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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. WOW, Butiful, 02 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    WOW, Butiful, 02, 2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  2. Don Gibson, 2002 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Don Gibson, 2002, 2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  3. Conway Twitty, 1999 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Conway Twitty, 1999, 1999

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  4. Untitled by Dieter Roth, Image 1.

    Dieter Roth

    Untitled, 1978

    Pencil on paper

    19 x 25 in (48.26 x 63.5 cm)

  5. Cofer

    The Tourist, 1977

    Color pencil on paper

    28 x 38.5 in (71.12 x 97.79 cm)

  6. Unknown by Unknown, Image 1.

    Unknown

    Unknown, No date

    Pen and ink on paper mounted to board

    5.75 x 3.75 in (14.61 x 9.53 cm)

  7. Hawthorne at Independence by Richard Stenhouse, Image 1.

    Richard Stenhouse

    Hawthorne at Independence, No date

    Pencil and pastel on mylar

    3.75 x 9.5 in (9.53 x 24.13 cm)

  8. Untitled by Maurice Sterne, Image 1.

    Maurice Sterne

    Untitled, No date

    Pencil on paper

    15.5 x 11.375 in (39.37 x 28.89 cm)

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About the artist

Gene Merritt

American

1936-2015

Gene Merritt was an American artist based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, who never left his home state after suffering from brain damage as a boy. He was self-taught, and his access to the external world came primarily through television. Therefore, much of his work was centered around the celebrity phenomenon, with portraits being drawn from memory or otherwise loosely based off of celebrities seen in film or on TV. He began drawing in 1992, and primarily used ballpoint pen to piece together fragments of the celebrity’s figure like a puzzle. His work is noted in the Collection de l’Art Brut.