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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Paper Piece V by Richard Howard Hunt, Image 1.

    Richard Howard Hunt

    Paper Piece V, 1978

    Handmade paper

    18.5 x 23.25 in (46.99 x 59.06 cm)

  2. Evelyn Kuhn by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Evelyn Kuhn, 1977

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  3. Sand Dust by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    Sand Dust, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    13.25 x 17.25 in (33.66 x 43.82 cm)

  4. Red Arrow, Roan Mountain, North Carolina by John Pfahl, Image 1.

    John Pfahl

    Red Arrow, Roan Mountain, North Carolina, 1975

    Chromogenic print

    7.25 x 9 in (18.42 x 22.86 cm)

  5. Fish and Faces with Geometric Border by Martin Rosenthal, Image 1.

    Martin Rosenthal

    Fish and Faces with Geometric Border, 1972

    Oil on canvas

    50.5 x 64 in (128.27 x 162.56 cm)

  6. Barbara Swan

    Bernard Chaet, Friends of the Artist, 1970

    Etching on paper

    29.625 x 22.375 in (75.25 x 56.83 cm)

  7. Johnny Brown and Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown, Leland by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Johnny Brown and Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown, Leland, 1968

    Gelatin silver print

    11 x 17 in (27.94 x 43.18 cm)

  8. From Fulton St. El Station by Todd Webb, Image 1.

    Todd Webb

    From Fulton St. El Station, 1948

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 11 in (35.24 x 27.94 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.