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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

    Wasatch Winter, 2002

    Lithograph on Arches paper

    37.75 x 24.5 in (95.89 x 62.23 cm)

  2. Wedding, Hands Around Back, NYC, Social Context by Larry Fink, Image 1.

    Larry Fink

    Wedding, Hands Around Back, NYC, Social Context, 1988

    Gelatin silver print

    19.875 x 15.875 in (50.48 x 40.32 cm)

  3. Polka Dots and the Moon Beams by George Raymond Kerciu, Image 1.

    George Raymond Kerciu

    Polka Dots and the Moon Beams, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    22.25 x 15 in (56.52 x 38.1 cm)

  4. Hummock - Inside Magic Hill by Bob Camblin, Image 1.

    Bob Camblin

    Hummock - Inside Magic Hill, 1976

    Watercolor on paper

    20 x 28 in (50.8 x 71.12 cm)

  5. The Chanter by Hanne Greaver, Image 1.

    Hanne Greaver

    The Chanter, 1972

    Woodcut on paper

    32 x 24.0625 in (81.28 x 61.12 cm)

  6. Untitled by Simmons Jones, Image 1.

    Simmons Jones

    Untitled, 1964

    Offset print on paper mounted to board

    14.5 x 10 in (36.83 x 25.4 cm)

  7. Parking Lot, Volendam, Holland by Louis Stettner, Image 1.

    Louis Stettner

    Parking Lot, Volendam, Holland, 1962

    Gelatin silver print

    26.5 x 20.125 in (67.31 x 51.12 cm)

  8. Untitled by Maurice Sterne, Image 1.

    Maurice Sterne

    Untitled, No date

    Pencil on paper

    11.5 x 10 in (29.21 x 25.4 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.