Artist: Alan Davie (1920 - )
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Alan Davie served in the British army and worked as jazz musician before taking up a career in the arts. He was inspired by a trip across Europe from 1948 to 1949 during which he encountered the work of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract-Expressionist painters. He was one of the British artists to adopt the movement, but Davie also found other influences in African sculpture and Zen Buddhism. His international reputation was founded in the 1960’s and continues to date.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Alan Davie, untitled, plate on p. 25 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Alan Davie, untitled, plate on p. 24 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Alan Davie, untitled, plate on inside front cover-p. 1 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Alan Davie - Big Solid Sender 1964 oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma English
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Alan Shields, Shield, 1974
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Alan Magee, Ghost, 1980
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Alan Parker, Triglyph, 1961
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Alan Parker, Cadenza #629, 1956
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Alan Parker, Cubistic Abstraction, 1958
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Alan Evan Feltus, The Window, 1981
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Alan Magee, Ceremony of Innocence, 1984
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Alan Crane, Guanajuato Street, 20th century
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Leonard Baskin, Alan Odle, thirty-first plate in the book, Icones librorum artifices ([Leeds, Mass.]: Gehenna Press, 1988), 1988
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Reproduced by courtesy of Ian McKeever and the Alan Cristea Gallery, London ; Ian McKeever,
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Alan Beeton - Posing c. 1929 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Alan Beeton - Reposing c. 1929 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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© Joe Novak ; Joe Novak, American, Born in 1930 Pentimento 1996 Acrylic on paper
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Alan Fenton - Transitional Cape 1974 synthetic polymer: a Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Marked by Nicholas Sprimont, 1716-1770 Stand for a Tureen London, England England, (London), 1745 Silver
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© Alan Bowness, the Hepworth Estate ; Barbara Hepworth, British, 1903-1975 Rock Form (Porthcurno) 1964
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Alan Goldfarb, Born in 1959 Claw beaker: "That"s a spicy Meatball" United States, Vermont, (Burlington),
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Funerary Model of a Pig Sty Date: 2nd century B.C. Medium:
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Bernard Chaet, Pears, 1986
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Artist: Henry Hershel Hay Cameron Title: George Frederick Watts, R.A. Date: 1893 Medium: photogravure Dimensions:
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Artist: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron Title: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Date: 1888 Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.9-11/16
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Helmet mask bird shaped, 19 - 20th century
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Thomas Cornell, L. B. (Portrait of Leonard Baskin), 1964
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Robert Shurlock (1779-1847), 1801 John Russell (British, 1745-1806)Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas; 23
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Mori Kansai, 1814-1894 Ode to the Red Cliff Hanging scroll Japanese Edo period, dated 1864
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Nakabayashi Chikkei, 1816-1867 Ode to the Red Cliff Hanging scroll Japanese Edo period, 19th century
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Lute (tambura) North India, 19th century Gourd, jakwood 40.5 x 135 cm (15 15/16 x
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Sakai Hoitsu, 1761-1828 Heron and Lotus Hanging scroll Japanese Edo period, late 18th–early 19th century
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Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure Egyptian Late period 664–332 B.C. Wood with gesso and gold leaf Height: 78
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Giovanni Fattori, Italian, 1825-1908 Woman Carrying Wood on her Head (Boscaiola) 1890s Etching with direct
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Unidentified artist, American, mid-19th century The Lady with a Red Shawl about 1840 Oil on
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© Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation ; Jacob Lawrence,
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Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820-1882 Seascape (The Mediterranean with Mount Agde) 1856-59 Photograph, albumen print
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William Tylee Ranney, American, 1813-1857 Duck Hunters on the Hoboken Marshes 1849 Oil on canvas
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Frédéric Boucheron, French, firm established 1858 Inkstand 1876 Silver, parcel-gilt, with champlevé, basse-taille, and cloisonné
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Painter Konnakis Painter Mixing bowl (kalyx krater) South Italian, Apulian; Gnathian Ware; Krater; Phlyax Vase

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Alan Davie
Thisexhibition, which celebrates Davie's eightieth birthday, is drawn entirely from the Gallery's unrivalled holding of his work. It features some twenty-five larg...
Center on Contemporary Art: Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection
ContemporaryArtProject LLC, founded in August 1999 by curator Linda Farris, collects cutting edge international art toeventually be gifted to museums. In the interim, individual works rotate between members' homes and are available for museum loan...
Young at Art Childrens Museum: Call for Artists: Young At Art Photography Competition
Details: http://www.youngatartmuseum.org AWARDS · Best Overall Entry: $1,000 cash prize · Best Color Print: $100 cash prize · Best Black & White Print: $100 cash prize ...
Young at Art Childrens Museum: Call to Artists: Amateur Adult Photographers Exhibition (Ages 16 - 99)
Details: http://www.youngatartmuseum.org
http://www.youngatartmuseum.org/photocontest.php AWARDS
· Best Overall Entry: $1,000 ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: The Print Show
For over 30 years Cambridge has been a centre of excellence and innovation in printmaking, attracting artists from around the world. Each studio has its own area of expertise - lithography at The Curwen Studio, screenprinting at The Print Studi...
Edinburgh Printmakers: Christmas Exhibition at the UKs Oldest Open-access Print Studio
The exhibition of invited artists ranges from internationally established artists including: John Bellany, Philip Braham, Alan Davie, Liz Douglas, Kate Downie, Paul Furneaux, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, John Mclean, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gill Tyson an...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
Woman Made Gallery: Fabrications: Cat Chow, Anne Elizabeth and Jill Ziccardi
Cat Chow is showing three new works from her Mourning Gowns series which is inspired by Victorian mourning/memorial jewelry.  Chow’s work blurs the distinctions between sculpture, fashion and architecture. She manipulates everyday objects into fa...

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