Licorice Stick
Object Details
- Artist
- Gene Davis
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 103 13/16 × 13 9/16 in. (263.7 × 34.5 cm)
- Frame: 104 5/8 × 14 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (265.8 × 37.2 × 3.8 cm)
- Cite As
- Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Jim and Mary Singer and Tom and Jane Singer)
- Caption
- Fifty-five thin stripes span this long, vertical canvas in a cool, dark palette that includes browns, greens, and blues. The painting is a characteristic work of Washington Color School artist Gene Davis, best known for his stripe paintings. Though his earlier work in the 1960s featured thick stripes with hard edges, here he uses softer edges and a more muted color palette typical of his oeuvre in the 1970s and 1980s. Measuring over eight feet high, the scale and intensity of the painting encourages a meditation on color. The title draws attention to how color can vividly evoke senses beyond sight, like the bittersweetness of licorice.
- Accession Number
- 2019.1.18
- Type
- painting
- See more items in
- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2019.1.18
