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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Counter Offer by Carey Young, Image 5.

    Carey Young

    Counter Offer, 2008

    Archival inkjet print

    11.625 x 8.125 in (29.53 x 20.64 cm)

  2. August Song Three by Richard Black, Image 1.

    Richard Black

    August Song Three, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    22.25 x 15 in (56.52 x 38.1 cm)

  3. Unidentified Girl (White Shirt, With Ball) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Girl (White Shirt, With Ball), 1979

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Untitled by Dieter Roth, Image 1.

    Dieter Roth

    Untitled, 1977

    Oil paint on photograph

    9.5 x 27.25 in (24.13 x 69.22 cm)

  5. English Poet by Harvey Breverman, Image 1.

    Harvey Breverman

    English Poet, 1977

    Lithograph on paper

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  6. Shoreline by Carl Schwartz, Image 1.

    Carl Schwartz

    Shoreline, 1977

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    15 x 22.25 in (38.1 x 56.52 cm)

  7. Custer's Cavalry #7 Lieutenant Sturgis - Killed on the Ridge by John Sandlin, Image 1.

    John Sandlin

    Custer's Cavalry #7 Lieutenant Sturgis - Killed on the Ridge, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

    40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

  8. Faces by Robert Ernst Marx, Image 8.

    Robert Ernst Marx

    Faces, 1969

    Etching on paper

    36.5 x 27.5 in (92.71 x 69.85 cm)

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About the artist

Sidney Nolan

Australian

1917-1992

Australian modernist painter. Nolan attended the National Gallery of Victoria’s School of Art but was mostly influenced by books on Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and the Surrealists. His first solo exhibition was in Melbourne. He was conscripted into the army (1942) and served two years in northwestern Victoria, where he painted landscape and figures. He deserted the army (1944) and began his painting series of Ned Kelly, which made the Kelly Gang made Ned Kelly iconic of Australian identity. He left Melbourne (1947) to paint historical series while trekking across Queensland, Fraser Island and Central Australia. He went to London, Greece and the US (1951) and designed for theatre and opera, including Samon et Dalila (1987), The Abduction from the Seraglio (1987), and II Trovatore (1983). He became an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Arts (1987) and Companion of the Order of Australia (1988).