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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. The Youth by Alice Neel, Image 2.

    Alice Neel

    The Youth, 1982

    Lithograph in colors on Arches paper

    38 x 25 in (96.52 x 63.5 cm)

  2. Wildflowers, Liberty, and Dancer Roads by Howard Bond, Image 1.

    Howard Bond

    Wildflowers, Liberty, and Dancer Roads, 1980

    Gelatin silver print

  3. Charles Ireland by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Charles Ireland, 1978

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Chinatown by Chryssa, Image 1.

    Chryssa

    Chinatown, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    38.25 x 31.25 in (97.16 x 79.38 cm)

  5. Country store, Old Port Cubson Road, Mississippi, 1976 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Country store, Old Port Cubson Road, Mississippi, 1976, 1976

    Chromogenic print

    15.125 x 23.25 in (38.42 x 59.06 cm)

  6. Fugue V by William Turnbull, Image 1.

    William Turnbull

    Fugue V, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    23.125 x 31.675 in (58.74 x 80.45 cm)

  7. Untitled, from Kunstmarkt Köln by Friedrich Meckseper, Image 1.

    Friedrich Meckseper

    Untitled, from Kunstmarkt Köln, 1969

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    12.25 x 16.5 in (31.12 x 41.91 cm)

  8. She Moves in Circles of the Sun by George Lockwood, Image 1.

    George Lockwood

    She Moves in Circles of the Sun, 1965

    Lithograph with poem by Ryah Goodman on paper

    15 x 10.875 in (38.1 x 27.62 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.