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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Flooded Fields and River, San Joaquín Delta, California by Stephen Johnson, Image 1.

    Stephen Johnson

    Flooded Fields and River, San Joaquín Delta, California, 1986

    Chromogenic print

    14.875 x 19 in (37.78 x 48.26 cm)

  2. Untitled (SF83-147, Yellow and Blue Square) by Sam Francis, Image 1.

    Sam Francis

    Untitled (SF83-147, Yellow and Blue Square), 1983

    Acrylic on paper

    15 x 15 in (38.1 x 38.1 cm)

  3. Untitled, from RISD Portfolio by Paul Krot, Image 1.

    Paul Krot

    Untitled, from RISD Portfolio, 1975

    Color photograph mounted to drawing board

    4.625 x 6.875 in (11.75 x 17.46 cm)

  4. Wind/Wave by Lois Swirnoff, Image 1.

    Lois Swirnoff

    Wind/Wave, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    16.875 x 29.875 in (42.86 x 75.88 cm)

  5. Untitled No. 12, from "The Basque Suite" by Robert Motherwell, Image 1.

    Robert Motherwell

    Untitled No. 12, from "The Basque Suite", 1971

    Lithograph on paper

    40.25 x 28 in (102.24 x 71.12 cm)

  6. Maudie Shirley and Wallace "Pine Top" Johnson by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Maudie Shirley and Wallace "Pine Top" Johnson, 1968

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 17 in (27.94 x 43.18 cm)

  7. Self Portrait by John Edward Heliker, Image 1.

    John Edward Heliker

    Self Portrait, c. 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    29 x 22.5 in (73.66 x 57.15 cm)

  8. Henry Luce by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    Henry Luce, 1948

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 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.