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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Green House by Barbara Schreiber, Image 2.

    Barbara Schreiber

    Green House, 2018

    Acrylic on paper

    22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

  2. Untitled (110733), from the series “Insula” by Saul Robbins, Image 1.

    Saul Robbins

    Untitled (110733), from the series “Insula”, 2007

    Vintage chromogenic print mounted to board

    20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

  3. Steve P. Mosch

    Pilings, Construction Site I; Savanna, GA, 1993

    Chromogenic print

    20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm)

  4. 19th Century Post Lady by Stephen White, Image 1.

    Stephen White

    19th Century Post Lady, 1978

    Woodcut on paper mounted to board

    33.5 x 11.5 in (85.09 x 29.21 cm)

  5. Chinatown by Chryssa, Image 1.

    Chryssa

    Chinatown, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    38.75 x 31.25 in (98.43 x 79.38 cm)

  6. Water by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    Water, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

    22.125 x 29.75 x 1.25 in (56.2 x 75.57 x 3.18 cm)

  7. Landscape by Jane Wilson, Image 1.

    Jane Wilson

    Landscape, c. 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    13.5 x 10 in (34.29 x 25.4 cm)

  8. La Mare aux Viperes en Foret de Fontainbleau (The Pond in the Forest of Fountainbleau by Théodore Rousseau, Image 2.

    Théodore Rousseau

    La Mare aux Viperes en Foret de Fontainbleau (The Pond in the Forest of Fountainbleau, 1856-1857

    Oil on cradled panel

    6.5 x 9.5 in (16.51 x 24.13 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.