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Professor Roland S. Stebbins

Date: 02 28 1944
Description: Professor Roland S. Stebbins wins Madison Art Award. His award winning painting is titled, "Our Kitchen." The work placed first in the Madison Artists Exhi...
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Professor Roland S. Stebbins with Painting

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Portrait of University of Wisconsin Art Education professor Roland S. Stebbins with one of his paintings, which he donated to the Madison Art Association f...
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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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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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Supreme Court Justice Portrait

Date: 04 27 1950
Description: Noted Chicago artist Christian Abrahamson holds a palette and paintbrushes as he stands next to a portrait of the retired chief justice of the Wisconsin Su...
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Madison Art Association

Date: 10 01 1950
Description: Artist Francis Chapin is shown standing beside his oil painting "House of Dogs, Mexico" which the Madison Art Association displayed at the Madison Free Lib...
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Madison City School Art Show

Date: 05 25 1952
Description: The two award winners in the "Salon of School Art" show. On the left is the high school winner, William Bunce, a student at West high school. On the right ...
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Happy Holidays From Chappell's Ad Dept.

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b...
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Aaron Bohrod with Wallpaper

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Description: Aaron Bohrod posing with wallpaper he designed using State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum objects as subject matter.
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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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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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The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
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Carl Wetterburg

Date: 01 1991
Description: Carl Wetterberg, cartoonist, drew a cartoon for Ralph Widmer when he and his wife Helen were in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Warrington Colescott's Studio Open House

Date: 10 14 1954
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...
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Governor Warren Knowles and Georgia O'Keeffe

Date: 1966
Description: Governor Warren Knowles and Artist Georgia O'Keeffe at the presentation of the Wisconsin Governor's Award for Creativity in the Arts.
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VA Director Dr. A.M. Gottlieb's Art Work

Date: 09 17 1965
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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Madison Art Association Exhibit

Date: 10 15 1953
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...
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Judging Madison Art Exhibit Entries

Date: 02 12 1954
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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Judging Madison Art Exhibit Entries

Date: 02 12 1954
Description: Rainey Bennett from Chicago ponders the decision of the best art work as a judge at the Madison Art Association art show.
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John A. Glander, Early Photography Career

Date: 1920
Description: Seated portrait of John A. Glander, 33 years of age, in the office of the Glander Art Studio at 822 Washington Street. In the background, pictures are disp...

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