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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Knife by Erin Shirreff, Image 1.

    Erin Shirreff

    Knife, 2008

    Black and white archival pigment print

    40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

  2. Dark Glasses 5 by Robert Ecker, Image 2.

    Robert Ecker

    Dark Glasses 5, 1978

    Mezzotint on paper

    7 x 5 in (17.78 x 12.7 cm)

  3. The Very Deep Did Rot from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Patrick Procktor, Image 1.

    Patrick Procktor

    The Very Deep Did Rot from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1976

    Etching on paper

    25.5 x 19.5 in (64.77 x 49.53 cm)

  4. Hay-Cart by Julian Trevelyan, Image 1.

    Julian Trevelyan

    Hay-Cart, 1973

    Etching on paper

    30.125 x 23.25 in (76.52 x 59.06 cm)

  5. Hooded Figures by Nicholas Monro, Image 1.

    Nicholas Monro

    Hooded Figures, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    27.625 x 40 in (70.17 x 101.6 cm)

  6. Todd Webb

    Dominguin Praying Before Improvised Shrine, 1951

    Gelatin silver print

    9.25 x 6.75 in (23.5 x 17.15 cm)

  7. Paulette Goddard by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Paulette Goddard, 1949

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  8. Baroque fantasies of the old Jefferson Market Court House by Berenice Abbott, Image 1.

    Berenice Abbott

    Baroque fantasies of the old Jefferson Market Court House, c. 1948

    Gelatin silver print

    10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

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About the artist

Herb Jackson

American

b. 1945

American painter. Throughout Jackson's childhood he was a regular at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and won his first award for art in a juried exhibition there in 1962, as a teenager. He received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College in 1967 and three years later he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1969, while finishing up his graduate studies, Jackson began teaching at Davidson. He soon became the chair of the art department which he held for 16 years. He retired from teaching in 2011.

Jackson has had over 150 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. He was included in the first exhibition of contemporary American art in the former Soviet Union and his work is in over 100 museums. He received the prestigious North Carolina Award by the State Governor. His paintings are built up in hundreds of layers and then scraped off as they are applied.