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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Sid Boyum in his backyard proudly holding a medal he won for an entry to the Burlington Liars Club in 1976. The entry read: "During a ... |
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| Description: | Sid standing in the backyard on Waubesa Street among his forest of concrete cast sculptures, like the "Multi-Tiered Pagoda," "Blue Tripod," and "Biomorphic... |
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| Description: | Sid standing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard. Holding a cigar in his mouth, he wears a dark beret, a short-sleeved white button-down shirt, dark... |
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| Description: | Metal astrolabe mounted on concrete base in Sid's backyard. The base is painted red with yellow Chinese characters, and the astrolabe is painted gold, with... |
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| Description: | Cast concrete sculpture of headless female form, mounted on square base in Sid's backyard, under the Tea Garden archway. In the foreground is a small arche... |
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| Description: | Sun-lit sculpture, identified as "Creature Abstract," in Sid's backyard. Painted entirely white, the sculpture uses bold negative spaces with curvilinear s... |
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| Description: | Small, white, triangular abstract form on square two-tiered base in Sid's backyard. |
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| Description: | White-washed, cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Multi-tiered Pagoda" and measuring 92" x 32" x 32". It stands in Sid's backyard in front of a tree. Tw... |
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| Description: | Tall blue pillar identified as "Odd Tower" with a grinning face at the top. A figure partway down has its head inside the pillar and feet braced against th... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum standing in his backyard between the Blue Pillar with Figure and Pelican, and a large white Lantern sculpture. Other sculptures are in the backgr... |
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| Description: | Sculpture of a woman's torso called "Biomorphic Female Abstract in Pink" in Sid's backyard near the side of the house. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Sid standing and carving the sculpture of a woman's torso "Biomorphic Female Abstract in Pink" with a hammer and a chisel in his backyard. |
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| Description: | Cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Blue Tripod" in Sid's backyard near a fence. It measures 104" x 31" x 54". |
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| Description: | Sid standing next to his sculpture of a woman's torso "Biomorphic Female Abstract in Pink" in his backyard near his porch. |
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| Description: | Sid's "African-Influenced Sculpture" in his backyard near the side of a building near a fence. |
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| Description: | Semi-abstract, yellow cast concrete sculpture, called "Female Teardrop." Similar to prehistoric "Venus" figures, it has prominent breasts and wide hips. Th... |
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| Description: | Buddha head, titled "Monumental Oriental Head," surrounded by trees and shrubs in Sid's background. With dimensions of 110 x 45 x 78 inches, it sits on a t... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Japanese Tea Pavilion with an Oriental Ground Lantern and "Closed Abstraction in White" in Sid's backyard. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background. |
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| Description: | Sid's "Blue Tripod" among other sculptures in his backyard. The tripod measures 104" x 31" x 54". Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background. |
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| Description: | Sculpture "Feminine Torso" in Sid's backyard. There is a hand pump in the foreground on the left. |
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