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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Plots on Loan by Raymond Pettibon, Image 1.

    Raymond Pettibon

    Plots on Loan, 2020

    Lithograph on paper

    19.625 x 13.75 in (49.85 x 34.93 cm)

  2. U.S. Marine Lcpl. Patrick "Sweetums" Stanborough, age 21, Helmand, Afghanistan by Louie Palu, Image 1.

    Louie Palu

    U.S. Marine Lcpl. Patrick "Sweetums" Stanborough, age 21, Helmand, Afghanistan, 2008

    Archival pigment print

  3. Phil Reid

    Ebliette and her calves from Ayrshire Farm, Upperville, Virginia, 1987

    Gelatin silver print

    8.375 x 5.5714 in (21.27 x 14.15 cm)

  4. Marilyn Bridges

    Stonehenge #2, Wiltshire, from the Heightened Perspectives series, 1985

    Gelatin silver print

    16 x 19.75 in (40.64 x 50.17 cm)

  5. Untitled by Richard Howard Hunt, Image 1.

    Richard Howard Hunt

    Untitled, 1972

    Lithograph on paper

    31.25 x 38.875 in (79.38 x 98.74 cm)

  6. Edward Heath by Philippe Halsman, Image 2.

    Philippe Halsman

    Edward Heath, 1966

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

  7. Kim Novak & Vittorio DeSica in Moll Flanders by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Kim Novak & Vittorio DeSica in Moll Flanders, 1964

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 11 in (35.24 x 27.94 cm)

  8. Car Wash, The Royal Canal, Dublin by Alen MacWeeney, Image 2.

    Alen MacWeeney

    Car Wash, The Royal Canal, Dublin, 1963

    Archival pigment print

    13 x 19 in (33.02 x 48.26 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.