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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Dark Black Series, Drawing #1 by Gabriel Rivera, Image 1.

    Gabriel Rivera

    Dark Black Series, Drawing #1, 2011

    Mixed media on paper

    60 x 45 in (152.4 x 114.3 cm)

  2. Untitled by Susan Brenner, Image 1.

    Susan Brenner

    Untitled, 2001

    Oil on canvas

    5.5 x 3.75 in (13.97 x 9.53 cm)

  3. Alice Walker, Rowan Oak, Miss. by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Alice Walker, Rowan Oak, Miss., 1994

    Gelatin silver print

    13.5 x 9 in (34.29 x 22.86 cm)

  4. Village Hillside by Linda Plotkin, Image 1.

    Linda Plotkin

    Village Hillside, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

    22.25 x 30 in (56.52 x 76.2 cm)

  5. Landforms by Albert William Christ-Janer, Image 1.

    Albert William Christ-Janer

    Landforms, 1970

    Lithograph on paper

    22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

  6. Jim Lawhorn, Flood Victim, Churchill Downs, Clubhouse, Louisville, Kentucky by Margaret Bourke-White, Image 1.

    Margaret Bourke-White

    Jim Lawhorn, Flood Victim, Churchill Downs, Clubhouse, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

    Gelatin silver print

    13 x 10 in (33.02 x 25.4 cm)

  7. Hercules Sets Up The Columns of Gades by Hans Sebald Beham, Image 2.

    Hans Sebald Beham

    Hercules Sets Up The Columns of Gades, 1545

    Engraving on paper

    1.75 x 3 in (4.45 x 7.62 cm)

  8. Untitled, from RISD Portfolio by Patrick Linehan, Image 1.

    Patrick Linehan

    Untitled, from RISD Portfolio, 1974/75

    Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board

    6.333 x 8.25 in (16.09 x 20.96 cm)

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About the artist

Karel Appel

Dutch

1921-2006

Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions employed expressive colors and forms. Like Jean Dubuffet, Appel found inspiration in the artwork of children and the rejection of sophisticated aesthetic tastes. “Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast,” he reflected. “To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life.” A member of the international avant-garde group CoBrA, founded in Paris in 1948, Karel Appel is broadly known for the whimsical style of his expressionist paintings. Considered the European counterparts of the American Abstract Expressionists, Appel and other members of CoBrA privileged spontaneity in an intuitive, almost child-like approach to painting.