Architecture; Buildings; Gladiators; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sports & recreation facilities; Educational facilities; Schools; Education; Teaching; Sports; Recreation; Games; Contests; Fighting;...
“A reconstruction of the Ludus Magnus, with the Colosseum in the background. Practice stakes (pali) are shown set up at the far end of the arena. The bottom righthand corner has been cut away to show the various rooms. Steps led up from the...
“A section through the Propylaea, showing the northern half. The Pinakotheke is on the left. The gateway was approached by a broad ramp which was probably stepped. Visitors passed through a temple-like entrance composed of six Doric columns....
Streets; Railroad tracks; Railroad crossings; Buildings; Stores & shops; Children
4701 Louisville Avenue at Pocahontas Avenue, now an extension of Woodlawn Avenue. The W.F. Lippold market is at the corner. A boy stands at the door while another one sits on the front steps. Across from Louisville Avenue is a set of railroad...
"[…] Vija Celmins uses nature as a starting point. In her re-creations of the heavens and earth, Celmins prods the viewer into an expanded awareness of both her sources and the process of artistic vision. […] In 1968 Celmins's preferred...
Performance art; Video recording; Film stills; Men; Artists; Backs (Anatomy); Dance; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Geometry
"Carried out for the camera alone, Nauman's performances of the late 1960s often dealt with the artist's confinement in his studio. This was ironic given that elsewhere art was shrugging off its traditional solipsism and taking to the streets....
"One of Dali's finest paintings from the 1940s." (Caption); "My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, on the other hand, was one of the finest, and most...
"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...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
"The progression of drawings here shows the steps used by Benin sculptors." Elements included: clay core; wax; tool; wax rods (drains) and wax cup; layer of fine sand; layer of clay; molten metal; draining wax; finished cast. (Stokstad,...
A bearded man, wearing a hat and jacket, sits on the steps outside a door with a sign reading "General Waiting Room." He is probably at, or near, the train station in London.
Men; Women; Signs (Notices); Log cabins; American Folk Song Festival
A copy photograph of the page of an album containing a photograph of Jean Thomas (front, in tam) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified man on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo...
A crowd, many holding umbrellas, stand on or near the steps to a white building, probably the United States Government Building, which has pediments, columns, two United States flags at the entrance, and more flags on top of the roof. Title...
Churches; Presbyterian churches; Bell towers; Trees
A few steps lead to the main door of Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church in Pewee Valley. The bell tower above the door is framed by large trees. Photographer Kate Matthews' signature is on the lower right corner of mount. Title supplied by cataloger.
A group of men in suits stand in two rows on the steps in front of the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. Address: 2600 Virginia Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.
A group of men stand in three rows on the steps outside a brick building for Louisville Textile Company. A sign by the door points to the main office on McHenry between Goss and Ash.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Synagogues; Confirmation (Jewish rite); Teenagers
A group of teenage girls and boys paired off stand in a V-formation on the steps outside the Keneseth Israel Temple with a man and woman standing at the point of the V.
