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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Conway Twitty, 1999 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Conway Twitty, 1999, 1998

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  2. Home by Tim Lowly, Image 4.

    Tim Lowly

    Home, 1991

    Plexiglass, oil and tempera on panel

    14 x 15 x 20 in (35.56 x 38.1 x 50.8 cm)

  3. Totem by Adrian Van Suchtelen, Image 1.

    Adrian Van Suchtelen

    Totem, 1981

    Etching on paper

    15 x 11.125 in (38.1 x 28.26 cm)

  4. Zig by William Haendel, Image 1.

    William Haendel

    Zig, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

    23.25 x 18 in (59.06 x 45.72 cm)

  5. Lolita Undressing by Graham Ovenden, Image 1.

    Graham Ovenden

    Lolita Undressing, 1975

    Etching on paper

    26 x 26 in (66.04 x 66.04 cm)

  6. January 1973: 1 by Patrick Heron, Image 1.

    Patrick Heron

    January 1973: 1, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    27.5 x 35.625 in (69.85 x 90.49 cm)

  7. Erie, PA, from RISD Portfolio by Keith Johnson, Image 1.

    Keith Johnson

    Erie, PA, from RISD Portfolio, 1974/75

    Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board

    6 x 6.875 in (15.24 x 17.46 cm)

  8. Richard Ross

    Part of Compression Series, 2001-2002

    Chromogenic print

    10 x 24 in (25.4 x 60.96 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.