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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Planning for the Future by Shara Hughes, Image 1.

    Shara Hughes

    Planning for the Future, 2018

    Oil on linen

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

  2. 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)

  3. Kim by Frank Huntington Stack, Image 1.

    Frank Huntington Stack

    Kim, 1979

    Lithograph on paper

    13 x 9 in (33.02 x 22.86 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. April's August by Peter Winslow Milton, Image 1.

    Peter Winslow Milton

    April's August, 1975

    Etching on paper

    31.5 x 19.25 in (80.01 x 48.9 cm)

  6. Black Woman, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C. by Louis Stettner, Image 1.

    Louis Stettner

    Black Woman, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C., 1974

    Gelatin silver print

    26.5 x 20.125 in (67.31 x 51.12 cm)

  7. Andy Griffin, 2002 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Andy Griffin, 2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  8. Unknown title by Simmons Jones, Image 1.

    Simmons Jones

    Unknown title, No date

    Gelatin silver print

    19.125 x 14.625 in (48.58 x 37.15 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).