A tree-lined drive leads to Locust, a country estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Two small stone pillars stand at the entrance, each connected to a white rail fence. Main sections of the house are believed to have been built around 1800, making it...
Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky.: Estate); Dwellings; Houses; Mansions; Porches; Buildings
Address: 561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. This Georgian style home was built by William and Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790 on the property known as Locust Grove. The building is brick with multiple chimneys and shuttered windows. The...
Weeds and tall grass line a grassy path between gnarled trunks of old locust trees in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "Locust pathway". Inscriptions in the album, which Kate Matthews gave...
"To the right of the photograph [referring to the photograph in Dali's painting The First Days of Spring, 1929] we find the first appearance of an icon soon to proliferate in Dali's work: a waxy-complexioned head with closed eyes, long...
Automobile service stations; Signs (Notices); Cobblestone streets; Buildings
The Gulf Refining Company service station at Locust and Court in Jeffersonville shows gas pumps under a sign reading, "That Good Gulf Gasoline." A number of street lamps with round white globes appear on the property. A brick building is...
Locust, an actual estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky was the fictional home of both the Old Colonel and the title character in the Little Colonel book series written by Annie Fellows Johnston. Main sections of the house are believed to have been...
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Flowering shrubs line the walkway leading to Hattie Cochran's home on Maple Avenue in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Hattie was the real-life model for the character Lloyd Sherman in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows Johnson. This house is...
Long, straight, tree-lined driveway to an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The estate was most likely Locust, an actual place in Pewee Valley, Kentucky that was the fictional home of both the Old Colonel and the title character in the Little...
Men; Historic buildings; Porches; Military officers; War casualties; People with disabilities
Colonel George Washington Weissinger, Jr., real-life model for the character Colonel Sherman in the Little Colonel books written by Annie Fellows Johnston, sits on the porch of The Locust in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The house, which is on the...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Symbols; Lust; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Human body; Body parts; Women; Men; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Clothing & dress; Footwear; Shoes; Keys (Hardware); Fireworks; Firecrackers; Explosives;...
"The dedication reads 'Painted for Paul Éluard by his friend Salvador Dalí'. Éluard, who enjoyed his erotica as much as Dali, must have been impressed by this tour de force." (Caption); "One of his earliest ventures was Board of...
"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate...
"The Child-Woman is Gala, who appears here for the first time in Dali's work." (Caption); "Meanwhile, Dali had painted the first major work in which he alluded directly to the relationship with Gala that was partially to blame for...
"Although resident in America, Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984. Funded by the 'Patrons of New Art' affiliated to London's Tate Gallery, this prize was subsequently awarded annually for 'outstanding contributions' to...
