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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. A Box with Sky Window by Flo Hatcher, Image 1.

    Flo Hatcher

    A Box with Sky Window, 1977

    Lithograph on paper

    21.5 x 14.5 in (54.61 x 36.83 cm)

  2. Triangle Between Infinities - 2 by Tchah-Sup Kim, Image 1.

    Tchah-Sup Kim

    Triangle Between Infinities - 2, 1976

    Etching on paper

    17.5 x 17.5 in (44.45 x 44.45 cm)

  3. Edward Shalala

    Oil Landscape, 1974

    Mezzotint on paper

    17.5 x 19.5 in (44.45 x 49.53 cm)

  4. Rowers by Julian Trevelyan, Image 1.

    Julian Trevelyan

    Rowers, 1972

    Etching on paper

    23.125 x 30.875 in (58.74 x 78.42 cm)

  5. Whoa by Karl Knaths, Image 1.

    Karl Knaths

    Whoa, 1969

    Lithograph on paper

    30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

  6. Two Horsemen by Miller Farr, Image 1.

    Miller Farr

    Two Horsemen, 1965

    Lithograph on paper

    10 x 12.875 in (25.4 x 32.7 cm)

  7. Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI by William Hogarth, Image 1.

    William Hogarth

    Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI, 1797

    Engraving on paper

    14.5 x 17.25 in (36.83 x 43.82 cm)

  8. A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5 by William Hogarth, Image 1.

    William Hogarth

    A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5, 1732

    Engraving on paper

    12 x 14.75 in (30.48 x 37.47 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.