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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Glowing Dahlias by Joyce Tenneson, Image 2.

    Joyce Tenneson

    Glowing Dahlias, 2020

    Archival pigment print

    22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm)

  2. Collection #3 by Patrick Atkinson, Image 1.

    Patrick Atkinson

    Collection #3, 2005

    Mixed media on paper

    30.25 x 22.25 in (76.84 x 56.52 cm)

  3. Webbie by Kirk Fanelly, Image 1.

    Kirk Fanelly

    Webbie, 2004

    Acrylic on panel

    34.875 x 23.75 x 1 in (88.58 x 60.33 x 2.54 cm)

  4. The Man in the Moon, 03 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    The Man in the Moon, 03, 2003

    Ink on paper

    10.875 x 8.375 in (27.62 x 21.27 cm)

  5. Rudder IV by Kurt Warnke, Image 1.

    Kurt Warnke

    Rudder IV, 1987

    Etching on paper

    31.5 x 29.75 in (80.01 x 75.57 cm)

  6. Bay Colony Secrets by Keith Hatcher, Image 1.

    Keith Hatcher

    Bay Colony Secrets, 1977

    Lithograph on paper

    15.25 x 13.75 in (38.74 x 34.93 cm)

  7. Pecolia Warner with her "P" quilt, Yazco City, Mississippi, 1975 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Pecolia Warner with her "P" quilt, Yazco City, Mississippi, 1975, 1975

    Chromogenic print

    24 x 16.125 in (60.96 x 40.96 cm)

  8. The Tree #36, Martha's Vineyard, from RISD Portfolio by Aaron Siskind, Image 1.

    Aaron Siskind

    The Tree #36, Martha's Vineyard, from RISD Portfolio, 1973

    Gelatin silver print mounted to drawing board

    6.5 x 6.75 in (16.51 x 17.15 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.