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Sid Boyum with Sculpture

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Description: Sid Boyum playfully poking his head out from behind a sculpture of a woman's torso.
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Sid Boyum Working on Painting

Date: 1962
Description: Sid Boyum, standing in his backyard, painting a landscape depicting Little Fork River in northwest Minnesota.
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Sid Boyum Directing Video

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Description: Sid Boyum, at right in the director's chair, and a Gisholt executive on the left. They are sitting while working on a Gisholt film.
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Walt Handford Retirement Party

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Description: Sid Boyum presenting Walt Handford of Gisholt Machine Company with a signed piece of artwork at Walt's retirement party.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Sid Boyum airbrushed photograph of a baby bottle in an electric bottle warmer.
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Gisholt Machine Company Treasurer with Sid Boyum Art

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Description: The Gisholt Machine Company treasurer is standing and displaying a Sid Boyum drawing on top of a desk. The drawing was created for the treasurer in celebra...
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"Traffic"

Date: 1976
Description: Photograph of an original oil painting on canvas by Sid Boyum titled "Traffic." The work pictures a multi-colored abstract piece displayed vertically again...
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Face Disk

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Description: White face disk in Sid's backyard.
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Coffmans Posing Behind Cutouts

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Description: Carl Coffman and his mother, Evelyn B. Coffman, posing behind caricatures of a coach and a UW football player. Sid Boyum was the artist who painted the cut...
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Portrait of Young Sid with U.S. Flags

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Sid Boyum holding two U.S. Flags.
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Capitol Dome

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Description: Dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Astrolabe

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Description: Astrolabe in Sid's backyard.
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Face Disk Sculpture

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Description: Face Disk sculpture outside Sid's house.
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Sid Boyum Painting a Mural

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Description: Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro...
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Tea Garden Card with Sid Boyum in Costume

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Description: Christmas card by Sid of himself standing in his backyard in the tea garden. Boyum, in grey kimono and straw conical hat and holding a small wooden keg, is...
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Gisholt V12 Machinery

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Description: Rendering of a new piece of Gisholt V12 machinery.
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Abstract Metal Sculpture

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Description: 3-D abstract cut metal sculpture, resting on black velvet. It stands 31 inches high.
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"A Dog Gone Duck"

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Description: Artwork for Ducks Unlimited by Sid Boyum featuring "A Self Retriever" or "A Dog Gone Duck," which is half duck, half dog. The lower left corner of the post...
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House on the Rock Harp

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Description: A harp sitting in a display case at House on the Rock.
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Fiddle Player

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Description: Man playing fiddle in the kitchen of a house.

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