Gene Davis’s striking 1964 painting, Hot Beat, is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection.

He was quoted saying, “it seemed to feel right, as we entered the sixties, to have color that leaped right off the wall . . . It’s almost as if I wanted to shout, rather than to whisper.”

You’ll definitely be writing boldly with this Tornado twist-top rollerball printed in matching stripes to replicate the painting.

Custom-designed tube features the same pattern