Football; Football players; University of Louisville--Football; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Students; College athletes; Students
A player is tackled near the end zone as men on the sidelines look on. University of Louisville Cardinals play the Evansville Aces at Evansville. The final score was U of L 6, Evansville 18.
College trustees; University of Louisville--Presidents; College presidents; Mayors;
University of Louisville trustee Miss Adele Brandeis shakes hands with Mayor Charles P. Farnsley as U of L president John W. Taylor (far left) and trustee Edward J. Miller look on and smile.
Today show (Television program); Broadcasting; Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Orchestras; University of Louisville--Buildings; Buildings;
A cameraman films an orchestra (perhaps the University orchestra) assembled under a tree outside the Administration Building (Grawemeyer Hall). They probably performed music for the "Today" television show, with host Dave Garroway, which...
Track athletics; Coaches (Athletics); University of Louisville--Track athletics; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Students; Jumping; College athletes;
Track coach Dave Lawrence (wearing cap) watches one of his athletes jump the high bar. Several other men look on; others stand in the background. Some of the students wear shirts with "W's" on them.
Track athletics; University of Louisville--Track athletics; University of Louisville--Sports; University of Louisville--Students; Students; Runners (Sports); Running; Running races; College athletes;
Three runners race down the track while men and women look on from the sidelines. It appears they are crossing the finish line. The track was located at the southeast corner of Belknap Campus where the Natural Sciences Building and the Miller...
Basketball players; University of Louisville--Basketball; University of Louisville--Students; University of Louisville--Sports; Airplanes; College athletes;
Members of the University of Louisville basketball team walking out of an American Airlines plane and down the exit stairs. The team was returning following its defeat (93-80) of University of Dayton to win the 1956 National Invitation Tournament...
Parades & processions; University of Louisville--Students
Four young women wave from the back of a convertible during the University of Louisville's homecoming parade on Broadway. Other cars travel in the opposite lane and people look on from the sidewalk on the other side of the street.
Pencil drawing; "This drawing, which at nearly three feet in height is very large for Giacometti, is one of an enormous number that he produced throughout his life. His sculptures and paintings of the figure, similarly attenuated, are far...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
“In various letters and diary notes the artist has explained how the preoccupation with ethnological problems, with the symbolism of colors, and certain literary concepts participated in the genesis of this canvas: ‘I painted the nude of a...
Photogravures; Prints; Photographs; Cityscape photographs; Cities & towns; Cityscapes; City & town life; Roads; Streets; Winter; Snow; Carriages & coaches; Vehicles; Horses; Animals; Architecture; Buildings; Gates; Trees
"In his own art […] Stieglitz had moved quite sharply away from the pictorialism of his early work toward ever-more 'straight' photography - that is, toward photographs that look like photographs, free of lens or darkroom manipulations...
Paintings; Abstract works; Abstract paintings; Portrait paintings; Portraits; Heads (Anatomy); Faces; Men; Politicians; Government officials; People associated with politics & government; Activists; Revolutionaries; Beards
"Look closely at the image […]. It appears to be an icon of postwar experimental art - an early 1950s abstraction by the American painter Jackson Pollock. However, read the caption and it is revealed to be a pastiche by Art & Language, a...
"Action behind the sheet, in the presence of the ubiquitous lion. Dali said the painting referred to his and Gala's repudiation by his father. There are allusions to Gala's operation, which Dali feared might be fatal." (Caption);...
"Gala-Leda rendered 'in accordance with the modern "nothing touches" theory of intra-atomic physica' (Dali)." (Caption); Dali himself was only too happy to admit his debt to Gala. In the early 1930s he had begun to sign his...
One of six suites of nine photographs. "The Bechers' photographs of industrial structures, which they began in 1959, belong to the genres of documentary photography, sculpture, and industrial archaeology simultaneously, as well as having...
Sculpture; Effigies; Portraits; Men; Philosophers; People associated with education & communication; Clothing & dress; Beards; Mustaches
"This effigy of the august man of letters was inspired by portraits of Greek philosophers from the fourth and third centuries B.C., but it remains true to the art of the Antonine portrait in its attempts to convey sensitivity and...
"As an African-American who is able to pass as 'white', Piper has written eloquently of the social and institutional prejudices that surface when she divulges her racially mixed identity. In a text entitled 'Flying' of 1987 she wrote: 'I am...
Sculpture; Stelae; Portraits; Group portraits; Men; Kings; Rulers; Women; Queens; People associated with politics & government; Couples; Spouses; Fathers; Mothers; Families; Family; Children; Girls; Clothing & dress; Headgear; Headdresses;...
From Tell el-Armana, Egypt. "A sunken relief stele, perhaps from a private shrine, provides a rare look at this royal family. The style is familiar from the colossus of Akhenaton [from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII, ca....
