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

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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

Tom Stanley

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Acrylic on canvas

37.5 x 47.5 in (95.25 x 120.65 cm)
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Ink, gouche, and pasted paper on paper

21.125 x 26.625 in (53.66 x 67.63 cm)
Guillermo Trujillo

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Acrylic on canvas

23.875 x 19.875 in (60.64 x 50.48 cm)
Tommie Robinson

Product, 1993

Transparent watercolor on paper

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Yun James Yohe

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Acrylic on canvas

50 x 48 in (127.0 x 121.92 cm)
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Oil on canvas

41.75 x 51.625 in (106.05 x 131.13 cm)
James Arliss Bumgardner

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Oil on canvas

54.75 x 59.75 in (139.07 x 151.77 cm)
John Joseph Enneking

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Oil on canvas

25 x 30 in (63.5 x 76.2 cm)