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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Thamyris by Will Petersen, Image 1.

    Will Petersen

    Thamyris, 1983

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 19.125 in (38.1 x 48.58 cm)

  2. Musing by Will Petersen, Image 1.

    Will Petersen

    Musing, 1983

    Lithograph on paper

    15.0625 x 19.125 in (38.26 x 48.58 cm)

  3. Desert Dancer by Will Petersen, Image 1.

    Will Petersen

    Desert Dancer, 1983

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22.375 in (38.1 x 56.83 cm)

  4. Valerie Bettis - Desperate Heart by Barbara Morgan, Image 1.

    Barbara Morgan

    Valerie Bettis - Desperate Heart, 1944

    Gelatin silver print

    17.0625 x 13.875 in (43.34 x 35.24 cm)

  5. The Lodge for La Nuit de Babylon by Jules Pascin, Image 1.

    Jules Pascin

    The Lodge for La Nuit de Babylon, 1925

    Etching and aquatint on paper

  6. General Dynamic F.U.N. Hermaphroditic Children from Transvestite Parents by Eduardo Paolozzi, Image 1.

    Eduardo Paolozzi

    General Dynamic F.U.N. Hermaphroditic Children from Transvestite Parents, 1965/70

    Photolithograph

    15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

  7. General Dynamic F.U.N. Llalla Pallooza...Image fades but memory lingers on by Eduardo Paolozzi, Image 1.

    Eduardo Paolozzi

    General Dynamic F.U.N. Llalla Pallooza...Image fades but memory lingers on, 1965/70

    Photolithograph

    15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

  8. General Dynamic F.U.N. Cary Grant as a male war bride by Eduardo Paolozzi, Image 1.

    Eduardo Paolozzi

    General Dynamic F.U.N. Cary Grant as a male war bride, 1965/70

    Photolithograph

    15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 cm)

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About the artist

Will Petersen

American

1928–1994

American master painter, printer, and cartoonist. He was also a poet, an abstract expressionist, and a Beat Era painter born in Chicago, Illinois. He acted in Japanese B-movies and was the owner of Evanston's Plucked Chicken Press, which he started with his third wife. In 1952, he was drafted by the US Army and sent to Korea, then to Hokkaido, Japan. He learned the art of calligraphy under Master Tahaa and fell in love with ancient Noh plays, as he continued to perform in a troupe while teaching English at Japanese colleges and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. He then moved back to United States to teach drawing at Ohio State University with his family. After divorcing his Japanese wife, he married Cynthia Archer, a printmaking graduate from Wester Virginia University, where he taught as the head of the printmaking department. In his remaining years until his death in 1994, he solely focused on his own works.