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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee by William Villalongo, Image 1.

    William Villalongo

    Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee, 2020

    Acrylic, drinking gourds, beads, velvet flock, glitter flock, velour paper and pigment print mounted on hardboard

  2. Looking Glass Rock from the Art Loeb Trail by Robert Johnson, Image 1.

    Robert Johnson

    Looking Glass Rock from the Art Loeb Trail, 2003

    Acrylic and oil on panel

    12 x 24 in (30.48 x 60.96 cm)

  3. The Dollar Spangled Banner by Steven D. Gagnon, Image 1.

    Steven D. Gagnon

    The Dollar Spangled Banner, 2001

    Serigraph collaged with one-dollar bills

    12 x 16 in (30.48 x 40.64 cm)

  4. Hillside White Birch, Letchworth State Park, New York by John Sexton, Image 1.

    John Sexton

    Hillside White Birch, Letchworth State Park, New York, 1987

    Gelatin silver print

    10.125 x 10.5 in (25.72 x 26.67 cm)

  5. Alan Saret

    Mixed Encounter with Blue, 1983

    Pencil on paper

  6. Goddess History, from Survey 1986 by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Image 1.

    Manuel Alvarez Bravo

    Goddess History, from Survey 1986, 1979

    Paladium print

    6.875 x 9.25 in (17.46 x 23.5 cm)

  7. C.L. Redwine and Corine Gardner, Coahoma County by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    C.L. Redwine and Corine Gardner, Coahoma County, 1968

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 17 in (27.94 x 43.18 cm)

  8. Woman on Bed by Constantino Nivola, Image 1.

    Constantino Nivola

    Woman on Bed, 1961

    Lithograph on paper

    10 x 12 in (25.4 x 30.48 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.