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| Description: | Blue-green, pear-shaped sculpture on a round base with three limb-shapes on top in Sid Boyum's backyard. The face is painted in natural colors with incise... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | Brugmansia are blooming on large bushes among plants and trees along a brick path in the Bolz Conservatory at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens. |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards Sid, standing and wearing a Japanese kimono and near the large arch, the Japanese Tea Pavilion and other lantern sculptures in his... |
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| Description: | Sculpture of Avalokiteshvara / Kannon / Guanyin (also known as the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy) in Sid's backyard. The figure depicted as either ma... |
| Date: | 09 18 2014 |
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| Description: | View of flowers and vines growing along the walls of ZuZu Cafe. A trellis is in a corner, supporting thick vines dotted with pick trumpet-shaped flowers. B... |
| Date: | 11 23 2014 |
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| Description: | A weather-worn statue of the Ho Tai (Happy Buddha) sitting on a wet rock surrounded by leaves and dead plant material. |
| Date: | 04 14 2015 |
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| Description: | Two miniature statues are sitting in a rock garden set against a wall. One of the statues is of white stone with the face of a man with a mustache blowing ... |
| Date: | 06 01 2015 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman, Solveig Quinney, pushing a wheelbarrow in her yard. Stepping stones in the lawn ring a garden plot. Other flowering bushes and pl... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | The cover design of Olds' Catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The subtitle reads: "Tells the Truth." The illustration features a melon cut in half, and veg... |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Janet Sauk standing outdoors with another woman (possibly her mother) on the day she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is wearing her... |
| Date: | 05 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Women attending the Republican Centennial Birthday party. Because the party fell on the same date as Mrs. Paul Irwin's (left) 75th birthday, she was presen... |
| Date: | 06 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Matt Berschens shows off blooming day lilies at their peak in his back yard at 17 North Mills Street. The lilies are planted in pedestal container pots and... |
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| Description: | Illustrated postcard view of Piper's Garden Cafeteria. Caption reads: "Piper's Garden Cafeteria, 120 East Mifflin Street, Madison, Wisconsin." Text on reve... |
| Date: | 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Six-foot high, concrete-cast slender abstract sculpture of an imaginative being with a human face. Jutting out of the head is a narrowing pillar. The eyes ... |
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| Description: | Slightly angled front view of a large, concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha painted red with heavily textured light-colored hair and topk... |
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| Description: | View of a large, faded concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha with heavily textured light-colored hair and topknot. With dimensions of 110"... |
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| Description: | Orange sculpture identified as "Biomorphic Form with Anchor" in Sid Boyum's backyard. It is standing on a blue rectangular base. Also pictured are the "Blu... |
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| Description: | Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed... |
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| Description: | Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed... |
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