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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Stacy Lynn Waddell

    Boat, 2006

    Painting on paper

    6 x 8 in (15.24 x 20.32 cm)

  2. Sanctuary by Adrian Van Suchtelen, Image 1.

    Adrian Van Suchtelen

    Sanctuary, 1982

    Lithograph on paper

    10.25 x 13.5 in (26.04 x 34.29 cm)

  3. Marilyn Bridges

    Tweed Field, Le Roy, NY, from the Heightened Perspectives series, 1981

    Gelatin silver print

    16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm)

  4. Unidentified Woman (White Glasses) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (White Glasses), 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  5. Unidentified Woman (Red Ruby Earrings) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Red Ruby Earrings), 1979

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  6. Head of cedar walking cane carved by Luster Willis, Crystal Springs, Mississippi 1976 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Head of cedar walking cane carved by Luster Willis, Crystal Springs, Mississippi 1976, 1976

    Chromogenic print

    16.125 x 24 in (40.96 x 60.96 cm)

  7. Orpheus, Stages of an Image by Varujan Boghosian, Image 1.

    Varujan Boghosian

    Orpheus, Stages of an Image, c. 1970

    Woodcut on paper

    30 x 22.25 in (76.2 x 56.52 cm)

  8. Harold Feinstein

    Boys Running Into Surf, Coney Island, NY, from Photographer's Choice: Harold Feinstein-Decades Four, 1954

    Gelatin silver print

    11.125 x 14.125 in (28.26 x 35.88 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.