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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Ernie + Brianna When Kids Witness Violence Vermont, from Living with the Enemy by Donna Ferrato, Image 1.

    Donna Ferrato

    Ernie + Brianna When Kids Witness Violence Vermont, from Living with the Enemy, 1996

    Archival pigment print

    20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.96 cm)

  2. Karel Appel

    House Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  3. Earth Radiating Into Infinity by Stanley E. Lea, Image 1.

    Stanley E. Lea

    Earth Radiating Into Infinity, 1977

    Collograph on paper

    18 x 24 in (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

  4. Sculptures II by Joan Miró, Image 2.

    Joan Miró

    Sculptures II, 1974

    Color lithograph on paper

    11 x 22 in (27.94 x 55.88 cm)

  5. Proscenium IV by Richard Smith, Image 1.

    Richard Smith

    Proscenium IV, 1971

    etching on paper

    31 x 23 in (78.74 x 58.42 cm)

  6. William Menninken by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    William Menninken, 1963

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 11 in (35.24 x 27.94 cm)

  7. Blue Point by Robert E. Partin, Image 2.

    Robert E. Partin

    Blue Point, 1960

    Oil on canvas

    29.75 x 35.625 in (75.57 x 90.49 cm)

  8. Group - Processing Apricots by Todd Webb, Image 1.

    Todd Webb

    Group - Processing Apricots, 1951

    Gelatin silver print

    10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

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About the artist

Graham Ovenden

British

b. 1943

British painter, photographer, photo-historian, and writer. Ovenden studied at the Royal College of Music and Southampton School of Art and graduated from the Royal College of Art (1968). He was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1975). His work is extremely controversial, and he was prosecuted but not found guilty for a production of hoax calotypes which he claimed were of Victorian street children (1980). In the 1990s, his work was investigated by the US and UK authorities as possible child pornography. (2009) He was charged by the UK for creating indecent images, but the trials collapsed. A few years later, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault relating to the girls who modelled for him (2013). Many of his pieces have been either confiscated by the British government, banned by both countries, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible.