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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Double Body by Jackie Milad, Image 1.

    Jackie Milad

    Double Body, 2022

    Mixed media canvas collage

    37.5 x 18 in (95.25 x 45.72 cm)

  2. Clever Hunter, Two Foxes by Gay Rogers, Image 1.

    Gay Rogers

    Clever Hunter, Two Foxes, 1979

    Lithograph on paper

    20.125 x 15.125 in (51.12 x 38.42 cm)

  3. Circle by Michael Heizer, Image 1.

    Michael Heizer

    Circle, 1976

    Rosewood

    2.25 x 24.125 x 24.125 in (5.72 x 61.28 x 61.28 cm)

  4. Leslie Caron by Philippe Halsman, Image 1.

    Philippe Halsman

    Leslie Caron, 1952

    Gelatin silver print

    10.75 x 14 in (27.31 x 35.56 cm)

  5. Bernice Abbott With Cat by Barbara Morgan, Image 1.

    Barbara Morgan

    Bernice Abbott With Cat, 1944

    Gelatin silver print

    17 x 12.5 in (43.18 x 31.75 cm)

  6. Hercules Sets Up The Columns of Gades by Hans Sebald Beham, Image 2.

    Hans Sebald Beham

    Hercules Sets Up The Columns of Gades, 1545

    Engraving on paper

    1.75 x 3 in (4.45 x 7.62 cm)

  7. Arthur Segal

    Untitled, No date

    Woodcut on paper

    11.375 x 15.5 in (28.89 x 39.37 cm)

  8. Oscar Actress, 2001-2002 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Oscar Actress, 2001-2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

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About the artist

Will Petersen

American

1928-1994

American master painter, printer, and cartoonist. He was also a poet, an abstract expressionist, and a Beat Era painter born in Chicago, Illinois. He acted in Japanese B-movies and was the owner of Evanston's Plucked Chicken Press, which he started with his third wife. In 1952, he was drafted by the US Army and sent to Korea, then to Hokkaido, Japan. He learned the art of calligraphy under Master Tahaa and fell in love with ancient Noh plays, as he continued to perform in a troupe while teaching English at Japanese colleges and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. He then moved back to United States to teach drawing at Ohio State University with his family. After divorcing his Japanese wife, he married Cynthia Archer, a printmaking graduate from Wester Virginia University, where he taught as the head of the printmaking department. In his remaining years until his death in 1994, he solely focused on his own works.