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Mrs. Kohler Examines Rental Art Works

Date: 03 20 1951
Description: Charlotte Kohler, the governor's wife, examining several works of art which she has chosen to rent for display in the Governor's Residence from the Madison...
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Professor Roland S. Stebbins

Date: 02 28 1944
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...
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Child Salon of Art Winner with John Steuart Curry

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a...
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Child Salon of Art

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: Billy Gorman, third grade student at Emerson School, is showing Robert Murray, sixth grade student at Lowell School, his picture displayed in the Child Sal...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and John Steuart Curry standing in front of "Our Good Earth," by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union e...
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Professor Roland S. Stebbins with Painting

Date: 10 12 1944
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...
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Byron C. Jorns and Private Sam Fleischer

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Private Sam Fleischer on the left,of New York City stationed at Truax Field in the radio school, and watercolor artist Byron C. Jorns on the right, standin...
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Max Fernekes with Paintings

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Max Fernekes of Mineral Point with a display of his watercolors and sketches for a one-man show at the State Historical Museum. He was also a featured arti...
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Madison Youth Center "The LOFT"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: Students painting a mural for the opening of "The LOFT," a high school activities center, at the YMCA. LOFT = Lots Of Fun Times. Left to right: Joan Wells,...
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Julius Rehder Art Show

Date: 01 02 1945
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...
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Madison Artists Exhibition Winners

Date: 02 04 1945
Description: Winners of high awards and prizes at the sixth Madison Artists exhibition. Left to right: Robert Schellin is holding his son Peter, Oscar F. Mayer Purchase...
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Winifred Ford with her Watercolors

Date: 05 01 1945
Description: Winifred (Bonnewitz) Ford with several of her watercolor paintings from the exhibit at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin titled "Old Homes in Madis...
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Painters on Safway Steel Scaffolds

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: Two painters, shown on a Company scaffold from Safway Steel Scaffolds, at Villa Maria, 615 Howard Place. Safway Steel Scaffolds Company, offices at 940 Wil...
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Robert Hodgell Exhibiting his Paintings

Date: 10 05 1946
Description: Robert Overman Hodgell (left), is shown viewing some of his paintings which were done while he was serving with the navy in the South Pacific. Byron C. Jo...
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University of Wisconsin Madison Student Art Show

Date: 05 06 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison student art show winners are Gene Pizzuto, Ted Wolff, and Richard Houghton. Pizzuto is chairman of the show's sponsoring co...
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Ruth Myre

Date: 06 11 1948
Description: Mrs. Ruth Myre, watercolor artist, shown in her home painting. One of Mrs. Myre's watercolor paintings took second place at the Madison Artists' guild annu...
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Artist Byron C. Jorns with Painting

Date: 11 15 1948
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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Mrs. Celin Furu and Her Oil Painting

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her oil painting of Trolfjord, as well as Rosemaled furniture. She was a wartime resident of Berge...
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Sun Prairie Artist Rachel Grimm

Date: 12 08 1948
Description: Rachel Grimm, retired school teacher, enters the annual state-wide rural art exhibit held annually in cooperation with the Farm and Home Week program spons...

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