"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...
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...
Madison (Ind.)-Milton (Ky.) Bridge across the Ohio River, dedicated December 20, 1929. The river banks are covered in a light snow. Typed note on back of image: "Enclosed is a photograph of the new Madison-Milton bridge with Milton and the...
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...
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...
Address: 903 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone street with trolley tracks runs in front of a building with a sign declaring it, "9th St. Public Warehouse." Other signs indicate a number of businesses using the building,...
Standard Club at Zorn Avenue and River Road in Louisville, Kentucky. The club has several segments; each has a peaked roof. One section has canopies over the second floor windows. The large section to the right of that has a second floor balcony...
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.
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...
Address: 3005 River Road, Louisville, Kentucky. On the right, the Louisville Water Tower stands 169 feet tall. The base is surrounded by Corinthian columns and the water standpipe is enclosed within a Doric column. This architectural theme is...
Herd of cattle in an enclosed space with part of a fence to the right. Address: Bourbon Stock Yards, Main Street at southeast corner of Johnson Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
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...
General. – The Characaeae is the only extant family of an ancient and unique group of nonvascular aquatic plants which are classified as a separate division, the Charophyta (Groves and Bullock-Webster, 1920; Zaneveld, 1940; Imahori, 1954; Bold,...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
