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Quilts at Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: A hobby show with quilts hanging on the wall, as well as tables with other crafted goods in a room with a high ceiling.
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Craft Objects at Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: Wooden tables and other crafts on display at a craft show in a room with a high ceiling.
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Bookcases, Endtables and Other Crafts at Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: Bookcase, end tables, pictures, and other crafts at a hobby show.
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Quilts and Rugs in Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: A hobby show with quilts hanging from the wall. Rugs are draped over radiators. There are also bedside tables, lamps, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair. A s...
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Bows, Arrows, and Target at Hobby Show

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: Display of bows, arrows and a target in a corner with tree branches and gravel at a hobby show. There are labels on some of the items.
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Objects on Display at Craftshow

Date: 05 13 1939
Description: A table spread with crafts at a hobby show with cards identifying the artist. The objects on display include two sets of bookends, one made by "Faye Gore" ...
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Warrington Colescott's Studio Open House

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Artist Warrington Colescott poses with paint brush in one hand and a paint palette board in the other hand as he gazes upon a nearly completed oil painting...
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Art Guild Yule Gifts

Date: 11 1954
Description: This metal wall-hanging candle holder was made from a trivet and a pendulum by Mrs. Winfield Martin for the Art Guild gift exhibit. Winfield made the candl...
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Art Guild Yule Gifts

Date: 10 1954
Description: A combination candelabra and lazy Susan made by Mrs. Winfield Martin is on display at the Art Guild holiday exhibit. The round base is an old ceiling fixtu...
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Art Guild Yule Gifts

Date: 11 1954
Description: An angel decoration was made by Fern Fowler for the Art Guild display. The decoration is for display on mantel or window and is cut from cardboard, covered...
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Art Guild Yule Gifts

Date: 10 1954
Description: Old wood and pieces of inner tubing are painted and used to make animal decorations. This was a project of Mrs. Charles Watson and her family shown at the ...
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We Saw You at the Art Exhibit

Date: 11 13 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Art Association attending the current exhibit at Scanlan Hall of the Vocational School. Left to right: Joanne and Warren Hedlin, an...
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Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit

Date: 01 15 1955
Description: Parnell Bach, West High School teacher and art instructor, helping Jon Buschke hang a painting for the Youthful Madison Artists' Exhibit at Grace Episcopal...
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We Saw You at the Art Exhibit

Date: 12 05 1954
Description: William and Annie Hussey, members of the Madison Art Association, view one of 42 paintings from the IBM collection on exhibit.
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Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit

Date: 01 15 1955
Description: Judy Fiedler pointing to a painting at the Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit at Grace Episcopal church, as Nancy Kinney, and Rev. John H. Keene, rector of G...
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We Saw You at the Art Exhibit

Date: 12 05 1954
Description: Members view an equestrian painting in the Madison Art Association's exhibit of American paintings between 1720 and 1920. They include, left to right, Noel...
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We Saw You at the Art Exhibit

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Discussing the paintings in the Madison Art Association's exhibit are, left to right: Carlisle Runge, Joyce Erdman, and Louise Brown.
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Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit

Date: 01 15 1955
Description: Webb Spraetz and Bruce Taylor sort watercolor paintings at Grace Episcopal Church for the Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit.
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Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit

Date: 01 15 1955
Description: Nancy Thielen, left, and Charlotte Chidester sorting paintings for the Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit at Grace Episcopal Church.
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We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Dorothy and D. Murray Angevine (left); and Mrs. and Mr. Masako Yamada attending the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Librar...

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