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Sid Boyum with Sculpture

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Description: Sid Boyum playfully poking his head out from behind a sculpture of a woman's torso.
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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...
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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.
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Gisholt Machine Company Treasurer with Sid Boyum Art

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Description: The Gisholt Machine Company treasurer is standing and displaying a Sid Boyum drawing on top of a desk. The drawing was created for the treasurer in celebra...
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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...
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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).
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Sid with Sculpture of Viking Troll

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Description: Sid standing in his kitchen looking at a sculpture of a Viking troll set up on a stool.
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Sid with Sculpture of Viking Troll

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Description: Sid is standing in his kitchen looking at a sculpture of a Viking troll set up on a stool.
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Sid with "Biomorphic Femal Abstract in Pink"

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Description: Sid standing next to his sculpture of a woman's torso "Biomorphic Female Abstract in Pink" in his backyard near his porch.
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Fiddle Player

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Description: Man playing fiddle in the kitchen of a house.
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Man with Horse Sculpture

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Description: Portrait of a man standing behind a horse sculpture.
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Sid with Clay Model of Sambo

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Description: Sid posing with a clay model of Sambo, one of the Milwaukee County Zoo's gorillas during the 1950s. Sid is wearing a suit and has a cigar in his mouth. Beh...
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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.
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Sid at Home

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Description: Sid sitting in a chair at home with his chin in his hand and a cigar in his mouth. A statue of a walrus and a bookcase full of books is in the background.
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Sid in his Backyard Garden

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Description: View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ...
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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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John Cato, Shriner

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Description: Portrait of John Cato, a Shriner, in Sid Boyum's front room, wearing a Zembo Temple fez and black formal suit. He is in front of a Buddha relief on the wal...
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John Cato, Shriner

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Description: Portrait of John Cato, a Shriner, wearing a top hat, formal black suit and large chain necklace with a medallion. He is sitting in Sid Boyum's front room i...
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"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...
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Sid in a Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid posing next to the print dryer in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He has his signature cigar, holding it to his mouth. ...

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