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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Robert Amberg

    Hoy Shelton Family Hanging Tobacco, Hopewell, North Carolina, 1983

    Gelatin silver print

    8.125 x 12.125 in (20.64 x 30.8 cm)

  2. Pillow Jungle by Hunt Slonem, Image 1.

    Hunt Slonem

    Pillow Jungle, 1980

    Silkscreen on paper

    26 x 29.375 in (66.04 x 74.61 cm)

  3. Portrait by DeWitt Hardy, Image 1.

    DeWitt Hardy

    Portrait, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

  4. Untitled (Plate 2) by Jean Dewasne, Image 1.

    Jean Dewasne

    Untitled (Plate 2), 1972

    Serigraph on aluminum

    24.75 x 43.5 in (62.87 x 110.49 cm)

  5. Old Lady on Beach by David Levine, Image 1.

    David Levine

    Old Lady on Beach, 1963

    Lithograph on paper

    23 x 14.875 in (58.42 x 37.78 cm)

  6. Todd Webb

    Bar Entrance, Mexico City, 1962

    Gelatin silver print mounted to board

    13.5 x 10.5 in (34.29 x 26.67 cm)

  7. ICP Peter Beard Opening, New York, NY, November 1977 by Larry Fink, Image 2.

    Larry Fink

    ICP Peter Beard Opening, New York, NY, November 1977, 1977, printed 2019

    Archival pigment print

    22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm)

  8. Gina, at YMCA Pool, 02/03 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Gina, at YMCA Pool, 02/03

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 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.