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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited by Hank Willis Thomas, Image 2.

    Hank Willis Thomas

    With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited, 2025

    Bronze

  2. Charlie Ritch, 2003 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Charlie Ritch, 2003, 2003

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  3. Untitled (C) by Joel Shapiro, Image 1.

    Joel Shapiro

    Untitled (C), 2003

    Woodcut printed on Gampi paper, mounted onto Hanga Dosa paper

    26.25 x 18.34 in (66.68 x 46.58 cm)

  4. Untitled by Barbara Gilson, Image 2.

    Barbara Gilson

    Untitled, 1990

    Gelatin silver print

    9.875 x 7.875 in (25.08 x 20.0 cm)

  5. Crystal Ball by Hunt Slonem, Image 1.

    Hunt Slonem

    Crystal Ball, 1980

    Silkscreen on paper

    22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

  6. Astyanax by Stanley William Hayter, Image 1.

    Stanley William Hayter

    Astyanax, 1979

    Engraving on paper

    15.75 x 11.5 in (40.01 x 29.21 cm)

  7. Dried Artichokes by Laura Grosch, Image 1.

    Laura Grosch

    Dried Artichokes, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    29.625 x 22.125 in (75.25 x 56.2 cm)

  8. Horned Owl on Flowering Branch by Kubo Shunman, Image 1.

    Kubo Shunman

    Horned Owl on Flowering Branch, early 19th century

    Woodblock on paper

    8 x 7.25 in (20.32 x 18.42 cm)

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About the artist

Graham Ovenden

British

b. 1943

British painter, photographer, photo-historian, and writer. Ovenden studied at the Royal College of Music and Southampton School of Art and graduated from the Royal College of Art (1968). He was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1975). His work is extremely controversial, and he was prosecuted but not found guilty for a production of hoax calotypes which he claimed were of Victorian street children (1980). In the 1990s, his work was investigated by the US and UK authorities as possible child pornography. (2009) He was charged by the UK for creating indecent images, but the trials collapsed. A few years later, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault relating to the girls who modelled for him (2013). Many of his pieces have been either confiscated by the British government, banned by both countries, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible.