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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Disclosures I by Shan Kelley, Image 1.

    Shan Kelley

    Disclosures I, 2013

    Needle-perforated parchment and printed paper

    35.75 x 24 in (90.81 x 60.96 cm)

  2. Château Freyr, Belgium by Lynn Geesaman, Image 1.

    Lynn Geesaman

    Château Freyr, Belgium, 2004

    Chromogenic print

    28 x 28 in (71.12 x 71.12 cm)

  3. Six in Vermilion with Green in Yellow by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    Six in Vermilion with Green in Yellow, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    28.25 x 39.75 in (71.76 x 100.97 cm)

  4. Teenagers on Beach with Radio, Coney Island, NY, from Photographer's Choice: Harold Feinstein-Decades Four by Harold Feinstein, Image 1.

    Harold Feinstein

    Teenagers on Beach with Radio, Coney Island, NY, from Photographer's Choice: Harold Feinstein-Decades Four, 1949

    Gelatin silver print

    11.125 x 14.125 in (28.26 x 35.88 cm)

  5. Traubel by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    Traubel, 1944

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  6. Naturaliste, rue de l'école de médecine by Eugene Atget, Image 1.

    Eugene Atget

    Naturaliste, rue de l'école de médecine, 1926-1927

    Gelatin silver print

    9 x 6.5 in (22.86 x 16.51 cm)

  7. Unknown

    St. Nicholas Cathedral, Famagusta, from "Unspoiled Cyprus", c. 1920

    Digital print on paper

    14 x 17.625 in (35.56 x 44.77 cm)

  8. Butterfly by Douglas Houchens, Image 1.

    Douglas Houchens

    Butterfly

    Lithograph on paper

    15.5 x 20.5 in (39.37 x 52.07 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.