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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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Sid Sitting on Couch Reading

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Description: Sid sitting on the couch in his living room.
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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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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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Sid Boyum Working on Sculpture in Backyard

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Description: Waist-up view of Sid working on a sculpture inspired by South Asian styles in his backyard. Trees and shrubs are shading the yard.
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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: Eccentric in Paradise

Date: 04 09 1979
Description: View of Sid Boyum sitting in his living room at 237 Waubesa Street. He is sitting on a couch and holding a jug previously used for vinegar, which he sculpt...
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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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Sid Sitting in Living Room

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Description: Sid sitting on a couch reading a book in his living room amidst Asian furnishings and objects.
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Sid with Sculpture of Viking Troll

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Description: Sid standing in his kitchen looking at a sculpture of a Viking troll set up on a stool.
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Sid Carving Sculpture

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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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Sid with Sculpture of Viking Troll

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Description: Sid is standing in his kitchen looking at a sculpture of a Viking troll set up on a stool.
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Sid Boyum with Sculpture in Backyard

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Description: Sid is standing in his backyard posing with a sculpture. More sculptures and the torii gate are in the yard behind him among shrubs. The Madison-Kipp Corpo...
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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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Sid Going Through the Wringer

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Description: Sid in darkroom with a cigar in his mouth, rolling a miniature, printed cut-out version of himself through a photographic print wringer in a darkroom. Sid ...

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