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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Common Ground by Patrick Dougherty, Image 1.

    Patrick Dougherty

    Common Ground, 2020

    Mixed hardwoods

    720 x 360 x 216 in (1828.8 x 914.4 x 548.64 cm)

  2. Linear Way by John Maeda, Image 2.

    John Maeda

    Linear Way, 2005

    DVD

  3. James Coignard

    AAAAA Blue, 1980

    Carborundum etching on paper

    25.75 x 29.5 in (65.41 x 74.93 cm)

  4. Seashore I by Cecilia Davila, Image 1.

    Cecilia Davila

    Seashore I, 1979

    Etching on paper

    29.6875 x 22.6875 in (75.41 x 57.63 cm)

  5. Caco I, Paris by Lucien Clergue, Image 1.

    Lucien Clergue

    Caco I, Paris, 1975

    Gelatin silver print

    14.25 x 9.125 in (36.2 x 23.18 cm)

  6. Andromeda by Marvin Lowe, Image 1.

    Marvin Lowe

    Andromeda, 1973

    Etching and aquatint on paper and mounted to mat

    27.75 x 27.75 in (70.49 x 70.49 cm)

  7. Geraldine Fitzgerald by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Geraldine Fitzgerald, 1944

    Gelatin silver print

    13.75 x 11 in (34.93 x 27.94 cm)

  8. 12The Eritrean Sibyl by Giorgio Ghisi, Image 1.

    Giorgio Ghisi

    12The Eritrean Sibyl, c. 1570

    Engraving on paper

    21.75 x 16.75 in (55.25 x 42.55 cm)

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About the artist

Howard Hodgkin

British

1932-2017

British painter, printmaker. Worked in an abstract painterly style and resisted easy categorization. Escaped to New York with family to escape the blitz. Introduced to Modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Stuart David during the war. Produced his first serious work in 1949 while studying at the Camberwell School of Art before moving on to the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire in a bid to more freely express and experiment new ways of painting. Expressivity as an artist was only truly freed after divorcing his wife of twenty years and acknowledging his homosexuality. Late works, 1970s-onwards, is when his own personalized styles of work developed—gestural, vibrantly technicolored and brilliant. Became the second artist to win the Turner Prize in 1985. Enjoyed a number of well-received international retrospective exhibitions, some organized by the British Council.