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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A painted portrait of Walter Jodok Kohler completed after his death. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A painting of a dairy farm, which was part of the State Fair Centennial mural. |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Anna Harrison, painted by her son Mark R. Harrison. |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic... |
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| Description: | Photographic print of a waist-up painting of Mason C. Darling. Darling served as a member of U.S. House of Representative from the 2nd District in Wisconsi... |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Governor Louis P. Harvey, 7th governor of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | This genre work, titled "Spearing Time," was painted in 1999 by Geri Schrab, a self-taught watercolor artist in De Forest, Wisconsin. Schrab was first insp... |
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| Description: | Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men are operating farm machinery being pulled by a team of horses through a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a bonnet is raking a field crop in the foreground. Behind her several farmers are operating a horse-drawn farming machine through the field... |
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