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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. LGBTQ Community Quilt Project, Image 1.

    LGBTQ Community Quilt Project, 2024

    Textiles

    54.5 x 39.25 in (138.43 x 99.7 cm)

  2. Reolistic Films, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Reolistic Films, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  3. Clark Kent, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Clark Kent, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.875 in (27.94 x 22.54 cm)

  4. Diane Von Furstenberg by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Diane Von Furstenberg, 1984

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  5. An African Folktale by Willow Legge, Image 9.

    Willow Legge

    An African Folktale, 1979

    Screenprint and embossing on paper

    14.875 x 11.4375 in (37.78 x 29.05 cm)

  6. 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)

  7. Cigar by Patrick Caulfield, Image 1.

    Patrick Caulfield

    Cigar, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    22.625 x 24 in (57.47 x 60.96 cm)

  8. Whoa by Karl Knaths, Image 1.

    Karl Knaths

    Whoa, 1969

    Lithograph on paper

    30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

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About the artist

Graham Ovenden

British

b. 1943

British painter, photographer, photo-historian, and writer. Ovenden studied at the Royal College of Music and Southampton School of Art and graduated from the Royal College of Art (1968). He was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1975). His work is extremely controversial, and he was prosecuted but not found guilty for a production of hoax calotypes which he claimed were of Victorian street children (1980). In the 1990s, his work was investigated by the US and UK authorities as possible child pornography. (2009) He was charged by the UK for creating indecent images, but the trials collapsed. A few years later, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault relating to the girls who modelled for him (2013). Many of his pieces have been either confiscated by the British government, banned by both countries, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible.