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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Path (Sendero), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging by Susan Harbage Page, Image 1.

    Susan Harbage Page

    Path (Sendero), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging, 2014

    Color inkjet print on cotton rag paper

    17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)

  2. A-Bombed Comb, Hiroshima, from After Hiroshima by elin o'Hara slavick, Image 1.

    elin o'Hara slavick

    A-Bombed Comb, Hiroshima, from After Hiroshima, 2008

    Cyanotype

    9.75 x 7.875 in (24.77 x 20.0 cm)

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

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Red Ruby Earrings), 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Adam and Eve by Richard Lindner, Image 1.

    Richard Lindner

    Adam and Eve, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    27.25 x 21 in (69.22 x 53.34 cm)

  5. N. Jay Jaffee

    Times Square, 1958

    Gelatin silver print

    10.875 x 13.875 in (27.62 x 35.24 cm)

  6. Debbie Reynolds by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Debbie Reynolds, 1951

    Gelatin silver print

    12 x 11 in (30.48 x 27.94 cm)

  7. Geraldine Fitzgerald by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Geraldine Fitzgerald, 1944

    Gelatin silver print

    13.75 x 11 in (34.93 x 27.94 cm)

  8. The Death of the Virgin by Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt, Image 1.

    Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt

    The Death of the Virgin, 1639

    Etching on paper

    15.75 x 12.125 in (40.01 x 30.8 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.