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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
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"Love" Couple Embracing under Mistletoe

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Description: Ink drawing of a couple standing and embracing. The woman is laughing while reaching with one hand into the man's jacket pocket. There is a small kerosene ...
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Three Naked Women with Grapes and Champagne Glass

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Description: Black-ink drawing of a bacchanalian scene with three naked women amidst three grape bunches. One is holding the stem of a champagne glass that is emitting ...
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Fish Widow

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of a woman with a basket of fish balanced on her head. Done in angular, geometric abstraction. Background of block pattern, topped with...
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"Happy Birthday Joanne"

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Description: Drawing of a smiling woman with a huge cake with candles on her head. The title reads: "Happy Birthday Joanne." Joanne was the owner of the Ohio Tavern.
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"Remember, Women are the Mothers of the Human Race"

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Description: Drawing of a woman's head with a golden crown floating above her head. The text reads: "Remember, Women are the Mothers of the Human Race."
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"Whistler's Mother"

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Description: A young man in the foreground is whistling at a woman walking by in the background. Includes the text: "Whistler's Mother." ------ A young man is raising...
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Opening Day Fishing Season (Unpublished)

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Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: a cigar-smoking fisherman holding a broken rod; a young Nancy Ryan with one leg propped on a ...
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Abstract Drawing of Woman

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Description: Abstract cubist-style drawing of a woman standing. The silhouette of a man standing on a structure is in the background.
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Everlasting Life

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Description: Drawing of a vampire wearing black-and-red cape, dancing with a naked woman with long black hair and closed eyes in a mysterious and bleak setting. There a...
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Drawing of Young Woman

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bea Walusiak Heitmeyer with short hair wearing a white blouse and flowers at her collar. Written below is: "'HI MAC'" and si...
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"How Madison Women Hold Their Likker"

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Description: Cartoon sketch of a man and woman at the bar. The man, leaning towards the woman, is smiling out of the corner of his mouth and holding a cocktail in a tum...
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Commercial Art for the Christmas

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Description: Black ink line and wash drawing of a Nativity scene in a circular composition of the Christ Child, Mary and Joseph. There is a star at the upper left. Prin...
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Drawing of a Female Torso

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Description: Female torso in black and white. Leaf pattern in a the background.
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Drawing of Nude Woman

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Description: Black line drawing with color of the backside of a nude woman with short red hair.
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Woman with the Head of a Wolf

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Description: Drawing of a woman with the head of a wolf. She is wearing a red blouse, green skirt and high heels, and the speech bubble reads: "I Always Let Men Chase M...
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"Sly Fox"

Date: 07 08 1950
Description: A woman is standing in a boat called the "Sly Fox." She is holding a fishing rod with the line attached to a man frantically trying to escape, indicated by...
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Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
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Portrait of Joann, Owner of the Ohio Tavern

Date: 1978
Description: Round portrait of Joann, owner of the Ohio Tavern. She is holding a beer can which reads: "OHO."
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Portrait of Woman on Pedestal

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Description: A women's photographic head shot has been pasted onto a line drawing depicting her as the capital of a pillar. The pillar is decorated with flowers and hea...

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