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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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Drawing

"Keep It Under Your Hat!"

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Description: Portrait of Sid wearing a top hat and with a cigar in his mouth. A bird is sticking its head out of the top of the hat. Machine parts and factory whistles ...
Photograph

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 ...
Print

This Moment Too . .

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Description: On the left is the back of the card, with a photograph of swans on a lake surrounded by trees. The title reads: "The meek shall inherit . . ." On the right...
Photograph

Goose Sculpture in Sid's Backyard

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Description: Prone flat sculpture of a goose in flight set in a bed of white gravel in the lawn of Sid's backyard. It is a gray slab cut to look like a flying bird. The...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season (Unpublished)

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Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: a cigar-smoking fisherman holding a broken rod; a young Nancy Ryan with one leg propped on a ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
Photograph

Sculptures in Sid's Backyard

Date: 08 1970
Description: "Six-Sided Red Lantern," "Three-Tiered Fountain" and a flat goose cut from gray stone (laid in a bed of white gravel) in Sid's backyard. A corner of the pa...
Poster

"S.O.B. Save Our Bartender"

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Description: Poster with a portrait of a man wearing a captain's style hat with the insignia of a bottle, and eyeglasses, with a beard and moustache, with a noose aroun...

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