art Gallery, NJ
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
South Mall Project, Albany, NY
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
Tate Gallery, London
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Miami, FL
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT |
