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Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon

Date: 04 08 1959
Description: First prize winners at the Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon include, from left to right, Eloise Haas, Ellsworth Mack, Dorothy Angevine, and Rea Ragatz.
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Artists Call Against US Intervention In Central America

Date: 01 1984
Description: Includes artist's statement and names (including Emile de Antonio) and calendar of events. Poster design: Claes Oldenburg. Funds for poster from artists an...
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Braided Rugs

Date: 10 08 1959
Description: Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug.
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Lowell Jenkins, Athlete and Sculptor

Date: 12 09 1959
Description: Lowell "Gooch" Jenkins was a 250-pound tackle on the University of Wisconsin’s football team, but he was also a skilled art student. After graduating, he b...
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Rural Arts and Crafts Show

Date: 01 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Wilbur Schoephorster shows her oil painting, "Hunter's Cabin," which was awarded one of 38 top state honors in last year's Rural Arts and Crafts Show....
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Carl Wetterburg

Date: 01 1991
Description: Carl Wetterberg, cartoonist, drew a cartoon for Ralph Widmer when he and his wife Helen were in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Randy Olson holds his fourth-prize winning landscape painting at the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Admiring the painting are three...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Contest judge Mrs. Daisy Breyer (left) and Central High school art teacher Mrs. Merrie Wisiol (right) admire the painting of Beverly Fries, a fifth-place w...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Sandy Rasmussen discusses her first-prize winning painting in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders with Ruth Allcott, art director of ...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Portrait of two prize winners in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Mary Jo Ylitalo (left) won second prize, and Sarah Christenson ...
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Franz Hölzlhuber

Date: 1856
Description: Waist-up portrait of Franz Holzlhuber.
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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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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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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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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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Man with Beard

Date: 04 10 2014
Description: The La Crosse based artist John Satory and his long white beard, in partial profile at the DMI Trend Showcase in the Cargill Room.
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Frank Zetzman in Performance

Date: 1983
Description: Artist Frank Zetzman, sitting on a stone wall and wearing a head sculpture created from native vegetation for a grant-funded on-site performance piece conc...
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Irving Dickman's 3-D Oil Paintings

Date: 08 08 1961
Description: Irving Dickman is shown "building" ads for newspapers in the same precise manner he uses in oil paintings.
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Irving Dickman's 3-D Oil Paintings

Date: 08 08 1961
Description: Irving Dickman demonstrates his use of small brushes in his paintings to build up the paint, giving the impression of 3-D. The example he is using is his p...

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