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Shorewood League Painting and Sketching Class Members

Date: 10 03 1955
Description: Ellsworth Mack and Charlotte Martin, members of the Shorewood League Painting and Sketching class, sitting outdoors in Shorewood Hills, painting an autumna...
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Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" Drawing

Date: 02 03 1947
Description: Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition.
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Artist Aaron Bohrod

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin artist, Aaron Bohrod, working in a studio with four adults looking on.
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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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Spring Fashions

Date: 02 21 1949
Description: Pattie Neilson, recent art school graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and a fashion illustrator and copy writer for a Madison women's specialty shop, ...
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Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and Conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon confer on Hagen's chorus composition "Carducciana" written for the Philharmonic Chorus of Ma...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winner

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship winner Barbara Thaller receives guidance from instructor Fritz Carpenter.
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Decorating First Apartment

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Newlyweds George and Lorna Homes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. George places his oil painting "Russian Spring" on the wall as Lorna i...
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National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 02 1951
Description: Eddie Tomlinson watches as his grandmother, Mrs. E.B. (Florence) Tomlinson make one of her famous wood engravings. Mrs. Tomalinson, who teaches art at the ...
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Your Puppet Pals

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown standing behind a set from "Your Puppet Pals" which includes 3 puppets: Professor Bookworm, Dingle the Clown, and F...
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One-Man Art Show

Date: 04 11 1956
Description: Don Eastin, Dorothy Angevine, and Louise Brown looking at a piece of artwork held by artist John Bergman that will be displayed at the Wisconsin Neurologic...
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Ruth Allcott, Art Director of Madison's public schools.
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: A group gathers for the Madison Art Guild's annual Christmas party at the home of Doris Brobst. Shown: Jean Watson, Mrs. James M. Wilkie (Cross Plains), Mr...
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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 27 1957
Description: Robert Gard, University of Wisconsin speech professor, is standing beside Elizabeth Bardwell and Harriet Bunn at an autographing tea at Graham's Book and S...
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Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Gibson Byrd (left), Ellen Colescott and Warrington Cole...
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Blackhawk Council of Girl Scouts Art Contest

Date: 04 08 1959
Description: Top winners in the "Home Frontier" art contest sponsored by the Blackhawk Council of Girl Scouts are Betsy Van Roo, left, daughter of George and Mary Greel...
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Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon

Date: 04 08 1959
Description: First prize winners at the Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon include, from left to right, Eloise Haas, Ellsworth Mack, Dorothy Angevine, and Rea Ragatz.
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Rural Arts and Crafts Show

Date: 01 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Wilbur Schoephorster shows her oil painting, "Hunter's Cabin," which was awarded one of 38 top state honors in last year's Rural Arts and Crafts Show....
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Randy Olson holds his fourth-prize winning landscape painting at the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Admiring the painting are three...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Contest judge Mrs. Daisy Breyer (left) and Central High school art teacher Mrs. Merrie Wisiol (right) admire the painting of Beverly Fries, a fifth-place w...

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