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| Date: | 12 27 1945 |
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| Description: | John Steuart Curry standing next to an action painting of David N. Schreiner, an All-American end in 1942 who was killed in action on Okinawa in 1945, whil... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Mr. Per Lysne rosemaling a smorgasbord platter. |
| Date: | 02 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Professor Roland S. Stebbins wins Madison Art Award. His award winning painting is titled, "Our Kitchen." The work placed first in the Madison Artists Exhi... |
| Date: | 03 18 1944 |
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| Description: | George I. Wallace, signmaker, making signs at his shop at 439 West Main Street. He wrote an editorial column for the newspaper, "A Layman's View of Religio... |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Alford Beckwith, seventh grade student at Longfellow School, with three of his animal paintings exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhibition at... |
| Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | John Gorman, 1st grader at Emerson, and Gretchen Hovig, 7th grader at Lapham, with their art work being exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhib... |
| Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Allen Steinmetz, 4th grader at Marquette, Berry Cass, 6th grader at Emerson, and Richard Bender, 9th grader at Central Jr. High School, with their painting... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of University of Wisconsin Art Education professor Roland S. Stebbins with one of his paintings, which he donated to the Madison Art Association f... |
| Date: | 01 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Julius Rehder, artist (1861-1955) with his son, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Helmut Rehder, looking at an oil painting done by the father when... |
| Date: | 03 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Native American artist working at an easel, taken for WHA, the Wisconsin State radio station. |
| Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Alex Hardie painting a watercolor with the brush held between his teeth. Alex lost portions of both arms in a railroad accident in 1900. |
| Date: | 04 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Eight men standing around a microphone in the NBC-WIBA broadcast studio including Charles A. Mittelstadt, radio commentator. |
| Date: | 02 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Julius Rehder with his "Portrait of a Gentleman," which won first prize in oils at the Madison Artist's exhibition. The painting, which received the Oscar ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Byron Jorns with his "Deserted" farm scene, which won the Harry S. Manchester award of $50 for watercolors in the Madison Artist's exhibition. |
| Date: | 02 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition. |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Graduate art students left to right: James Storey, Robert Overman Hodgell, and John Wilde, all University of Wisconsin graduate art students, display their... |
| Date: | 08 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Donald M. Anderson, University of Wisconsin instructor in art education, who received a $250 award at the Illinois State Fair, for a w... |
| Date: | 09 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Back in Madison after 27 years is Richard Neumann, one-time organist at the Orpheum and Parkway theaters. Neumann was the organist... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Byron C. Jorns hanging a watercolor painting for an exhibit at the Madison Bank and Trust Company. A series of exhibitions was arranged by the bank to enco... |
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