Address: 1127 S. Seventeenth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A brick apartment building is shown in a residential area. A small sign declares it Ruby Apartments. Another sign reads, "For Rent to colored. These modern apartments, two rooms &...
A number of automobiles and trucks are parked in front of buildings on Main Street. The building partially showing on the left is Bosler Bros. Leather & Findings. A sign in the window advertises, "Shoemakers Supplies, Shoe Machinery,...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Forging; Furnaces
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, a Mexican man wearing a sombrero, probably Jesus Tobano, sits on a plank connected to a piece of machinery; he is holding onto two ropes and his feet are resting on two spools of copper wire. In front of...
Vertical pair of signs for Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. The top sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Save Money - More Heat - Less Ash" with a picture of an eagle. The bottom sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Sterns Coal Co.-...
Long row of freight cars filled with coal curving back along the railroad tracks. More tracks and another train are to the left. Industrial equipment is in the background. Title: 6705 - A Trainload of Coal - Fresh from Pittsburgh Fields for Lake...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
“Johnson is a practitioner of a style sometimes labeled ‘abstract illusionism’, making paintings where apparently solid but abstract forms float in illusionary space. Riverfront Break may have been suggested by the industrial forms of the...
Sculpture; Allusions; Chemistry; Science; Interpersonal relations; Social science; Sociology; Utopias
"The work consisted of a triangular gauze filter stretched across a corner into which lumps of fat had been packed. Apart from alluding to physical metamorphoses brought about via osmosis, processes of refinement and purification were evoked....
"There was a lyrical quality to Hirst's use of butterflies' lifecycles, both in the 1991 installation In and Out of Love, and the related 1994-5 series of paintings, of which I Love You forms part." (Caption, p.231); "By contrast to...
