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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Eden 3 by Maren Hassinger, Image 1.

    Maren Hassinger

    Eden 3, 2023

    Concrete and steel wire

    Dimensions variable

  2. Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) by Kara Walker, Image 1.

    Kara Walker

    Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005

    Offset lithograph and screenprint on Somerset paper

    27 x 34.5 in (68.58 x 87.63 cm)

  3. Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair), 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Big Meadows by Jeanne Richards, Image 1.

    Jeanne Richards

    Big Meadows, 1973

    Etching on paper

    21.375 x 24.25 x 1.5 in (54.29 x 61.6 x 3.81 cm)

  5. Untitled by Juergen Strunck, Image 1.

    Juergen Strunck

    Untitled, 1973

    Photo-etching

    21.25 x 15 in (53.98 x 38.1 cm)

  6. Indian View F by Howard Hodgkin, Image 1.

    Howard Hodgkin

    Indian View F, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    22.875 x 30.5 in (58.1 x 77.47 cm)

  7. La fanfare, 14 juillet défilé militaire by Raoul Dufy, Image 1.

    Raoul Dufy

    La fanfare, 14 juillet défilé militaire, 1951/1965

    Lithograph on paper mounted to board

    23.875 x 25.875 in (60.64 x 65.72 cm)

  8. Sheep Grazing at a Hedgerow by Jean-Francois Millet, Image 2.

    Jean-Francois Millet

    Sheep Grazing at a Hedgerow, 1861-1862

    Oil on cradled panel

    14.5 x 16.25 in (36.83 x 41.28 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.