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Sid Fishing on River

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Description: View from shoreline towards Sid Boyum fishing while standing on a pile of rocks near a river. Near Sid on the opposite shoreline is a collapsed building on...
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Sid Fishing in Rowan Creek

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Description: View looking down towards Sid, with a cigar in his mouth, sitting on the limb of a fallen tree while trout fishing in Rowan Creek.
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Sid Fishing in Rowan Creek

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Description: View along shoreline towards Sid, sitting on the curved trunk of a tree growing low along the ground, fishing in Rowan Creek. He has a cigar in his mouth, ...
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Blue Pillar Sculpture with the Artist

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Description: Sid Boyum standing in his backyard between the Blue Pillar with Figure and Pelican, and a large white Lantern sculpture. Other sculptures are in the backgr...
Painting

Man Fishing in Stream Below Dam

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Description: Painting of a man fishing in a stream below a dam.
Photograph

Hindsite, Foresight

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Description: Sid sitting backwards on a donkey, with a cigar in his mouth and wearing a hat. He is looking through what appears to be a pair of binoculars. Caption at t...
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Man with Shotgun Hunting

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Description: Al Dvorak with a shotgun walking on a road. Snow is on the ground.
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Fishing at the Falls

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Description: View along shoreline towards a man fishing on a river with a series of small waterfalls behind him.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Newspaper Illustration

Date: 1962
Description: Sid's illustration in a newspaper. Two men are sitting in a car driving on a road. A deer is leaping over them. On the bottom, an ode by Sid reads: "We hee...
Photograph

Sid Posing with His Sculptures

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Description: Sid standing in the backyard on Waubesa Street among his forest of concrete cast sculptures, like the "Multi-Tiered Pagoda," "Blue Tripod," and "Biomorphic...
Photograph

Man in Bathtub Outdoors

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Description: Curt Martin sitting in a clawfoot bathtub outdoors and holding oars as if the he was rowing. Behind the man are plants and a broken snow fence.
Photograph

Portaging by White River

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Description: Man sitting at the aft of a canoe in a wooded river area. There is an outboard motor leaning against a tree in the center of the image. Handwritten text ca...
Photograph

Lone Fisherman

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Description: View from shoreline across water towards a man standing and fishing at the narrow inlet of a large body of water in the background. The man is wearing a ha...
Print

"Wishing You 9 Lives" Birthday Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ...
Poster

"Help Me Drive Snakes Out Of Ireland"

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Description: A woman with green hair is holding a green stick with the text "Ohio" on it. Drawn in green is a snake at top right, wearing a hat, and clover leaves. On t...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1970
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands...
Photograph

Man Fishing in Chair

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Description: View across a marshy area towards a man, Mike Heberlein (of Cambridge), fishing while sitting in a wooden, ladder-back, dining chair that is submerged in t...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1969
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on...
Drawing

"Love" Couple Embracing under Mistletoe

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Description: Ink drawing of a couple standing and embracing. The woman is laughing while reaching with one hand into the man's jacket pocket. There is a small kerosene ...
Drawing

Sandals

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Description: Drawing of red-bearded leprechaun with a pipe in his mouth. He is holding up a curved bat (perhaps a shillelagh) in one hand and an oversized three-leafed ...

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