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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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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 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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Sid Boyum's Backyard

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of Sid Boyum's background taken from the second floor of his house. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrub...
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"Biomorphic Form with Anchor"

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Description: Orange sculpture identified as "Biomorphic Form with Anchor" in Sid Boyum's backyard. It is standing on a blue rectangular base. Also pictured are the "Blu...
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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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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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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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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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"Monumental Oriental Head"

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Description: View of a large, faded concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha with heavily textured light-colored hair and topknot. With dimensions of 110"...
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White "Multi-Tiered Pagoda"

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Description: Unfinished cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Multi-tiered Pagoda" and measuring 92" x 32" x 32." It is standing in Sid Boyum's backyard. The brick wal...
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Cambodian Lion Armature

Date: 07 1969
Description: Armature made of flat, interlocking plywood pieces sitting on the lawn in Sid's backyard, in the general shape of the Cambodian Lion sculpture. Parts of th...
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...
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"Monumental Oriental Head"

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Description: Slightly angled front view of a large, concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha painted red with heavily textured light-colored hair and topk...
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Buddha Head and Pagoda

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Description: Sid's backyard with Asian-themed, concrete-cast sculptures titled "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha (with dimensions of 110" x 45" x 78"), "Multi-Tier...
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"Geometric with Round Window"

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Description: Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed...
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"Geometric with Round Window"

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Description: Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed...
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"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos...

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