Gene Davis
Untitled
1954, oil on masonite,
30 x 42 inches.
“I had the instincts very early to know where to jump in, and I always felt that you should jump in at the most advanced point of art history, that is not to go back and borrow from earlier artists, but instead to pick up on the most advanced people, the assumption being that you could learn more from these Avant Garde artists than you could learn from other people.”
-Gene Davis
Gene Davis
Black Turmoil
1957, acrylic on canvas,
12 x 10 inches.
“The only requirement I make of art, and this may sound a little simplistic, is that it look good and continue looking good with the passage of time…That’s quite a demand actually, that something continue to look good forever.” [i]
-Gene Davis
[i] Gene Davis, Interviews by Walter Hopps, Barbara Rose, Donald Wall, edited by Donald Wall, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1975, p. 137
