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| Description: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vinnie Ream posing in her studio in Washington, beside her bust of Lincoln which had been brought from the White House after the assassination. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 12 12 1933 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin student sculpting a statue. He is surrounded by small sculptures in the old student Union building. |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Sam Bonano, 17, 713 Milton Street, modelling clay into images of the Nativity at Madison Vocational School. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An artist sculpts a bust from photographs of Margaret McGuire, the first Alice in Dairyland, most likely to be displayed at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposi... |
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| Description: | "Genius of Wisconsin" statue, originally sculpted by Helen Mears for the Columbian Exposition of 1893. It was later recreated in marble by the Piccirilli B... |
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| Description: | "The West" statue at the first floor southwest entrance the Wisconsin State Capitol. Vinnie Ream Hoxie modeled this statue in 1866-1868. It was carved in R... |
| Date: | 02 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Three award winners at the Madison Artists Exhibition. From left are Arthur Anderson of Stoughton, watercolor; Mrs. Martha Lauritzen of Madison, ceramics; ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Dorothea Schon, Sun Prairie artist, at work in her studio on her sculpture of Christ the King. When it is completed, the four and a half by three foot wood... |
| Date: | 05 13 1968 |
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| Description: | Thurman Butler, 16, with the sculpture he made while practicing cutting and welding techniques in a foundry course at Milwaukee Technical college. He calle... |
| Date: | 12 09 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Artist and sculptor Chester Mayer shown with a bust of President Lincoln, which had been created by Chester's uncle, Louis Mayer. Chester is working on a l... |
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| Description: | Robert Overman Hodgell, wearing a paisley shirt and eyeglasses, contemplating two wooden sculptures. The sculpture on the left is a headless, armless naked... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An artist posing with a large statue that was used in the film "Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ." The artist is standing on the top step of a wooden staircase a... |
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| Description: | One can see from the image how prisoners are allowed to pursue their own interests. |
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| Description: | A French prisoner, who is a sculptor, who has been given a private studio space to work on his art. |
| Date: | 01 13 1959 |
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| Description: | A man is leaning over a large sculpture of a woman and carving it. He is wearing a beret, a scarf, and a workshirt. Several other sculptures — all apparent... |
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