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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Black Ice by James Welling, Image 1.

    James Welling

    Black Ice, 2010

    Pigment print

    10.625 x 16 in (26.99 x 40.64 cm)

  2. Bestia by Russ Warren, Image 1.

    Russ Warren

    Bestia, 1995

    Oil on paper

    40.5 x 32 in (102.87 x 81.28 cm)

  3. The Trees of Eden #4 by Evelyn Ellwood, Image 1.

    Evelyn Ellwood

    The Trees of Eden #4, 1986

    Acrylic on canvas

    69 x 53.75 in (175.26 x 136.53 cm)

  4. Untitled, from The Louisiana Project by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from The Louisiana Project, c. 1980

    Chromogenic print

    20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.96 cm)

  5. Untitled (79-12-5) by Garo Zareh Antreasian, Image 1.

    Garo Zareh Antreasian

    Untitled (79-12-5), 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    18.125 x 15 in (46.04 x 38.1 cm)

  6. Coal Miner, Lens, France by Louis Stettner, Image 1.

    Louis Stettner

    Coal Miner, Lens, France, 1978

    Gelatin silver print

    26.5 x 20.125 in (67.31 x 51.12 cm)

  7. Janis Joplin & Mies van der Rohe by Misch Kohn, Image 1.

    Misch Kohn

    Janis Joplin & Mies van der Rohe, 1971

    Lithograph on paper

    30.25 x 24.75 in (76.84 x 62.87 cm)

  8. Chairs of Paris, 1927, Paris by André Kertész, Image 1.

    André Kertész

    Chairs of Paris, 1927, Paris, 1927

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 18 in (35.56 x 45.72 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.