Micro Painting
Object Details
- Artist
- Gene Davis
- Date
- 1966-1968
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- Frame: 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 × 1 in. (15.9 × 15.9 × 2.6 cm)
- Cite As
- Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Caption
- A bright pink dot appears to vibrate within a brown bullseye painted over a lavender field. This work reflects Washington Color School artist Gene Davis’s persistent interest in color, but it is the unusually small scale of the canvas that commands the viewer’s attention. Davis was known for experimenting with size, painting his signature stripes in larger-than-life scale on a city street and the walls of the rotunda at the Corcoran. This tiny work is part of Davis’s “Micro Painting” series, revealing how scale alters the relationship between colors.
- Accession Number
- 2019.1.17
- Type
- painting
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2019.1.17
