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Breaking from the trend of Abstract Expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s, several artists in the late fifties gravitated toward a minimal abstraction, taking the frenzied paint strokes and formalizing them. Among these artists were Frank Stella, Morris Louis, Agnes Martin, and Gene Davis. Davis, a Washington, DC sportswriter-turned-painter, was part of the loosely-knit Washington Color School, along with Louis and Kenneth Noland, and perhaps the least known. Because of his seminal influence on later generations of painters, his relative obscurity, and primarily for his extraordinary (and still) contemporary paintings, Davis is included with the artists - all born after his first stripe works - in this exhibition.
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