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Object Details
- Artist
- Gene Davis, born Washington, DC 1920-died Washington, DC 1985
- Exhibition Label
- Davis often broke his own rules. In Red Baron he juxtaposed stripes of different widths and sets of colors. He identified such visual conflict as "inherent in my personality...a schizoid quality. ...I've been hung up on paintings that are split down the middle."
- Gene Davis: Hot Beat, 2016
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Florence Coulson Davis
- ca. 1966
- Object number
- 1996.104.31
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78 3/4 x 40 3/8 in. (200.0 x 102.6 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract\geometric
- Record ID
- saam_1996.104.31
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72db083de-bbe9-4631-988a-ddf425bfe704
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