"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate...
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Sculpture; Abstract sculpture; Abstract works; Body parts; Human body; Sex; Allusions; Nature; Mushrooms; Fungi
"Whilst Bourgeois's sculptures frequently connote male and female body parts, this piece also has landscape associations. Mounds or mushrooms are evoked, as is a relationship between 'above' and 'below' ground." (Caption, p.151);...
Theaters--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
A child is considered by some psychologists to pass through on its way to manhood the stages through which the race has passed on its way to civilization. If this is true of a single man, might it not equally be true of a community of men? Have not...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
CHARLEY CURLIN being launched into the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. Packet R. DUNBAR is under construction on left. CHARLEY CURLIN, a stern-wheel pleasure boat with wood hull (88 ft. x 18 ft. x 3 ft.), was built in 1895. Owned by Seth Curlin, the...
Louisville General Hospital; University of Louisville--Buildings; Nursing students; Dormitories
Class of 1962 at Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing. Cluster of women on the steps outside Henninger Hall. Text printed on bottom of photograph: And so we find our three years of nursing education behind us and the world, we think, at...
Clay has been an integral part of my life from early childhood. The attempts of five-year-old hands to create vessels always ended up failures in my young eyes. Having had the blessings in my life to study under Richard Burns and the Master, Tom...
Flooded creek or river with water past a fence and approaching a road. Posted signs are for Pleasure Island and an arrow pointing toward Bose Island. Labeled time is 12:45 pm.
Full-length character portrait of performer Marguerite (or Marguerita) Sylva, a soprano who was born July 10, 1875, in Brussels, Belgium, and died February 21, 1957, in Glendale, California. Here, she stands before a backdrop of a stone staircase,...
Kendrick R. Lewis of Louisville, Kentucky with his mother, Mrs. Ada O. Lewis. She is looking at him as he looks forward. The photograph has been cut so only they are visible, severely cracked down the middle and background painted. Handwritten on...
Large, four-story building with a two-story front porch and balcony and a tower in the center. Surrounded by manicured lawns and trees with hills in the background. Title: Glen Park Hotel, The Tourist's Home, Ten minutes walk from Depot, convenient...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
Location: Dixie Highway, Pleasure Ridge Park. When it opened in 1911, Waverly Hills Sanatorium housed only eight patients. The design of the building is in keeping with theories of the time regarding the efficacy of a rural setting and atmosphere...
Louisville General Hospital school of nursing 1962 - Class of 1962 at Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing. Three rows of students in nurse's uniforms and caps. Students in the class of 1962 included the following: Madelyn Joyce Ash...
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
MINNESOTA, a stern-wheel pleasure boat with steel hull (115.9 ft. x 30.2 ft. x 5.2 ft.), was built in 1915 - 1916 at Howard Shipyard for the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minnesota. The famous doctors ran her primarily on the Mississippi River and...
Capitols; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); Domes; Columns
National Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The capitol building is seen from a three-quarters angle. There are a few people walking near the building. Text printed on verso reads, "This magnificent structure is on a gentle elevation in a...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Great Britain--History--16th century; Great Britain--History--17th century
Of all the arts drama is the most democratic. Other forms of artistic and aesthetic expression, literature, music, painting, may be cultivated in solitude. Not so the drama. It is demanded by the public; produced for the public and unless it is...
Port side view of WABASH, a naptha-powered pleasure boat, moored in the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. Edmonds J. Howard bought the WABASH to entertain shipyard guests.
Row of buildings along Michigan Avenue, facing Grant Park, an expanse of green grass. The buildings are identified on the card: Auditorium, Fine Arts Building, Chicago Club, Stratford Hotel, Railway Exchange Building, Art Institute. Text printed on...
