Jean Thomas holds and examines a sculpture of an oarsman. She is standing outside her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky, wearing a polka dot dress and pearls. On her arm is an African briefcase with an inlaid pattern. The briefcase had...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of William C. Bittner of Louisville, Kentucky wearing his hair parted to the side and a polka dot tie. The photograph is discoloring from age. Handwritten on back of image: President G. Bittner Sons, 1926.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Government officials
Oval-shaped portrait of Ford Fields of Louisville, Kentucky. He is wearing dark-framed glasses and polka dot tie. The photograph is faded. Handwritten on back of image: Ford Fields, Chief Clerk of Senate; son of former Governor, William Jason...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Thomas F. Gordon of Louisville, Kentucky. He is wearing a hard collar and polka dot tie. Crop marks frame and accentuate his face; there are also small holes and tears. Stamped on back of image: Credit, Griswold Studio (Louisville);...
Portrait of Dr. Joshua B. Lukins of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a polka dot tie. The photograph has been painted on and marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: President Jefferson County Medical Association: Credit Cusick....
Portrait of John Rogers of Frankfort, Kentucky, wearing a pin-stripe suit jacket and polka dot tie. Crop marks outline his image, and the photograph is marred with discolorations and yellowing from age. Handwritten on back of image: Frankfort...
David B.G. Rose of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing dark-framed glasses and a polka dot printed tie. The photograph has been torn to an irregular size and badly discolored from age. Stamped on back of image: June 4, 1925. Typed on back: President...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Isaac F. Starks of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a sack suit and polka dot printed tie. The photograph has been badly creased, the background painted on and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: President Starks Realty...
A woman wearing a head scarf, jacket, and mid-calf-length skirt and holding a purse stands in front of a stone retaining wall. Houses dot the landscape behind her, and a structure with columns is visible on a hill in the background. Title supplied...
Jean Thomas, in polka dot dress, leans on an elegantly-dressed woman (possibly her sister), who is seated on a river bank holding a hat. Title supplied by cataloger.
Portrait of left profile of actress Billie Burke, wearing her hair in a bun, a necklace, and a short-sleeved dress. Burke, best known for playing the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the 1939 MGM movie "The Wizard of Oz," was...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Entertainers; Men
Portrait of producer and musician William H. West, known as "The Progressive Minstrel." He is seated, wearing a jacket with tails; tie; polka dot vest; and striped pants, and holding a baton and a pair of leather gloves. Born June 18,...
Leaf from a twelfth century theology book, copied at the Monastery of Citeaux in France. The book was written on animal skins since paper was not used in Europe at that time, and was intended for study or for reading aloud within the monastic...
Large framed map of Louisville leaning against a wall and supported by two chairs. Clusters of pushpins dot the map. The map reads "New Map of Greater Louisville Kentucky. The Gateway to the South. Published by Pease Engineering Co. Compiled...
View of the rooftops of buildings tightly packed together. Boats dot the water is in the background. Title: Panoramic View of Gibraltar. Most of the buildings appear to be stone with red roofs. Text on left: Published by The Atlas View Company. 147...
Aerial view of Manhattan. Rows of buildings and streets with parkland in the center. P-26295 Manhattan Island, N.Y. as Seen from an Airplane. Text on left: Keystone View Company. Copyrighted. Manufacturers Publishers. Made in U.S.A. Text on right:...
This mosaic's "border consists of two rows of solids in perspective, each with a dot on its face, and between these a rich acanthus scroll. Except in the outer left row the solids meet in the middle. The acanthus branches spring from two...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Capitalism; Glamour photographs; Sex; Seduction; Lust; Relations between the sexes; Women; Bathing beauties; People associated with entertainment & sports; Posing; Clothing & dress; Lingerie; Bathing suits;...
"In subsequent paintings by Polke, deliberately inept versions of American Pop techniques ironically signaled West Germany's 'secondary' cultural/economic status vis-à-vis America. In his Rasterbilder works he subverted [Roy] Lichtenstein's...
