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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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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 19 1944
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...
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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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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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Madison Artists Exhibition Award Winners

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: Three award winners at the Madison Artists Exhibition. From left are Arthur Anderson of Stoughton, watercolor; Mrs. Martha Lauritzen of Madison, ceramics; ...
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Madison Artists Exhibition Award Winners

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: Four award recipients from the University of Wisconsin at the Madison Artists exhibition. From left are Donald M. Anderson, art education instructor, water...
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Madison Artists Exhibition Award Winners

Date: 02 06 1949
Description: The top prize winners at the Madison Artists Exhibition. From left are Professor Alfred Sessler, University of Wisconsin art education, for two small oil p...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: In front of Gainsborough's painting, "Miss Sparrow," are Professor and Mrs. Jack Klenitz, 208, Highland Avenue and, on the right, Professor Julian Harris, ...
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Gimbel Brothers Art Competition

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Madison and University of Wisconsin artists carried off the major share of the prizes and awards in the 1949 Gimbel Brothers art competition. Seated, left...
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Madison Artists' Exhibition Winners

Date: 02 12 1950
Description: Richard Grossenbach, University of Wisconsin senior student from Madison, and Professors Robert Grilley and Roland Stebbins, University of Wisconsin, were ...
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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Three junior high school students, recipients of a 1949 summer scholarship, pose with their teacher near an exhibit of the students' watercolor sketches. S...
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16th Annual Wisconsin Salon of Art

Date: 11 06 1950
Description: The Madison Art Association's 16th Annual Wisconsin Salon of Art opened at the Memorial Union with a traditional preview reception. Some of the members who...
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16th Annual Wisconsin Salon of Art

Date: 11 06 1950
Description: The Madison Art Association's 16th Annual Wisconsin Salon of Art opened at the Memorial Union with a traditional preview reception. Mrs. Raymond J. (Doroth...
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Winners of Annual Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 26 1954
Description: Group portrait of the winners of the annual Madison Woman's club Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. Pictured left to right: Margaret N. Evans, 2317 Sommer...
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Madison Art Association Invitational Exhibition

Date: 10 07 1959
Description: Among those viewing the works of Illinois and Iowa artists are, (left to right): Sally Marshall, president of the Madison Art Association; Clayton Howdle; ...
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Madison Art Association Invitational Exhibition

Date: 10 07 1959
Description: Blanche Nesbit, Dr. Mark Nesbit, and Dorothy Guild posing in front of a large painting during the Madison Art Association Invitational Exhibition.
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Salon of School Art

Date: 05 18 1961
Description: Four teachers examine a sculpture along with the art work of 750 children and teens from Madison's 38 public schools. The 30th annual Salon of School Art w...
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We Saw You at the Art Exhibit

Date: 11 13 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Art Association attending the current exhibit at Scanlan Hall of the Vocational School. Left to right: Joanne and Warren Hedlin, an...
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We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: At the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Library are, left to right, Kishio Matoba, art teacher at Central High School and m...
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We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Iwao Hara (left), Margaret Schorger, and Mae Hara attend the opening of an exhibit of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Library.

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