"Such barely recognizable human images were the outcome of a dialogue with materials. Layers of thick paste were applied to an absorbent sheet of rag paper laid on a canvas, with a layer of colored paste and varnish finally added to the...
Buildings; Dwellings; Houses; Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864; State parks & reserves; Historic buildings
On back of image: "My Old Kentucky Home, Federal Hill." Entrance hall of Federal Hill, the Bardstown, Kentucky, estate of the Rowan family, whose cousin, Stephen Foster, composed "My Old Kentucky Home." Federal Hill Mansion, on...
"Picasso did forty-five studies for Guernica. The one illustrated here shows the dying horse and the mother with the dead child. They have been changed in the final painting, although they retain their basic character. The Cubist neck of the...
Four people in front of a log cabin with shingled roof and stone chimney. An elderly man sits in a chair with two children standing on either side of him and two children sitting at his feet. A large cluster of trees is visible behind the cabin....
Portrait of Bessie Sanson. She wears her hair atop her head, a cross around her neck, and a shirred white dress. Sanson appeared at Macauley's Theatre in "A Rag Baby" in February 1887 and "Little Puck" in September 1890 and...
Balkan woman, wearing a hijab or Islamic veil, sits on the ground, leaning against a brick wall, with an infant sitting next to her. The child, dressed in white, appears to be chewing on something that may be a rag doll. Taken during World War I.
Jean Thomas poses at her typewriter, with three of her publications ["The Singin' Fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," "Devil's Ditties," and "The Traipsin' Woman"] displayed on the table. The room appears to be a rustic...
