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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Dirty Laundry by Mella Jaarsma, Image 1.

    Mella Jaarsma

    Dirty Laundry, 2017

    Mixed media costume

  2. Erda: New Forms V by Clara Couch, Image 2.

    Clara Couch

    Erda: New Forms V, 1991

    Clay

  3. Lucien Clergue

    Silent Pond, Camargue, France, 1985

    Chromogenic print

    10 x 29.25 in (25.4 x 74.3 cm)

  4. Brooklyn Bridge by David Hockney, Image 1.

    David Hockney

    Brooklyn Bridge, 1982

    Chromogenic print collage on paperboard

    108.5 x 57.5 in (275.59 x 146.05 cm)

  5. Fall of Troy by Stanley William Hayter, Image 1.

    Stanley William Hayter

    Fall of Troy, 1979

    Engraving on paper

    15.75 x 11.5 in (40.01 x 29.21 cm)

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

    William R. Ferris

    Fannie Bell Chapman, Centreville, 1972

    Gelatin silver print

    17 x 11 in (43.18 x 27.94 cm)

  7. Julie Andrews by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    Julie Andrews, 1963

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 11 in (35.24 x 27.94 cm)

  8. The Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Susan Harbage Page, Image 1.

    Susan Harbage Page

    The Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 2007-2020

    Chromogenic print

    17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)

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About the artist

Irving Norman

1906-1989

Without a doubt, Irving Norman is one of the greatest American social surrealists of the 20th century. A Jewish Lithuanian émigré born in Vilnius (then under Russian control) Norman moved to the United States with his family in 1923. In 1938, Norman joined the Abraham Lincoln battalion of the International Brigade to fight Francisco Franco and the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Returning in 1940, Norman sought to confront and describe the atrocities he had seen during his time in Spain and turned to art as his outlet. Norman's surrealist work, inspired by his experiences, socialist stance, and the tenants of Mexican muralism, tells a tale of capitalistic greed, machine-like automatism, and the horrors of modern life.