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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Homage to Mary Lou (Piano Lesson) by Romare Bearden, Image 1.

    Romare Bearden

    Homage to Mary Lou (Piano Lesson), 1984

    Lithograph on paper

    29.5 x 20.5 in (74.93 x 52.07 cm)

  2. Bench With Cactii by Pat Hardy, Image 1.

    Pat Hardy

    Bench With Cactii, 1977

    Etching on paper

    15.75 x 19.5 in (40.01 x 49.53 cm)

  3. Pyramid II by Doug Warner, Image 1.

    Doug Warner

    Pyramid II, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 12.75 in (38.1 x 32.39 cm)

  4. The First of Six Images for J by Bernard Cohen, Image 1.

    Bernard Cohen

    The First of Six Images for J, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

    18 x 36.25 in (45.72 x 92.08 cm)

  5. Sky Vision by Russell T. Gordon, Image 1.

    Russell T. Gordon

    Sky Vision, 1974

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    30.625 x 22.5 in (77.79 x 57.15 cm)

  6. Rider by Joseph George Gabin, Image 1.

    Joseph George Gabin

    Rider, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    22.3125 x 30.0625 in (56.67 x 76.36 cm)

  7. Save Our Planet by Ernest Trova, Image 1.

    Ernest Trova

    Save Our Planet, c. 1971

    Silkscreen

  8. Hedges by Nicholas Monro, Image 1.

    Nicholas Monro

    Hedges, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    27.5 x 40.125 in (69.85 x 101.92 cm)

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About the artist

Karel Appel

Dutch

1921-2006

Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions employed expressive colors and forms. Like Jean Dubuffet, Appel found inspiration in the artwork of children and the rejection of sophisticated aesthetic tastes. “Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast,” he reflected. “To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life.” A member of the international avant-garde group CoBrA, founded in Paris in 1948, Karel Appel is broadly known for the whimsical style of his expressionist paintings. Considered the European counterparts of the American Abstract Expressionists, Appel and other members of CoBrA privileged spontaneity in an intuitive, almost child-like approach to painting.