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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1901 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Susan Frackelton, sitting at a table painting a bowl and surrounded by her art work and a large medal. Caption on back reads: "Mrs. Susa... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of John Steuart Curry working in his studio, holding paintbrushes. |
| Date: | 02 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Professor Roland S. Stebbins wins Madison Art Award. His award winning painting is titled, "Our Kitchen." The work placed first in the Madison Artists Exhi... |
| Date: | 03 18 1944 |
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| Description: | George I. Wallace, signmaker, making signs at his shop at 439 West Main Street. He wrote an editorial column for the newspaper, "A Layman's View of Religio... |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Alford Beckwith, seventh grade student at Longfellow School, with three of his animal paintings exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhibition at... |
| Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | John Gorman, 1st grader at Emerson, and Gretchen Hovig, 7th grader at Lapham, with their art work being exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhib... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of University of Wisconsin Art Education professor Roland S. Stebbins with one of his paintings, which he donated to the Madison Art Association f... |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Donald M. Anderson, University of Wisconsin instructor in art education, who received a $250 award at the Illinois State Fair, for a w... |
| Date: | 02 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Pattie Neilson, recent art school graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and a fashion illustrator and copy writer for a Madison women's specialty shop, ... |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Noted Chicago artist Christian Abrahamson holds a palette and paintbrushes as he stands next to a portrait of the retired chief justice of the Wisconsin Su... |
| Date: | 05 25 1952 |
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| Description: | The two award winners in the "Salon of School Art" show. On the left is the high school winner, William Bunce, a student at West high school. On the right ... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ruth Allcott, Art Director of Madison's public schools. |
| Date: | 11 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Randall Elementary School student Michael Bollig, age 8, who created a Thanksgiving cut-out poster. |
| Date: | 11 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of West Junior High School student Laura Crow, age 12, who created a crayon sketch of a family scene as viewed through a large picture window. |
| Date: | 12 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Lowell "Gooch" Jenkins was a 250-pound tackle on the University of Wisconsin’s football team, but he was also a skilled art student. After graduating, he b... |
| Date: | 01 1991 |
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| Description: | Carl Wetterberg, cartoonist, drew a cartoon for Ralph Widmer when he and his wife Helen were in Rochester, Minnesota. |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two prize winners in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Mary Jo Ylitalo (left) won second prize, and Sarah Christenson ... |
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