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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Signature by Erin Shirreff, Image 1.

    Erin Shirreff

    Signature, 2010

    Archival pigment print on paper

    23 x 31.75 in (58.42 x 80.65 cm)

  2. Boy Gorge by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Boy Gorge, 2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  3. Fruitstand, Newcastle, California by Stephen Johnson, Image 1.

    Stephen Johnson

    Fruitstand, Newcastle, California, 1985

    Chromogenic print

    14.875 x 18.875 in (37.78 x 47.94 cm)

  4. Trophies by Dieter Roth, Image 1.

    Dieter Roth

    Trophies, 1978

    Offset print

    19.8125 x 13.875 in (50.32 x 35.24 cm)

  5. Boats by Nicholas Monro, Image 1.

    Nicholas Monro

    Boats, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    20.125 x 37.875 in (51.12 x 96.2 cm)

  6. Benny Goodman by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Benny Goodman, 1957

    Gelatin silver print

    10.875 x 13.875 in (27.62 x 35.24 cm)

  7. The Chinese, They Say, Invented Gunpowder, and Made Us a Gift of It, from Miserere by Georges Rouault, Image 2.

    Georges Rouault

    The Chinese, They Say, Invented Gunpowder, and Made Us a Gift of It, from Miserere, 1926

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    24.375 x 17.875 in (61.91 x 45.4 cm)

  8. Unknown (For Spots, Struck by a Snake) by Douglas Houchens, Image 4.

    Douglas Houchens

    Unknown (For Spots, Struck by a Snake), no date

    Film

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About the artist

Richard Lindner

German

1901-1978

German-American painter and illustrator. Started his career as a concert pianist before becoming the art director of Knorr & Hirth, a Nazi publisher. Escaped Germany a day after the Nazis came into power in Paris and had to prove his loyalty to the Allied powers by serving in the British and French armies. Left for New York in 1941, restarting his career as an illustrator for Vogue, Fortune and Harper’s Bazaar. Paintings demonstrate a blend of expressionistic exaggeration, Surrealist fantasy, Cubist manipulations of form and perspective, and incorporates elements of his personal history, literary associations, and introspection that separates his works from pop-art. Known for his erotic renderings of human form, inspired in part by Berlin’s cabaret scene and in part by New York’s underground. Favorite subjects were bizarre women as sexual object, precocious children and men as strangers or voyeurs, and policemen as symbols of authority. Taught at the Pratt Institute from 1952 to 1965.