DAVIS CONE (b. November 2, 1950 in Augusta, Georgia)

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

1972-73          University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1968-72         Mercer University, Macon, GA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013              Recent Works, Forum Gallery, New York, NY         

2006             Recent Works, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005             Recent Works, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2001              Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                      Forum Gallery, New York, NY

1998              O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1994              O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1991               O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1988              O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1984              O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1983-84        Davis Cone: Theatre Paintings 1977 – 1983, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA - Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

1982             O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981              O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1979             O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014             Photorealism: The Sydney & Walda Bestoff Collection, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

                     Resonating Images III: The Contemporary Narrative, The William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art at California Lutheran University,

                     Thousand Oaks, CA

2013             Still Life: 1970s Photorealism, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

                     Singular Vision, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

                     Ivan’s Choices: Icons of Hyper-Realism, O. K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

                     Photorealism Revisited, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH

2012-17         Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

                     Traveled to:

         Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

         Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

         Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

         Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Spain

         Kumu Art Museum of Estonia Tallinn, Estonia

                     Musee d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

                     Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany

2012             Photorealism, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec, Canada        

                     Beyond Reality: Hyperrealism and American Culture, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL

2010-12        Realism: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

2011-12         Four Decades of Photorealism: The Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection, Mana Art Center, Jersey City, NJ

2011             That Seventies Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2010            Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2009           American Photorealism, National Museum, Krakow, Poland

                    40 Years of Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY                   

                    The City: Day and Night, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2008-09     The Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

2007           Photorealism Today, Plus One Gallery, London

                    The Contemporary Landscapes Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2006           Photorealism: Cultural Icons, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005           Important New Works by Forum Gallery Artists, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2004-05     American Photorealism, Organized by Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NY

                    Traveled to:

                    Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan

                    City Museum of Iwaki, Iwake, Japan

                    Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan

                    Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan

                    Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

2004           Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2003-04     Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2003           Precision, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002           New Works by Forum Artists, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

                    Photorealism: The Liff Collection, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

                    Photorealism at the Millennium, Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY

2001            Realism from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Edison College of Fine Art, Ft. Myers, FL

                    Can You Believe Your Eyes?, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2000           The Photo Realists, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

1996            A Survey of Contemporary Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

                    Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, 

                    Centre College, Danville, KY

1995            Street Seen, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY

1994            An American Vision, Photorealism, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1993           Photorealism Since 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1992           Photorealism from Nashville Collections, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN

                   Stars in Florida, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

                   New York; City By Day / City By Night, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

                   For Real, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

1991-92      American Realism & Figurative Art; 1955 – 1990

                   Traveled to:

                   The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan

                   Sogo Museum of Art, Sogo Japan

                   Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan

                   Museum of Art, Shiba, Japan

                   Kochi Perfectual Museum of Folk Art, Kochi, Japan

                   Japan Association of Art Museum, Yomiuri Shimbun

1991            Get Real, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

                   Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art in the 80’s from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadow  

                   Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1990           The Best of Nashville: The Arlene and Raymond Zimmerman Collection, Downtown Gallery, Nashville, TN

1990           New York at Night, Helander Gallery, New York, NY

1989           New York; City by Day/ City by Night, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

1988           Tortue Is O.K, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987           Urban Visions: The Contemporary Artist and New York, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

1987           Fifty -First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

                  Nocturnes and Nightmares, Florida University Gallery and Museum

1986          Nocturnal Imagery, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1985          Places Here and Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

                  American Realism, The Precise Image, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1984          Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford County, Fairfield, CT

1981-83     Contemporary American Realism Since 1960

                 Traveled To: 

                 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

                 Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

                 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

                 Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

                 Salas de Exposiciones (Recoletos), Madrid, Spain

                 Kunsthalle Nuremberg, West, Germany

1981          Visions of New York City: American Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of the 20th Century, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum,

                 Tokyo, Japan

1979-80    Southern Realism

                  Traveled to:

                  Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

                  University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS

                  Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA

                  Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL

                  Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

1979          Seven Georgia Artist, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1978-79     Artist in Georgia, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1977          Southern Artists, Gertrude Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, GA

BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS

Photorealism in the Digital Age, by Louis K. Meisel, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, NY, 2013.

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, by Linda Chase, Nina Knoll, Otto Letz, and Daniel Schreiber, published by Hatje Cantz Verlat, Germany, 2013.

Seven Bridges Collection, by Edward Lucie-Smith, published by Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT, 2009.

The Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Painting and Sculpture, Katherine Hinds, Klaus Kertess, and Peter Plagens, Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, 2008.

Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, by Dede Young, Collectors Press Publications, Portland, Oregon 2007.

Photo-Realism at the Millenium, by Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 2002.

Popcorn Palaces: The Art Deco Theatre Paintings of Davis Cone, by Michael D. Kinerk, and Dennis W. Wilhelm, Harry N. Abrams, Inc,      New York, 2001.

Photo-Realism Since 1980, by Louis K. Meiser, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.

The Fine Art Index, 1992, North American Edition, International Art Reference Inc., Chicago, IL, 1992.

Hollywood on Main Street: The Movie House Paintings of Davis Cone, by Linda Chase, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 1988.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: CATALOGS

Davis Cone: Recent Works, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, "Realer than Real: The Art of Davis Cone," essay by Carter Ratcliff, 2013.

American Photorealism From the Collection of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel, The National Museum of Krakow, Krakow Poland, essay by Magdalena Czubinska, 2009.

Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, essay by Valerie Ann Leeds, 2008.

Photorealism Today, Plus One Gallery, London, essay by Charlotte Goodwin, 2007.

Photorealism: Cultural Icons, Johnathan Novak Contemporary Art, essay by Louis K. Meisel, 2006.

Davis Cone: Recent Works, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, "Finding the "Present," essay by Carter Ratcliff, 2005.

American Photorealism, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, NJ, essay by Linda Chase, 2004.

Seeing Photographically: Photorealist Paintings, The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans, LA, introduction by Hanneke Grootenboer, 2004.

Photorealism: The Life Collection, The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, essay by Linda Chase, 2001.

A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 1996.

New Art in an Old City/ 2, Virlane Foundation and K & B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA, essay by Edward Lucie-Smith, 1994.

Stars In Florida, Museum of Art, Lauderdale, FL, introdiction by Dr. Kenworth W. Moffet, 1992.

American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 1991.

Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art of The 80’s from The Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, text by Kiichi Usui, 1991.

In Sharp Focus: Super – Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, introduction by Constance Schwartz, 1991.

New Art in an Old City, The Virlane Foundation and The K&B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA.

Fifty- First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1987.

Nocturnes and Nightmares, Florida State University Gallery & Museum, Tallahassee, FL, text by Craig Adcock, 1987.

Places Here & Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, 1985.

American Realism: The Precise Image, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, text by John Arthur, 1985.

Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford County, Fairfield, CT, essay by Pamela Gruninger Perkins, 1984.

Davis Cone: Theatre Paintings 1977-1983, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, essay by Linda Chase, 1983.

Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, New York Graphic Society, Boston, MA, by Frank A. Goodyear Jr., 1981.

Visions of New York City, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, text by Tom Armstrong, 1981.

Seven Artists in Georgia, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1979.

Southern Realism, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, text by John B. Henry III, Tom Dewey, Michael E. Kampen, 1979.

Artists in Georgia, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1979.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Alpert Family Trust Mills, MA

E. Jean Belloni, Geneva, Switzerland

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Ivan and Marilynn Karp, New York, NY

John Sacret Young, Los Angeles, CA

K&B Inc., New Orleans, LA

Lawrence Kasdan, Beverly Hills, CA

Martin Margulies, Coconut Grove, FL

Morris Museum of Art, August, GA

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Pierre Lescure, Paris, France

Posco, Pohang Iron and Steel, Seoul, South Korea

Raymond Zimmerman, Nashville, TN

Richard Brown Baker, New York, NY

Sidney Sheinberg, Los Angeles, CA

Steven Spielberg, Los Angeles, CA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT