Robert Davey Painted Tray 1950s Bread Wine Onion 22.5”x12” Green.
Green painted tray with handle cut outs. It looks like the art may have been added after. There are scratched and paint loss on the back, and some light paint splotches on the side near handle.
I am not sure if this is original or not
Robert Davey was active in San Francisco California and works were represented and exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Also was known to sell from his gallery in Carmel, California. Museum quality work. Known for his primitive style oils and acrylic painting. Collectible CA Calif. modern, mid Century modernist folk art painter
Robert Saunders Davey was born in 1930, died in 1994 and was primarily influenced creatively by the 1950s. In the Post-War period the lens of modernism was focused, in terms of internationally, on developments in New York City. The Second World War had brought many important creatives to the city in exile from Europe, leading to a noteworthy pooling of talent and ideas. Important Europeans that came to New York and provided inspiration for American artists included Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and Hans Hoffmann, who between them set the basis of much of the United States’ explosive cultural growth in the subsequent decades. It can be said that the 1950s were dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised expressive brushstrokes and expressed ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal properties of painting, and ideas of action painting were unified with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strict nature of the Soviet bloc. Important artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock (who innovated his famed drip, splatter and pour painting techniques), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, but necessary revisionism of this period has underlined the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others
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