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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Self Portrait as the Immortal Amaranthus With Pleides at his Shoulder, from "Cloistered Order" series by Raymond Grubb, Image 1.

    Raymond Grubb

    Self Portrait as the Immortal Amaranthus With Pleides at his Shoulder, from "Cloistered Order" series, 2020

    Archival inkjet print

    19 x 13 in (48.26 x 33.02 cm)

  2. Lecture - Law Fever Flux Encounter by Alan Saret, Image 1.

    Alan Saret

    Lecture - Law Fever Flux Encounter, 1983

    Pencil on paper

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  3. The Ground Above Us by Howard Kanovitz, Image 1.

    Howard Kanovitz

    The Ground Above Us, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    32.875 x 24 in (83.5 x 60.96 cm)

  4. "Vernalia," Reganton, Mississippi, 1979 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    "Vernalia," Reganton, Mississippi, 1979, 1979

    Chromogenic print

  5. Jets by Julian Trevelyan, Image 1.

    Julian Trevelyan

    Jets, 1974

    Etching on paper

    30.75 x 22.75 in (78.11 x 57.79 cm)

  6. January 1973: 19 by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    January 1973: 19, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    27.25 x 35 in (69.22 x 88.9 cm)

  7. In The Studio by John Edward Heliker, Image 1.

    John Edward Heliker

    In The Studio, 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    13.25 x 9.625 in (33.66 x 24.45 cm)

  8. Street Scene in Downtown Zurich, Switzerland by Todd Webb, Image 1.

    Todd Webb

    Street Scene in Downtown Zurich, Switzerland, 1949

    Gelatin silver print

    13.25 x 9 in (33.66 x 22.86 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.