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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Trumpet by Joyce Tenneson, Image 2.

    Joyce Tenneson

    Trumpet, 2020

    Archival pigment print

    22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm)

  2. Myself as a Guggenheim Fellow by Anne Noggle, Image 1.

    Anne Noggle

    Myself as a Guggenheim Fellow, 1981

    Silver gelatin print

    8 x 10 in (20.32 x 25.4 cm)

  3. Bamboo of the Friendly Garden by Yoshida Toshi, Image 1.

    Yoshida Toshi

    Bamboo of the Friendly Garden, c. 1980

    Woodblock on paper

    20.5 x 10.5 in (52.07 x 26.67 cm)

  4. Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair), 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  5. Pecolia Warner with her "P" quilt, Yazco City, Mississippi, 1975 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Pecolia Warner with her "P" quilt, Yazco City, Mississippi, 1975, 1975

    Chromogenic print

    24 x 16.125 in (60.96 x 40.96 cm)

  6. Blue Field by William Scott, Image 1.

    William Scott

    Blue Field, 1972

    Screenprint on paper

    22.875 x 30.5 in (58.1 x 77.47 cm)

  7. Patrice Munsel by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Patrice Munsel, 1950

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 10.875 in (35.56 x 27.62 cm)

  8. Cool Morning, 1999/20001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Cool Morning, 1999/20001

    Ink on paper

    11.75 x 9 in (29.85 x 22.86 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.