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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Bone, from the series Photographic Survey of the American Yard by Joshua White, Image 1.

    Joshua White

    Bone, from the series Photographic Survey of the American Yard, 2013

    Archival pigment print

    4 x 4 in (10.16 x 10.16 cm)

  2. Terrace Hill with Engraving of Sankt Gottard, Mainz by Amy Namowitz Worthen, Image 1.

    Amy Namowitz Worthen

    Terrace Hill with Engraving of Sankt Gottard, Mainz, 1982

    Engraving on paper

    14.5 x 12.75 in (36.83 x 32.39 cm)

  3. Untitled by Donald Richard Sexauer, Image 1.

    Donald Richard Sexauer

    Untitled, 1981

    Etching on paper

    8.5 x 5.375 in (21.59 x 13.65 cm)

  4. Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series, c. 1978

    Chromogenic print

    16.875 x 13.875 in (42.86 x 35.24 cm)

  5. Leaves & Light by Joel Goldblatt, Image 1.

    Joel Goldblatt

    Leaves & Light, 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    13.125 x 10 in (33.34 x 25.4 cm)

  6. les deux Magots by Nicola Poucette, Image 1.

    Nicola Poucette

    les deux Magots, 1954

    Oil on paper

    10.25 x 14.25 in (26.04 x 36.2 cm)

  7. The Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Susan Harbage Page, Image 1.

    Susan Harbage Page

    The Anti-Archive of Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 2007-2020

    Chromogenic print

    17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)

  8. Rockie Greseno by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Rockie Greseno

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 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.