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| Date: | 12 2013 |
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| Description: | Postmodern works of art hanging, somewhat chaotically, on a corner wall. There are photographs of people combined with found object sculptures. Other sculp... |
| Date: | 04 2014 |
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| Description: | View of the display case of John Muir's mechanical clock desk, which is on the ground floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 05 2014 |
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| Description: | Oak-encased pendulum wall clock hanging in an antique store. In the foreground is a desk lamp, with a Tiffany style glass lamp shade with a rose motif, sit... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman are sitting at a table near the front window of a coffeehouse. Just outside the window a man and woman are sitting outdoors under ... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a wooden desk sitting in the corner of a room, with a plain wooden chair tucked under it. Curtains frame windows on either side of the des... |
| Date: | 09 07 2014 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a window sitting high up in a white lime-plastered wall, letting light into Hauge Church, a small Lutheran church built in 1852 by Norwegi... |
| Date: | 09 18 2014 |
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| Description: | View of the Annie Stewart Memorial Fountain. The base of the circular fountain is decorated with a repeated motif of shells and flowers. A sculpture is at ... |
| Date: | 09 26 2014 |
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| Description: | View of wooden bookshelves built into the wall. Books, cds, a cd player and radio, two tall speakers, small statues and pottery fill the shelves. A lamp on... |
| Date: | 10 28 2014 |
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| Description: | A man standing and observing photographs on display on the wall of the James Watrous Gallery. The photography is black and white, showing images of buildin... |
| Date: | 11 10 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a red chair in front of a desk with built-in shelves. In the center is a Macintosh computer and keyboard. A telephone, lamp, and magnifying lens ar... |
| Date: | 11 16 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a living room looking towards a set of large windows looking out on a deck with a railing. Potted plants are sitting on stands on the carpet in fro... |
| Date: | 01 11 2015 |
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| Description: | A sign with a large photograph of the head of a Sandhill crane is standing at the edge of a forest on a trail. The ground is covered in snow. There are hou... |
| Date: | 01 18 2015 |
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| Description: | Inside view of display cases of rocks and geodes along the front windows of the store. "Burnie's Rock Shop" is painted in reverse on the window. Two street... |
| Date: | 01 19 2015 |
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| Description: | View of a bookshelf with two shelved filled with books. Along the shelves in front of the books are figurine of two men drinking tea, a clay duck, two figu... |
| Date: | 03 02 2015 |
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| Description: | Solveig, the photographer's wife, sitting in a chair by a window reading a newspaper. A coffee cup is sitting on the window sill next to her, and magazines... |
| Date: | 07 17 2015 |
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| Description: | View of a blue ceramic bowl sitting on an ornately decorated cloth. Behind it is a poster or page from a book with two photographs of a monarch butterfly e... |
| Date: | 07 20 2015 |
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| Description: | Ceramic mask of the Green Man hanging on a white stucco wall. |
| Date: | 07 25 2015 |
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| Description: | Carved wooden figure of a Nisse playing a fiddle. The figure has a long white beard and is wearing a red cap. Norwegian words carved into the base of the f... |
| Date: | 08 22 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up of green box in the shape of a house hanging on a pink stucco wall. A pink photograph of trees is framed by the hinged door of the box. |
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