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| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 15 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Webb Spraetz and Bruce Taylor sort watercolor paintings at Grace Episcopal Church for the Youthful Madison Artists Exhibit. |
| Date: | 08 08 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Was is crouching inside two triangular walls open on one side. In front of her are two painted signs lying on the grass and read: 'Step Here' and... |
| Date: | 09 17 1965 |
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| Description: | Prize-winning artist, Dr. A.M. Gottlieb (also Director of the Madison Veterans Administration Hospital), is shown with two paintings he created for his gra... |
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| Description: | View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Simon Sparrow posing in front of one of his artworks. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, standing in his backyard, painting a landscape depicting Little Fork River in northwest Minnesota. |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro... |
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| Description: | Dr. Carl Forsmark holding a paintbrush up to an oil painting of an elephant, which is framed and hanging on the wall. "That painting is the first oil pain... |
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| Description: | In a corner of the upstairs bedroom (Sid's house) there are a number of painting works with different sizes and themes hanging on the wall. |
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| Description: | Display for the Madison Toy Loan program, set up in the corner of an industrial building. Signs for the display read: "Madison Toy Loan takes toys, like th... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Artists working on a mural at 5th and National in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 05 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior of Aaron Bohrod's bathroom, 715 E. Gorham Street. His drawings decorate the upper walls of the room, including the mirror frame. An assortment of ... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Doris White standing outdoors. She is holding a paintbrush in her right hand. A small table is in front of her, holding brushes and... |
| Date: | 10 15 1953 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod (right) chats with Madison architect William Kaeser (left) at the preview for the Madison Art Ass... |
| Date: | 02 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Rainey Bennett from Chicago examining an entry in the Madison Art Association art show. He is squatting down between framed canvases. |
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