Installation: used sump oil, steel; "The oil uncannily mirrors the ceiling of the gallery, leaving the spectator, figuratively speaking, in mid-air. Although currently installed in the Saatchi Gallery, the work was originally located in Matt's...
Women; Costumes--United States; Fences; American Folk Song Festival
A woman sits on a bench in a yard enclosed by a brick fence, wearing a long white dress with ruffles, a plaid bodice and hem, and the skirt spread out. She hails from Prestonsburg (Floyd County), Kentucky, but is likely photographed in Boyd County...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Universities & colleges; University of Kentucky--Buildings
Basketball Gymnasium, 1924. Wide brick building with high domed windows. White band above windows. Two entrance doors with white-pillared roofs also enclosed by high, square brick pillars eventually ending in triangular pediments.
Exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Enclosed by an open, pillared wall, a sign over one segment reads, "Coffee Exportation, annual mean for the years 1899-1903 in bags of 60 kilograms; every bag represents 50000 bags; Brazil...
Apartment houses; Porches; Fences; Street railroad tracks; Buildings
Address: 429 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. This apartment building has a sign on its canopy announcing, "Chesterfield." Several Corinthian columns support the stone canopy and two pediments emphasize the Greek Revival influence of...
Address: 226 E. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A four-story brick building is shown. The building is not symmetrical, but does include a covered porch, a large bay window on the third floor, skylights and decorative brick work. The...
Portrait of white-haired actor/producer E. S. (Edward Smith) Willard wearing a tuxedo with white necktie. led the Edward Smith Willard Repertory in the early years of the 20th century. Born in England in 1853, Willard led the Edward Smith Willard...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
Five men pose on a flatboat loaded with barrels. Four of the men wield poles used as oars. The boat includes an enclosed area resembling a small house or shed. Another figure is visible on the riverbank in the background. Title supplied by...
"In her consistent use of grids Agnes Martin participated in a tradition in twentieth-century art stretching from the Cubists and Mondrian to her Minimalist contemporaries. The grid was a non-hierarchical and non-referential structure. It...
Buildings; Factories; Industrial facilities; People; Men; Automobiles; Transportation; Ford Motor Company
Men work on the frames of cars which are set on a long, straight track. Behind the men are bins of materials and some tools. Most of the men wear caps and aprons or overalls. Windows let in light from behind and above the line. On the other side of...
Seven cows of various size and a small calf stand in a row (one cow faces backwards) on a field enclosed by a split rail fence topped with barbed wire. G. N. McGrew was a farmer and stock raiser and served nine years on the State Board of...
National parks & reserves; Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels; Dining rooms
Hotel main dining room, Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. Exterior of "Hotel Lobby Main Dining Room", a white wood building with a large enclosed porch, darkened windows, flower boxes, and potted flowers.
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
People crouched at low tables with food and baskets or pails. They are below a grass roof held up with beams and enclosed by a low wall. Title: Javanese Tiffin House. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company 147 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. Text...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with the words...
Buildings; Banks; Liberty Insurance Bank (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 207-209 W. Market Street. The interior of Liberty Bank had waist-high white marble counters. A row of benches and writing tables runs between two rows of enclosed teller counters. At the far end of the room is a gated vault with an ornate...
