Gene Davis Hot Beat Mug

• Designed exclusively for the Smithsonian. 
• Holds 14 oz. 
• Comfortable C-shaped handle
• White interior.
• Dishwasher and microwave safe. 

Gene Davis was a Washington, DC artist and part of the 1960’s Washington Color School art movement. He regarded the stripe as “Subject matter – in the same way that one artist uses the nude and another landscape.” Davis described his method as “Extremely romantic, chaotic, intuitive – anything but careful and calculated.”

Image Credit: Gene Davis, Hot Beat, 1964, acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation