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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Jerry Louis, 2003 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Jerry Louis, 2003, 2003

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  2. Lighten Up by Ce Scott-Fitts, Image 1.

    Ce Scott-Fitts

    Lighten Up, 1991

    Mixed media

    31.5 x 23.125 x 2.75 in (80.01 x 58.74 x 6.99 cm)

  3. Lo Scratches Her Knee by Graham Ovenden, Image 1.

    Graham Ovenden

    Lo Scratches Her Knee, 1975

    Etching on paper

    26 x 25.875 in (66.04 x 65.72 cm)

  4. Elliptical Landscape by Robert Freimark, Image 1.

    Robert Freimark

    Elliptical Landscape, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    22.1875 x 29.5 in (56.36 x 74.93 cm)

  5. Fiore Noterno by Emilio Pucci, Image 1.

    Emilio Pucci

    Fiore Noterno, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

    25.75 x 18.25 in (65.41 x 46.36 cm)

  6. Arc Within a Square VI by Gordon House, Image 1.

    Gordon House

    Arc Within a Square VI, 1971

    Etching on paper

    24.75 x 17.875 in (62.87 x 45.4 cm)

  7. Reddy Motors and a Ford, Dublin by Alen MacWeeney, Image 2.

    Alen MacWeeney

    Reddy Motors and a Ford, Dublin, 1963

    Archival pigment print

    13 x 19 in (33.02 x 48.26 cm)

  8. Untitled, from RISD Portfolio by Jane Tuckerman Foley, Image 1.

    Jane Tuckerman Foley

    Untitled, from RISD Portfolio, 1974/75

    Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board

    8.25 x 5.5 in (20.96 x 13.97 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.