About Cleveland Art Association (carta)

Artist: David Davis (d. 2002)

David E. Davis (1920-2002) was a painter and master abstract sculptor who worked primarily in steel, aluminum, bronze, wood, and marble. Nearly forty years of Davis’s life was spent creating a large oeuvre of sculpture distinguished by its innovation and exquisite craftsmanship. He has been described as a “high modernist…keeping faith with ideas of beauty, aesthetics, and timeless universal content”.

Davis attended L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France for some time, but eventually obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cleveland Institute of Art. He then went on to complete his Master of Fine Arts degree at Case Western Reserve University.

Davis was a recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize in 1980 and took home other awards, like the Major Sculpture Prize for Harmonic Grid XXVII at the 58th Annual May Show and a special mention for Inter-Rim at the 64th Annual May Show.

He exhibited works at 12 May Shows in total from 1971 to 1990 at the Cleveland Museum of Art and had solo shows at the Akron Institute of Art (1972), the American Library in Bucharest, Romania (1976), and the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida (1993).

His works can be found within the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Jewish Museum in New York, and private collections, such as Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Museum, Key Bank, and The Progressive Corporation.

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Artist: David Davis (d. 2002)