“I never plan my color more than five stripes ahead and often change my mind before I reach the third stripe.” – Gene Davis, 1971
Start the weekend with some jazzy stripes from Gene Davis. Davis is primarily known for his bold stripe works, which range from minuscule micro-paintings to mammoth outdoor street pieces.
This one, “Raspberry Icicle” (1967), stretches almost 10 feet tall and more than 18 feet wide.
Davis often compared himself to a jazz musician who plays by ear, describing his approach to painting as “playing by eye.”
See 15 classic stripe paintings from the 1960s, some of which haven’t been seen publicly in decades due to their huge size, through April 2 in “Gene Davis: Hot Beat” at our @americanartmuseum.
