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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Bob Timberlake

    Grubb's Gazebo, 1984

    Offset lithograph

  2. Standing Nude by Robert Weaver, Image 1.

    Robert Weaver

    Standing Nude, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    20.25 x 15.125 in (51.44 x 38.42 cm)

  3. Ford by Joyce Arons, Image 1.

    Joyce Arons

    Ford, 1979

    Silkscreen on paper

    29.5 x 21.25 in (74.93 x 53.98 cm)

  4. Connections by Robert Ecker, Image 1.

    Robert Ecker

    Connections, 1978

    Mezzotint on paper

    10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

  5. Pod I, Closed by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    Pod I, Closed, 1977

    Lithograph on paper

    29 x 22 in (73.66 x 55.88 cm)

  6. Small Red January 1973: 1 by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    Small Red January 1973: 1, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    21 x 24.5 in (53.34 x 62.23 cm)

  7. First Triangles by William Scott, Image 1.

    William Scott

    First Triangles, 1972

    Screenprint on paper

    23 x 30.75 in (58.42 x 78.11 cm)

  8. Two Pink Discs in Dark Reds by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    Two Pink Discs in Dark Reds, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    28.25 x 39.875 in (71.76 x 101.28 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.