Skip to profile content
Discovery
Log In

Additional Artworks

From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Mary Ellen Mark

    Two Boys Praying in the Road, from the portfolio "In America", 1990

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  2. P210 by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    P210, 1983

    Oil crayon on paper

    30 x 21.75 in (76.2 x 55.25 cm)

  3. Horn of Plenty I by Hunt Slonem, Image 1.

    Hunt Slonem

    Horn of Plenty I, 1981

    Silkscreen on paper

    26.875 x 26 in (68.26 x 66.04 cm)

  4. Palette by James Welling, Image 1.

    James Welling

    Palette, 1976

    Pigment print

    3.375 x 4.25 in (8.57 x 10.8 cm)

  5. Summer Palace by Adja Yunkers, Image 1.

    Adja Yunkers

    Summer Palace, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    32.5 x 24.75 x 1.5 in (82.55 x 62.87 x 3.81 cm)

  6. Tehucan I by Aaron Siskind, Image 2.

    Aaron Siskind

    Tehucan I, c. 1955

    Gelatin silver print

    13.625 x 16.5 in (34.61 x 41.91 cm)

  7. Misty Morning on the Ogeechee by Hattie Saussy, Image 1.

    Hattie Saussy

    Misty Morning on the Ogeechee, No date

    Oil on canvas board

    20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

  8. Red Rose Sky and Blue Sea by Ward Jackson, Image 1.

    Ward Jackson

    Red Rose Sky and Blue Sea

    Watercolor on paper

    14.9375 x 21.75 in (37.94 x 55.25 cm)

View All Artworks

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.