Architecture; Buildings; Gladiators; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sports & recreation facilities; Educational facilities; Schools; Education; Teaching; Sports; Recreation; Games; Contests; Fighting;...
“A reconstruction of the Ludus Magnus, with the Colosseum in the background. Practice stakes (pali) are shown set up at the far end of the arena. The bottom righthand corner has been cut away to show the various rooms. Steps led up from the...
Landscapes (Representations); Plains; Cities & towns; Walls; City walls; Hills; Temples; Religious facilities; Gymnasiums; Sports & recreation facilities; Streets; Roads; Islands; Bodies of water; Drawings; Landscape drawings; Illustrations
“An aerial view looking west across the Athenian plain from above Mount Lycabettus, with the island of Salamis in the background. The Sacred Way to Eleusis, which entered the city through the Sacred Gate, gave access from Athens to all parts of...
“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...
"Here Morris presented a small rectangular structure with a door shaped as a letter 'I'. When opened the door gave on to a photograph of the artist, his phallus rhyming with the "I" connotative both of the viewers looking (eye) and...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In Louis's enormous 'veils' of the 1950s the physical operations of pouring paint or tilting a canvas so that the paint floods down it are powerfully implied." (Caption, p.28); "[Clement] Greenberg's conception of 'Modernism' as...
"One of Dali's most Freudian paintings. Indeed, the elderly gentleman helping the lady in distress seems to be Freud himself, borrowed from [Max] Ernst's Pietà or Revolution by Night." (Caption); "Illumined Pleasures is one Dali's...
"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...
A large decorative iron gate between two large stone columns. There is a light fixture one top of each column. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "Ross, gateway". Presumably it is the entrance to the home of Herbert...
A large wrought iron gate is framed by two brick columns at the entrance to Tuliphurst, an historic home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky (NHRP Bldg. #89001979). Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate Matthews: "'Tuliphurst' gateway"....
A loose crowd of people walk toward the flooded intersection of Cardinal Boulevard and Brook Street. Yellow caution tape extends across the intersection and orange and white sawhorses stand in the water. Photograph was taken in the early afternoon.
A man identified in other Kate Matthews photographs as Ted plays a violin as he stands facing the camera next to the pipe organ in Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Oldham County, Kentucky. There is a music stand in front of him and a music book...
A man sits on a piano stool in the music room at Clovercroft. He is wearing a suit, and is turned away from the piano. A violin bow lies across his lap and he is looking at the violin he holds. Handwritten on album page by photographer Kate...
A side view of concrete steps leading from the terrace down to a sunlit garden path on the grounds of photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Large planters sit at the head of the steps and large trees shade...
A Steinway Grand piano in the music room of photographer Kate Matthews' home, Clovercroft. Candelabra and a small harp sit on the piano which is in front of a heavily draped window. A music book is open on the music stand. Handwritten on album page...
A stone fireplace and hearth in photographer Kate Matthews' family home, Clovercroft, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Wreaths decorate the corners of the mantle and a framed oil painting of dogs hangs on the wall above. Handwritten on album page by...
A white automobile drives through standing water going west on East Bloom Street. A person on a bicycle carrying plastic bags cycles toward the east. Yellow caution tape extends across the intersection of East Bloom Street and Brook Street....
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Rialto Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 616 S. Fourth Street (Demolished, 1969). This is the grand staircase to the promenade of the Rialto Theatre. The staircase appears to be made of marble with tile flooring. Modeled on the Capitol Theater in New York City, only the best of...
An African-American gardener rakes leaves on the grounds of Clovercroft, photographer Kate Matthews' family home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. He wears a vest, jacket, hat, and gloves, and smoke rises from the pile of leaves beside him. The house can...
Bank of St. Helens, St. Helens, Kentucky is at a sharp intersection, in a panoramic photograph on a wet day. St. Helens, Kentucky, is now known as Shively. It's located at U.S. 60 and 31 W (Dixie Highway). The town was founded by Christian William...
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
