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Seen on Campus: Brass Section (Jamming at Minton’s)

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October 12th, 2025

Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988)Brass Section (Jamming at Minton's), from the "Jazz" series, 1979Lithograph in colors on paper24.75 x 32.5 in.Gift of Carol Quillen, 18th President of Davidson College, and George McLendon It is difficult to capture the essence of sound through visual media. Already is it difficult to translate music into a visual language. It becomes even more complicated when that music is jazz. Jazz is as expansive as any other music genre, consisting of a myriad of subgenres and styles, making it impossible to pigeonhole. That’s why jazz is just as often associated with easy-listening, elevator music, as it...
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Seen on Campus: Student Curators Take ART300 Learning Beyond the Classroom

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October 9th, 2025
Since the spring, the Belk Visual Arts Center has displayed the product of months of learning, critical thinking, and collaboration. On view in the rear of the Missy Boaz Woodward '78 Atrium, Shades of Separation: Women in the Grey Area represents the combined efforts of fifteen students, mostly current senior art history majors.  ART300, or Critical Theory for Visual Study, is a methods course through which rising art historians investigate critical frameworks for artwork analysis. Under the guidance of Art Department Chair John Corso-Esquivel, the students illustrated their learning through this class-wide curatorial project. In March, the students developed several...
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Seen on Campus: Perforated Seascape #2 (Red) Landscape

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September 25th, 2025

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)Perforated Seascape #2 (Red) Landscape, 1965Porcelain enamel on perforated steel Located at Belk Visual Arts Center, 1st Floor Hallway Roy Lichtenstein is best known for his bold Pop Art creations from the 1960s, which often feature comic book heroines encapsulated in speech bubbles above fields of Benday dots. However, his work goes beyond pop imagery, often including sculptural forms and reimagined landscapes. In Perforated Seascape #2 (Red) Landscape, Lichtenstein applies his Pop Art perspective to one of art history's oldest subjects: the landscape. Instead of using ink on paper or oil on canvas, he employs porcelain enamel...
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Seen in Storage: The Family

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September 18th, 2025

Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984)The Family, 1982 31.5 x 27 inLithograph in colors on Arches paper Every fall at Davidson is marked with a dull ache of homesickness. Each year, I forget about this feeling, perhaps burying the emotion, trying to prevent it from resurfacing. Yet, each fall, the absence of my family hangs over my head, following me to class, hovering while I chat with friends, wrapped around me as I fall asleep.  I think this is part of the reason I always remember Alice Neel’s The Family. It hung on the first floor of Chambers for a while, and...
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Seen in Storage: Court Avenue Underpass

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August 5th, 2025

Amy Namowitz Worthen (American, b. 1946)Court Avenue Underpass, 1982Engraving on Paper14.5 x 12.625 in.Gift of Christopher A. Graf Peering into the organized abyss of Court Avenue Underpass, the sweeping arches draw me into the cross-hatched expanse and a half-oval of light under one of the arches suggests the brightness outside the tunnel which contrasts the dark, enclosed interior of the space depicted below the underpass. On the right-hand side of the print, a column rises suddenly out of the flat expanse and the bottom half of the column ripples into the flat-edged base.  Amy Namowitz Worthen’s other engravings on paper...
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