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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Riverbank (Ribera), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging by Susan Harbage Page, Image 1.

    Susan Harbage Page

    Riverbank (Ribera), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging, 2008

    Color inkjet print on cotton rag paper

    17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)

  2. My Own Hall Mark Cards, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    My Own Hall Mark Cards, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  3. Lisa Nicole Carson, Batiste House, Pictures from Eve's Bayou by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Lisa Nicole Carson, Batiste House, Pictures from Eve's Bayou, 1998

    Dye transfer print

    20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm)

  4. William Eggleston, Oxford, Miss. by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    William Eggleston, Oxford, Miss., 1986

    Gelatin silver print

    13.5 x 9 in (34.29 x 22.86 cm)

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

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series, c. 1978

    Chromogenic print

    13.875 x 16.875 in (35.24 x 42.86 cm)

  6. The Bard Began, Canto IV, from Inferno by Ron Kowalke, Image 1.

    Ron Kowalke

    The Bard Began, Canto IV, from Inferno, 1970

    Etching on paper

    22 x 29.5 in (55.88 x 74.93 cm)

  7. Jerry Lewis by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    Jerry Lewis, 1951

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 11 in (35.24 x 27.94 cm)

  8. 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)

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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.