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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Billy Joel, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Billy Joel, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  2. Gulf Memo by Brian Cohen, Image 1.

    Brian Cohen

    Gulf Memo, 1993

    Etching and poem on paper

    29.75 x 22.25 in (75.57 x 56.52 cm)

  3. Chair Series #5 by Paul Harcharik, Image 1.

    Paul Harcharik

    Chair Series #5, 1980

    Hand-colored lithograph

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  4. Chinatown by Chryssa, Image 2.

    Chryssa

    Chinatown, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    38.75 x 31.25 in (98.43 x 79.38 cm)

  5. Untitled (Falling Man) by Ernest Trova, Image 1.

    Ernest Trova

    Untitled (Falling Man), 1978

    Steel

    12 x 11 x 25 in (30.48 x 27.94 x 63.5 cm)

  6. Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series, c. 1978

    Chromogenic print

    13.875 x 16.875 in (35.24 x 42.86 cm)

  7. May 1974 by Ray George, Image 1.

    Ray George

    May 1974, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    17.0625 x 24 in (43.34 x 60.96 cm)

  8. Hawaiian Goose, from Series I of the Vanishing Species of Birds, Plate IV by Richard Evans Younger, Image 1.

    Richard Evans Younger

    Hawaiian Goose, from Series I of the Vanishing Species of Birds, Plate IV, 1966

    Offset Lithograph on paper

    25.5 x 21.125 in (64.77 x 53.66 cm)

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About the artist

Gene Merritt

American

1936-2015

Gene Merritt was an American artist based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, who never left his home state after suffering from brain damage as a boy. He was self-taught, and his access to the external world came primarily through television. Therefore, much of his work was centered around the celebrity phenomenon, with portraits being drawn from memory or otherwise loosely based off of celebrities seen in film or on TV. He began drawing in 1992, and primarily used ballpoint pen to piece together fragments of the celebrity’s figure like a puzzle. His work is noted in the Collection de l’Art Brut.