Allen R. Hite Art Institute; Drawings; Paintings; Photographs; Prints
117 exhibition catalogs dating from 1947-1978. Overall, the exhibition program was robust and ambitious, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and photography as well as architecture and city planning. Works of many countries and many...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Photographs; Activists; Left-wing extremists; Terrorists; Dead persons; Death; Suicides; Social justice; Political issues; Politics & government; Protest movements; Opposition (Political science); Student movements;...
"[…] the German painter Gerhard Richter […] looked back mournfully on painting's loss of public function in his October 18, 1977 (1988), a cycle of 15 paintings which mimicked the appearances of blurred black-and-white photographs. Richter...
"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);...
"Here the artist aspires to a metamorphosis which hints partly at mythology, partly at science fiction. However, with mock pathos, Barney's floppy ears and dual kiss-curls inadequately match up to the four horns of the ram which the video's...
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; Oil paintings; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Walking; Nudes; Stairways
"Marcel Duchamp submitted [to the 1913 New York Armory Show] Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which was the most scandalous work of all. It was a humorous attack on Futurist proscriptions against traditional, Academic nudity. The image has...
A collage of a woman being photographed; a small triangular photograph in the upper left corner of the same woman in the photography studio reception room (see ULPA 1977.01.178); and a small rectangular photograph in the bottom right corner of the...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
A woman, possibly Mrs. Helen Fischer (wife of photographer Walter Fischer of Fischer Photography), and a dog are rescued by three men with a boat in Louisville, Kentucky during the 1937 Flood of the Ohio River. A service station with Gulf sign is...
A wooden jewelry or keepsake box is opened to reveal a lace-edged handkerchief; a pocket watch; a rosary; a ring; a lock of hair; newspaper clippings; and letters tied with string, along with other unidentified objects belonging to Jean Thomas....
A wooden jewelry or keepsake box is opened to reveal a lace-edged handkerchief; a pocket watch; a rosary; a ring; a lock of hair; newspaper clippings; and letters tied with string, along with other unidentified objects belonging to Jean Thomas....
Albert Neurath home at 1556 Cherokee Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Dutch Colonial stone-clapboard house. Two-story house with shutters on the windows. A gazebo is attached to the left of the house. Steps lead from the street to the front door. Stamp...
Aluminum fiber metal laminates (AFMLs) are a promising new type of fiber metal laminate that consists of aluminum foils interleaved with layers of a graphite fiber-polymer matrix composite (PMC) material. AFMLs combine the attractive features of...
An exterior view of Jean Thomas' two-story brick "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky, showing the stairs and garage. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of photography who...
An exterior view of the chimney and upstairs window of Jean Thomas' two-story brick "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of photography...
An exterior view of the side door of Jean Thomas' two-story brick "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of photography who worked with...
An exterior view of two upstairs windows at the side of Jean Thomas' two-story brick "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of...
An exterior view, from outside the picket fence, of Jean Thomas' two-story brick "Wee House in the Wood" at 3201 Cogan Street in Ashland, Kentucky. Donald R. Anderson, a University of Louisville art professor and curator of photography...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); Portrait photographs; College presidents; African Americans
Back of the photograph reads "Dr. P---ce President." Probably Dr. Charles Lee Purce, president of State University from 1894-1905. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological...
Close-up of a quilt displayed, partially folded, on the ground outside. Part of a series of photographs documenting personal belongings of Jean Thomas taken by University of Louisville Curator of Photography Donald R. Anderson in August 1968. Title...
