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| Description: | Shaded sculpture, identified as "Creature Abstract," in Sid Boyum's backyard. Painted entirely white, the sculpture uses bold negative spaces with curvilin... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | View looking into Sid's backyard with his concrete sculptures set among the trees and plants bordering the lawn. A large dog-lion sculpture is in the foreg... |
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| Description: | Buddha head, titled "Monumental Oriental Head," surrounded by trees and shrubs in Sid's background. With dimensions of 110 x 45 x 78 inches, it sits on a t... |
| Date: | 09 1969 |
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| Description: | Southeast Asian-styled "Guardian Lion" concrete-cast sculpture on a large rectangular base painted blue in Sid's backyard. In the background is the white "... |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | Tall cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Blue Tripod" in Sid's backyard near a fence. It measures 104" x 31" x 54". An abstract fish-like form identifie... |
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| Description: | Large Cambodian-styled, cast concrete "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha painted red in Sid's backyard with heavily textured light-colored hair and top... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | Sid's backyard with Cambodian-styled sculptures titled "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha and "Stylized Oriental Lion." The head stands 110" x 45" x 78... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Large concrete-cast sculpture identified as "Blue Dragon Urn" in Sid's backyard. It is painted blue with an Asian styled dragon in red wrapped around it. A... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the... |
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| Description: | White-washed, cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Multi-tiered Pagoda" and measuring 92" x 32" x 32". It stands in Sid's backyard in front of a tree. Tw... |
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| Description: | Tall blue pillar identified as "Odd Tower" with a grinning face at the top. A figure partway down has its head inside the pillar and feet braced against th... |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| 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... |
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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... |
| Date: | 09 1977 |
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| Description: | Unpainted wooden Japanese torii gate and a side view of sculptural arch of a standing old man in Sid's backyard. The man, with a prodigious nose, big blue ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea... |
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