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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Evolution 2: Prehistoric by Fritz Janschka, Image 2.

    Fritz Janschka

    Evolution 2: Prehistoric, 2005

    Watercolor on paper

    8.125 x 9.5 in (20.64 x 24.13 cm)

  2. Under the EL by N. Jay Jaffee, Image 2.

    N. Jay Jaffee

    Under the EL, 1973

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  3. January 1973: 18 by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    January 1973: 18, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    27.375 x 36.5 in (69.53 x 92.71 cm)

  4. Fannie Bell Chapman, Centreville by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Fannie Bell Chapman, Centreville, 1972

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 17 in (27.94 x 43.18 cm)

  5. Shoot by Richard Lindner, Image 1.

    Richard Lindner

    Shoot, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    41 x 29.25 in (104.14 x 74.3 cm)

  6. Seated Man by John Edward Heliker, Image 1.

    John Edward Heliker

    Seated Man, c. 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    10 x 13.125 in (25.4 x 33.34 cm)

  7. Sandra Krasner by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Sandra Krasner, 1953

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

  8. Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques by Pablo Picasso, Image 1.

    Pablo Picasso

    Buste d'Homme, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, 1905

    Etching on paper

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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.