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Paint Palette with Sid Portrait

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Description: Mixed media advertisement of a hand-drawn painter's palette with brushes and swatches of paint against a black background, with the text: "Sid Boyum Graphi...
Photograph

Sid Boyum Working on Painting

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

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Portrait of Young Sid and Bernice Boyum

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Sid (right) and his younger sister, Bernice (left).
Photograph

"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...
Drawing

Candle Burning on Both Ends

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Description: Drawing of a candle burning on both ends, with wax dripping from the bottom.
Photograph

Sid Painting "Abstract Girl"

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Description: Sid Boyum painting the body of "Abstract Girl." The pattern on her body was based on one of his canvases titled "Traffic." He used Disguise Stix© on the mo...
Photograph

Sid and Geese over Lake Mendota

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Description: Painting of Sid, wearing a hat, waders, and a coat, gazing up at a group of geese flying over Lake Mendota. A fishing rod is lying on the ice near a fishin...
Photograph

Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

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Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
Photograph

Portrait of Young Sid with U.S. Flags

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Sid holding two U.S. flags crossed above his head.
Drawing

Man Looking at Picture in Gallery

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Description: Drawing of Sid Boyum standing with his hands behind his back holding a cigar and bending over to look closely at an artwork hung on the wall in a gallery. ...
Photograph

Oil Painting of Summer Cloud

Date: 08 1976
Description: Photograph of an original oil painting of a dramatic sky scene by Sid Boyum. The works shows a broad cloudy sky over a dark rural landscape, divided by a n...
Painting

Drawing of Goose

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Description: Multi-colored pointillist watercolor of a goose in flight on a golden background of bright oranges and yellows. Text in ink and graphite indicate that Sid ...
Photograph

"Zombie Girl"

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Description: Studio portrait of "Zombie Girl."
Drawing

Man Looking at Picture in Gallery

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Description: Drawing of Sid Boyum standing with his hands behind his back holding a cigar and bending over to look closely at an artwork hung on the wall in a gallery. ...
Photograph

Oil Painting of Autumn Scene

Date: 08 1976
Description: Photograph of an original oil painting of an autumn scene by Sid Boyum. The work shows a small, solitary man in dark greenish hat and coat using a walking ...
Photograph

"Abstract Girl"

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Description: Full-length portrait of "Abstract Girl" standing next to an abstract painting titled "Traffic" by artist, Sid Boyum. The painting was used as inspiration f...
Photograph

Caveman Sid

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Description: View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h...

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