Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 – April 6, 1985) was an American painter. He was a part of a group of abstract painters, the Washington Color School that resided in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s. He was famous for painting vertical stripes of color. Learn more »
Paintings by Gene Davis in Chronological Order
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| Composition I, 1949 | Homage to Dubuffet I, 1952 | Angel Vine, 1952 |
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| Bird Land, 1952 | Saber Dance, 1952 | Bridge, 1952 |
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| Seascape, 1952 | Inner Space, 1952 | Leap Frog, 1952 |
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| Red Line, 1952 | Autumn, 1955 | Man at the Pump, 1955 |
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| Christmas Tree, 1956 | Dog and Flowers, 1957 | Stripes, 1957 |
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| Salute, 1958 | Bay, 1958 | Blue Rectangle II, 1958 |
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| Leaping Horse, 1958 | Green Glow, 1958 | Red Devil, 1959 |
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| Two Yellows, 1959 | Untitled, 1959 | Pumpkin, 1959 |
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| Peeping Wall, 1960 | Homage to Matisse, 1960 | Sweet Score-Skylark, 1960 |
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| Pink Stripe, 1960 | End Stripes, 1960 | Pin Stripes, 1960 |
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| Celtic Dawn, 1960 | Sunball, 1960 | Red Dog, 1961 |
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| Tom’s Furnace, 1961 | Alice Tully Hall Sampler, 1961 | Licorice Stick, 1961 |
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| Wall Stripes No. 3, 1962 | Citadel, 1962 | Untitled, 1962 |
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| Triple Jump, 1962 | Black Grey Beat, 1964 | Sour Ball Beat, 1964 |
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| Untitled, 1964 | Solar Skin, 1964 | Hot Beat, 1964 |
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| Boudoir Painting, 1965 | Hot Susan, 1965 | Split Beat, 1965 |
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| Flamingo, 1965 | Red Witch, 1966 | Pepper Pot, 1966 |
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| Red Baron, 1966 | Orange Twitter, 1966 | Raspberry Icicle, 1967 |
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| Circus Sounds, 1967 | Passion Flower, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 |
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| Barricades, c.1968 | Micro-Painting, 1968 | Apricot Ripple, 1968 |
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| Gothic Jab, 1968 | Tarzan (Series I), 1969 | Half Lemon, 1969 |
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| Yoyo, 1969 | Sweet Carburetor, 1969 | Jack-in-the-Box, 1969 |
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| King Kong, 1969 | Powwow, 1969 | Graf Zeppelin, 1969 |
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| Black Panther, 1970 | Battle for Grownups, 1970 | Green Stripes, 1970 |
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| Lincoln Center, 1971 | Untitled #156, 1971 | Franklin’s Footpath, 1972 |
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| Diamond Jim, 1972 | Butterfly, 1972 | Signal, 1973 |
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| Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Tenth Anniversary Poster, 1975 | Midnight Watch, 1976 | Untitled (Pink Stripes-Gray Box), 1976 |
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| Untitled, 1976 | Eskimo Map, 1976 | Royal Canoe, 1977 |
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| Renoir’s Curtain, 1977 | King’s Gate, 1978 | Red Baron, 1978 |
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| Black Friar, 1978 | Untitled, 1978 | Jumping Jack, 1978 |
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| Deep Six, 1979 | Niagara, 1979 | Untitled, 1979 |
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| Untitled, 1979 | Untitled, 1979 | Untitled, 1979 |
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| Circus, 1979 | Smithsonian Resident Associates Program 1980 (15th Anniversary Poster), 1980 | Monet’s Garden, 1980 |
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| Untitled (Pink, Yellow and White), 1980 | Yukon Sonata, 1981 | Banjo, 1981 |
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| Birth, 1981 | Boxcar, 1981 | Cross Fire, 1981 |
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| Joy Ride, 1981 | Islam, 1981 | Concord, 1982 |
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| Death Heads, 1982 | Animals, 1983 | Sun Sonata, 1983 |
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| Moroccan Midnight, 1984 | Red Picnic, 1984 | Untitled, 1985 |
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| Untitled, 1985 | Looking Glass | Untitled (MP21-25) |