Restaurants; Construction; Construction equipment; J.B. Speed Art Museum;
The Loop Hole Restaurant, next to a construction area with construction equipment and mounds of dirt. The construction vehicles and equipment are for the construction of the Satterwhite Wing of the Speed Museum. Once a popular meeting place for...
A man wearing a gas mask holds a clipboard steady for another man signing what is probably some kind of petition. The photograph was taken during a three day Environmental Teach-In sponsored by the University of Louisville on April 9, 10 and 11,...
Environmental education; Couples; Population control;
A man and woman look at information on a table that advocates a two-child only policy as a means of population control. A group of people can be seen sitting on the ground behind them. A poster on the table says, "The two child family means...
Several people look over information tables and posters that appear to describe various kinds of pollution. A map titled "OPEN YOUR EYES" leans against one of the tables. A mannequin wearing a surgical mask stands in the foreground...
A man wearing a baseball jacket and glasses and standing at the edge of a playground holds a sign that says, "HOW LONG CAN WE CARRY ON." Young women sit on swings in the background. He presumably was participating in a demonstration march...
Demonstrators (apparently all male) carrying handmade picket signs walk across campus past Brigman Hall in a march that kicked off a three day environmental teach-in sponsored by the University of Louisville on April 9, 10 and 11, 1970. Other...
Four men in suits and ties watch the demonstration march that kicked off a three day Environmental Teach-In sponsored by the University of Louisville on April 9, 10 and 11, 1970. A protest sign reading"give earth a chance" is visible in...
University of Louisville--Students; University of Louisville--Buildings; Fraternities & sororities;
Members of University of Louisville's Delta Zeta chapter stand on the steps of the original sorority house at 2028 South First Street. They are waving to a smaller group of women who stand in the foreground, and who are also waving. In 1973 the...
"This great painting was later renamed, with fitting opportunism, The Premonition of Civil War." (Caption); "The events of October 1934, and his scare in Barcelona, seem to have convinced Dali that civil war was a real possibility in...
"With its somewhat distant-looking quality and distinctive crown of olive leaves, this statue is most likely a memorial portrait. Although the head and body originally came from two separate statues, they are chronologically consistent. The...
"Marc, unlike Kandinsky, was predominantly a painter of imagery derived from the material world. But in a group of small compositions from 1914 and in sketches that he made in the notebook he carried, there was evidence of a move to...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Architecture; Buildings; Asylums; Mental institutions; Health & hygiene facilities; Health care facilities; Hospitals; Facades; Walls; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Windows; Shutters; Gardens; Parks;...
"The classical facade of the men's wing, depicted with yellow walls and green shutters [...] forms a low horizontal background. Diminuitive figures of men and women stroll through an unkempt park. But the real movement - indeed, the intense...
"Meta Warrick Fuller's work, which incorporated African and Egyptian themes, expressed a variety of emotions in its examination of African American life and times [...]." (p.39)
Drawings; Graphite drawings; Pencil works; Seascape drawings; Seascapes; Seas; Oceans; Water; Bodies of water
"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early...
"This is the painting Dali took to show Freud in London. It belonged formerly to Edward James." (Caption); "At Zürs […] Dali embarked on a new experiment: the composition, in French, of a 'paranoaic' poem, The Myth of Narcissus,...
Installation of three costumes of wax-print cotton textiles tailored by Sian Lewis; "This work by Shonibare consists of three clothed mannequins standing on a low platform. Their stiff postures and high Victorian dresses, complete with...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Fantasy; Allusions; Symbols; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust; Gays; Martyrs; Saints; People associated with religion; Sailors; Men; Women; Bathing beauties; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Muscles; Standing;...
"One of Dali's greatest paintings from the mid-1920s, not exhibited since 1927. The influence of Picasso is manifest. It develops the theme of Saint Sebastian that so fascinated Lorca [Federico García Lorca] and Dali." (Caption);...
"Dali prided himself on being the world's greatest ever painter of the female posterior." (Caption); "It was probably early in 1950 that Emmanuel Looten, a little-known Flemish poet, had made Dali the unexpected and 'gelatinous' gift...
"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...
"The face of the artist in this painting is that of music critic and friend Howard Klein." (excerpt from: Lopate, Phillip, et al. John Koch: Painting a New York Life. New York: Historical Society; London: Scala, 2001, p.79)
