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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Clever Hunter, Three Bobcats by Gay Rogers, Image 1.

    Gay Rogers

    Clever Hunter, Three Bobcats, 1979

    Lithograph on paper

    19.75 x 14.875 in (50.17 x 37.78 cm)

  2. Karel Appel

    Pink Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  3. Treelands by Ronald L. Ruble, Image 1.

    Ronald L. Ruble

    Treelands, 1978

    Etching on paper

    11.125 x 15 in (28.26 x 38.1 cm)

  4. Blue Wave by Robert Freimark, Image 1.

    Robert Freimark

    Blue Wave, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    30 x 17.875 in (76.2 x 45.4 cm)

  5. Tseruf by Harvey Breverman, Image 1.

    Harvey Breverman

    Tseruf, 1970

    Lithograph on paper

    24 x 17.75 x 1.5 in (60.96 x 45.09 x 3.81 cm)

  6. Stone with The Angel by Arthur Polonsky, Image 10.

    Arthur Polonsky

    Stone with The Angel, 1969

    Lithograph on paper

    15.75 x 12.875 in (40.01 x 32.7 cm)

  7. Figure Study by Michael Mazur, Image 1.

    Michael Mazur

    Figure Study, 1963

    Lithograph on paper

    22.9375 x 28 in (58.26 x 71.12 cm)

  8. Carotte Dramatique, from The Drama Hoax by Honoré Daumier, Image 1.

    Honoré Daumier

    Carotte Dramatique, from The Drama Hoax, 1844

    Lithograph on white wove paper

    19.625 x 16.25 in (49.85 x 41.28 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.