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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Manhole Covers (Collaboration with Al Souza) by MANUAL, Image 1.

    MANUAL

    Manhole Covers (Collaboration with Al Souza), 2010

    Archival pigment print on paper

    22.25 x 31.25 in (56.52 x 79.38 cm)

  2. Linda Foard Roberts

    Lilly, 1989

    Sepia-toned silver gelatin print

    20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm)

  3. Untitled by Peter Bodnar, Image 1.

    Peter Bodnar

    Untitled, 1983

    Lithograph on paper

    11.125 x 15 in (28.26 x 38.1 cm)

  4. Shrimp Fleet V by Carl Schwartz, Image 1.

    Carl Schwartz

    Shrimp Fleet V, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22.25 in (38.1 x 56.52 cm)

  5. Bea by John Talleur, Image 1.

    John Talleur

    Bea, 1976

    Etching on paper

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

  6. Comstock #2: Miner by Jim McCormick, Image 1.

    Jim McCormick

    Comstock #2: Miner, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    15.1875 x 12 in (38.58 x 30.48 cm)

  7. These & Those (Brown) by Noemi Smilansky, Image 1.

    Noemi Smilansky

    These & Those (Brown), 1969

    Etching on paper

    26.8125 x 22.25 in (68.1 x 56.52 cm)

  8. Andalong and Jicarilli by Roger Manley, Image 1.

    Roger Manley

    Andalong and Jicarilli, No date

    Gelatin silver print

    11.25 x 16.5 in (28.58 x 41.91 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).