Planning for the Future from the collection of Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

Planning for the Future, 2018

Oil on linen

14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

Inv: 3605

Location: President's Office

Gallery Purchase

Shara Hughes' paintings often are interactions of experimentation of direct mixing of paint and color on the canvas, which creates bold texture and pattern. This smaller piece depicts ambiguous forms within a larger landscape of natural motifs. Distant mountains and the sun on the horizon look over the rest of the piece while simple forms that resemble natural images populate the rest of the image. Combining experimentation and mixing on the surface on the canvas, Hughes investigates the intersection of landscape and a lush imaginary world. The title may refer to the rising or setting sun on the border over the amorphous organic forms existing within this representational landscape.

From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

William R. Ferris

Unidentified fireworks salesman, Leland, Mississippi, circa 1976, c. 1976

Chromogenic print

16.125 x 24 in (40.96 x 60.96 cm)
Robert Freimark

Obra, 1976

Lithograph on paper

27.9375 x 20 in (70.96 x 50.8 cm)
Marc Blandori

Rome, from RISD Portfolio, 1973

Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board

9.5 x 6.375 in (24.13 x 16.19 cm)
Juan Genovés

Después, ahora, ahora, antes (Then, now, now, before), 1970

Etching on paper

19.8125 x 25.9375 in (50.32 x 65.88 cm)
Berenice Abbott

West 4th Street Near Bank, from the "Changing New York" series, c. 1948

Gelatin silver print

10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)
Hans Hofmann

Untitled (Abstract Figure), 1946

Gouache on paper

17 x 13.75 in (43.18 x 34.93 cm)
Utagawa 歌川 Kunisada 国貞

Actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro I as the Fishmonger (Seigyo-uni) Danshichi Kurobei, from Heroic Commoners in Kabuki (Rien kyokaku den), 1863

Woodblock print on paper

14.375 x 9.5 in (36.51 x 24.13 cm)
Unknown

Chinese Daoist Immortal He Xian Gu, Qing Dynasty, ca. Late 19th Century

Porcelain and enamel

9.25 x 3 x 2.5 in (23.5 x 7.62 x 6.35 cm)