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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Carolina Allspice Fruit, Calycanthus floridus, from the series Photographic Survey of the American Yard by Joshua White, Image 1.

    Joshua White

    Carolina Allspice Fruit, Calycanthus floridus, from the series Photographic Survey of the American Yard, 2015

    Archival pigment print

    4 x 4 in (10.16 x 10.16 cm)

  2. El Extranjero by Delia Cugat, Image 1.

    Delia Cugat

    El Extranjero, 2005

    Oil on canvas

    29.375 x 16 in (74.61 x 40.64 cm)

  3. Cheris Window by Allan Simpson, Image 1.

    Allan Simpson

    Cheris Window, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    28.875 x 20.5 in (73.34 x 52.07 cm)

  4. Big Sausage by Patrick Caulfield, Image 1.

    Patrick Caulfield

    Big Sausage, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    35.25 x 29.25 in (89.54 x 74.3 cm)

  5. Self-Portrait by Anne Noggle, Image 1.

    Anne Noggle

    Self-Portrait, 1970

    Silver gelatin print

    8.75 x 12.5 in (22.23 x 31.75 cm)

  6. Lotus by Bernard Childs, Image 1.

    Bernard Childs

    Lotus, 1967

    Collograph on paper

    22.25 x 17.5 in (56.52 x 44.45 cm)

  7. Two Friends at Home, NYC by Diane Arbus, Image 1.

    Diane Arbus

    Two Friends at Home, NYC, 1965

    Gelatin silver print

    14.25 x 14.375 in (36.2 x 36.51 cm)

  8. Martha Graham, Lamentation (Double Image) by Barbara Morgan, Image 1.

    Barbara Morgan

    Martha Graham, Lamentation (Double Image), 1935

    Silver gelatin print

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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.