Skip to profile content
Discovery
Log In

Additional Artworks

From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series, c. 1978

    Chromogenic print

    16.875 x 13.875 in (42.86 x 35.24 cm)

  2. Untitled by Richard Howard Hunt, Image 1.

    Richard Howard Hunt

    Untitled, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    13.75 x 11 in (34.93 x 27.94 cm)

  3. Fannie Bell Chapman, Centreville by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Fannie Bell Chapman, Centreville, 1972

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 17 in (27.94 x 43.18 cm)

  4. W. W. Keeler by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    W. W. Keeler, 1967

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 10.875 in (35.56 x 27.62 cm)

  5. Les deux mulets [The two mules], from Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, Paris, Tériade Editeur by Marc Chagall, Image 2.

    Marc Chagall

    Les deux mulets [The two mules], from Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, Paris, Tériade Editeur, 1952

    Etching on paper

    11.5 x 9.75 in (29.21 x 24.77 cm)

  6. New Story Magazine, cover illustration, Beach Scene, Two Men Fighting by N.C. Wyeth, Image 1.

    N.C. Wyeth

    New Story Magazine, cover illustration, Beach Scene, Two Men Fighting, 1913

    Oil on canvas

    32 x 24.5 in (81.28 x 62.23 cm)

  7. Death of the Virgin by Albrecht Dürer, Image 1.

    Albrecht Dürer

    Death of the Virgin, 1510

    Woodcut on paper

    11.5 x 8.125 in (29.21 x 20.64 cm)

  8. Prelude I by Patrick McCay, Image 1.

    Patrick McCay

    Prelude I, No date

    Acrylic on board

    10.75 x 14.75 in (27.31 x 37.47 cm)

View All Artworks

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.