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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Process of Fayth by Ryan O'Malley, Image 1.

    Ryan O'Malley

    Process of Fayth, 2008

    Lithograph on paper

    29 x 41.75 in (73.66 x 106.05 cm)

  2. Boston Blackie by Robert A. Nelson, Image 1.

    Robert A. Nelson

    Boston Blackie, 1979

    Lithograph on paper

    41.875 x 29.625 in (106.36 x 75.25 cm)

  3. BA-1 by Norman Ives, Image 1.

    Norman Ives

    BA-1, 1970

    Relief embossing on paper

    18 x 18 in (45.72 x 45.72 cm)

  4. Wake Up, Alice Dear by Graham Ovenden, Image 1.

    Graham Ovenden

    Wake Up, Alice Dear, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    26 x 20 in (66.04 x 50.8 cm)

  5. Remington's Cat by Robert A. Nelson, Image 1.

    Robert A. Nelson

    Remington's Cat, 1967

    Lithograph on paper

    22 x 29 in (55.88 x 73.66 cm)

  6. Long-tailed Duck, Fuligula Glacialis (1. Male, summer plumage. 2. Male, winter. 3. Female, young.), from John James Audubon, Birds of America by Robert Havell, Image 1.

    Robert Havell

    Long-tailed Duck, Fuligula Glacialis (1. Male, summer plumage. 2. Male, winter. 3. Female, young.), from John James Audubon, Birds of America, c. 1836

    Hand-colored engraving with aquatint print

    20 x 29 in (50.8 x 73.66 cm)

  7. Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale by John Boydell, Image 1.

    John Boydell

    Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale, 1803

    Engraving on paper

    17.25 x 23.25 in (43.82 x 59.06 cm)

  8. Arthur Segal

    Untitled, No date

    Woodcut on paper

    11.125 x 15.5 in (28.26 x 39.37 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.