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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Eye #10 (Telephone Wires) by Alex Prager, Image 1.

    Alex Prager

    Eye #10 (Telephone Wires), 2012

    Archival pigment print

    16.25 x 18.75 in (41.28 x 47.63 cm)

  2. George Kosinski

    Jerusalem of Gold, 2011

    Watercolor on paper

  3. Ginger Read, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Ginger Read, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  4. Wind Instruments by Simon Cutts, Image 14.

    Simon Cutts

    Wind Instruments, 1980

    Wire, wood, embossed paper, photographic prints on paper, chestnut wood box

    17.875 x 24.25 in (45.4 x 61.6 cm)

  5. Damn Lines Are Worse Than Ever by Paul Szep, Image 1.

    Paul Szep

    Damn Lines Are Worse Than Ever, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    15.125 x 22.125 in (38.42 x 56.2 cm)

  6. Virginia Peal Davis, Rose Hill, Miss. by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Virginia Peal Davis, Rose Hill, Miss., 1969

    Gelatin silver print

    13.5 x 9 in (34.29 x 22.86 cm)

  7. Allan Aldan by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Allan Aldan

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  8. Navajo Transitional Banded Wedge Weave Blanket by Unknown, Image 1.

    Unknown

    Navajo Transitional Banded Wedge Weave Blanket, ca. 1880-1890

    Handspun wool, aniline dyes; hand-woven

    77.5 x 54 in (196.85 x 137.16 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.