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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return) by David Byrne, Image 1.

    David Byrne

    Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return), 2010

    Archival pigment print

    11 x 13.75 in (27.94 x 34.93 cm)

  2. Untitled #140 by Hellen van Meene, Image 1.

    Hellen van Meene

    Untitled #140, 2001

    Chromogenic print

    15.375 x 15.375 in (39.05 x 39.05 cm)

  3. Drum Serenade by Karin Batten, Image 1.

    Karin Batten

    Drum Serenade, 1992

    Acrylic on canvas

    36.25 x 38 in (92.08 x 96.52 cm)

  4. Daybreak by Adrian Van Suchtelen, Image 1.

    Adrian Van Suchtelen

    Daybreak, 1980

    Etching on paper

    10.375 x 14.75 in (26.35 x 37.47 cm)

  5. Bird Lives by Carmen Louis Cicero, Image 1.

    Carmen Louis Cicero

    Bird Lives, 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm)

  6. Untitled (from "Photographs of Women") by Joyce Tenneson, Image 1.

    Joyce Tenneson

    Untitled (from "Photographs of Women"), 1985-2005

    Color instant print (Polaroid)

    28.75 x 22 in (73.03 x 55.88 cm)

  7. Richard Ross

    Part of Compression Series, 2001-2002

    Chromogenic print

    10 x 24 in (25.4 x 60.96 cm)

  8. Bone by Roger Manley, Image 1.

    Roger Manley

    Bone, No date

    Gelatin silver print

    3.25 x 4.75 in (8.26 x 12.07 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).