Effie (Mrs. Edward Gay) Hill of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing white pants, jacket and hat. The photograph has been cut so that only she is visible. Stamped on back of image: February 23, 1931. Handwritten on back: Mrs. Edw. G. Hill, wife of Ky....
Portrait of poet Amelia Layer of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and dangling earrings. The photograph has been painted on accentuating details and discolored from age. Stamped on back of image: credit, The Cusick Studios (Louisville).
Poet Amelia Layer of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a brimmed hat, suit, and knee-high boots. The photograph is torn in a couple of places and discolored from age. Stamped on back of image: June 15, 1923; credit, Standiford Studio (Louisville).
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Teachers; Poets; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of William Harold McCreary of Longview, Kentucky, wearing a suit and bow tie. The photograph has been painted on and marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Poet and teacher, Male High School. Stamped on back: February...
Portraits; Men; Dogs; Poets; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
David Morton, born in Elkton, Kentucky, sitting in the grass with his dog beside him, wearing a sweater vest. The photograph is discolored and fading with age. Handwritten on back of image: poet, Amherst professor; former Louisville newspaperman....
Mercedes Roseberry of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a hat and printed fur coat. The photograph has been cut to an irregular shape and painted on. Handwritten on back of image: Poet and actress. Stamped on back: November 21, 1935.
Portrait of Mercedes Roseberry of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing her hair short with finger curls. The photograph is discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Poet and actress. Stamped on back: credit, John T. Berry (Louisville...
Portrait of Mercedes Roseberry of Louisville, Kentucky. Her hair is cut in a short bob. Crop marks outline her image, and the photograph is badly creased along the top edge. Stamped on back of image: credit, John T. Berry (Louisville photographer)....
Portrait of Mercedes Roseberry of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing her hair short and wavy. Crop marks frame her face, and the photograph is discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Poet and actress. Stamped on back: December 18, 1923.
Portrait of Grace Dorcas Hutchinson Ottilie Ruthenburg of Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing her hair cut very short. The photograph has been painted on, damaged around the edges, and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Poet,...
Full-length character portrait of actor George A. Beane, standing with head bent over a book held (closed) in his right hand, and left arm supporting his lower back. He wears his hair parted in the middle; an overcoat; and dark socks over white...
Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. This original fourteenth century leaf is from a calligraphic manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz, the collected poems of the poet also known as Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz or Shamsoddin Mohammad...
"The painting anthologizes Dali's obsessions of the moment." (Caption); "As a result of Santos Torroella's dedicated researches, it is now generally accepted that the two heads in The Birth of Venus represent those of Lorca [Federico...
"The ever-present, brooding presence of Lorca [Federico García Lorca]." (Caption); "That Lorca continued to be on Dali's mind as he worked on Bacchanale is confirmed by a painting done during these months at La Pausa, The Great...
"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...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Women; Women's rights; Feminism; Feminists; Sexism; Stereotyping; Discrimination; Sex; Genitals; Body parts; Human body; Biology; History; Arts & crafts; Dinner parties; Celebrations; Parties; Guests; Dining tables;...
"Each of the ceramic plates adorning the table in this installation was individualized. In this photograph, the Georgia O'Keeffe plate on the right owed something of its original design to her Black Iris paintings of the mid-1920s. The plate...
"This painting deliberately combines a host of allusions to Spanish culture such as the stark black/white contrasts of Goya, Velasquez, and Picasso, the Spanish poet Lorca's lament to a dead bullfighter, 'Llanto por Ignacio Jánchez mejías',...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
