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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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Drawing of Insect in Garden

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Description: Imaginative insect crouched in a fantastical garden among flowers and plants.
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Sid's Sculptures in his Backyard

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Description: Three Tiered Fountain, "Live in Fear," lantern in beige, and torii gate in Sid's backyard.
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Ponds and Bamboo

Date: 06 1971
Description: Sid's backyard with a small concrete pond and bamboo, Cedar trees and a fence. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background.
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Gazing Ball with Reflections of Sid and Woman

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Description: Reflection of Sid, holding a camera, and an unknown woman, standing in front of a gazing ball in a garden.
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Painted Plow in Sid's Backyard

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Description: A plow with handles, plowshare and hitch is painted with multicolored design of spirals, dots and chevrons. A red concrete lantern is on the left, and leaf...
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Sea Horse Sculpture

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Description: White horse sculpture with fish tail on a base of swirling water forms, in front of the Astrolabe and a medium-sized white lantern in Sid's backyard.
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Bodhisattva of Compassion and Mercy

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Description: Sculpture of Avalokiteshvara / Kannon / Guanyin (also known as the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy) in Sid's backyard. The figure depicted as either ma...
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Pagoda Installation in Sid's Backyard

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Description: Sid and some friends carrying the roof for his pagoda, ready to be installed. On the right with hand on hip is Sid's friend Russell Pratt Metcalf.
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Three Geese Flying Sculpture

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Description: Three flat goose shapes, with wings outstretched, one above the other on a square post set at an angle, set in the yard among garden plants, shrubs, and a ...
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Decorative Garden Sculpture

Date: 01 19 1975
Description: 12-foot-high Cambodian warrior head sculpture in the garden at 237 Waubesa Street. It was made from concrete by the artist Sydney Boyum. Many of his scuptu...
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Bonsai

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Description: Colored ink drawing of a bonsai from The House on the Rock, colored with felt pen in orange, green, brown and yellow. The small tree is sitting in front of...
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Astrolabe in Red

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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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Outdoor Lantern

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Description: Colored ink drawing on paper of a red metal lantern on a stone wall at The House on the Rock. A denuded tree is on the left, on the face of Deep Shelter Ro...
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Sculptures in Sid's Backyard

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Description: View across Sid's backyard with a shed structure in the background. In the yard are plants, trees, and sculptures which are surrounding a large, white, lan...
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Sid in his Backyard Garden

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Description: View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ...
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Sculptures in Sid's Backyard

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Description: Backyard with Cambodian Lion in foreground, white lantern, multi-tiered pagoda, tea house roof and torii gate on the lawn in Sid's backyard. Madison-Kipp C...
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Sid in his Backyard

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Description: View across lawn towards Sid, standing and wearing a Japanese kimono and near the large arch, the Japanese Tea Pavilion and other lantern sculptures in his...
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Waterfall at The House on the Rock

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Description: Black pen ink drawing on tracing paper of the exterior water feature. There are two rows of square glass windows on the Mill House, and tree trunks, shrubs...
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Sid's Backyard with Sculptures and Factory Building

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Description: View looking into Sid's backyard with his concrete sculptures set among the trees and plants bordering the lawn. A large dog-lion sculpture is in the foreg...

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