John W. Barr was born in Versailles, Kentucky, in 1826. He prepared for the bar at Transylvania University at Lexington, graduating in 1847. He started a law office in Versailles, but later relocated to Louisville where he soon established a...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
David Bowling Redwine was born in Magoffin County, Kentucky, in 1855. He read law and was licensed to practice law and established a practice Jackson, Kentucky. He entered public life as a representative of the Breathitt County area in the...
John Franklin Hager was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1853. His family moved to Ashland, Kentucky, in 1864, and he was educated in the public schools and at Ashlands Beech Grove Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and...
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Robert Cumming Schenck (1809-1890), who was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers in the Union Army of the United States Civil War. He was promoted to major general in 1862. Postwar he was elected to the 38th Congress and served...
Governors; Government officials; Group portraits; Family; Houses; Dwellings; Swimming pools; Bathing suits; Summer
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler with wife Mildred Watkins Chandler and children Mimi, Ben, and Dan beside pool at rear of their home in Versailles, Kentucky. Happy Chandler was governor of Kentucky two separate terms, from 1935 to1939 and...
Oscar Sales, The Credit Jeweler storefront, Louisville, Kentucky, displaying pieces of jewelry and advertising credit terms. Handwritten on back of print: "612 South 4th Street." Title supplied by cataloger.
Taxicab with circular ad over spare tire reading "Kelvinator / Beautiful new 1935 models now shown at Central Furniture Company / No Down Payment Terms as low as 15 cents a day." Title supplied by cataloger.
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...
Girl with bow in her ponytail runs from a lit firecracker. It's face has a menacing look. A lantern on the front reads "July 4th." Verse printed on front reads, "The giant cracker is a big red brute / With a tail that's like a snake...
“Here, the artist blends elements of color into shapes and forms to explore salvation and the terms under which his winged and hooded figure, manipulating a marionette whose actions are predicated under the guise of Christianity, delivers it. His...
"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
"This is the painting Dali took to show Freud in London. It belonged formerly to Edward James." (Caption); "At Zürs […] Dali embarked on a new experiment: the composition, in French, of a 'paranoaic' poem, The Myth of Narcissus,...
Sculpture; Allusions; Chemistry; Science; Interpersonal relations; Social science; Sociology; Utopias
"The work consisted of a triangular gauze filter stretched across a corner into which lumps of fat had been packed. Apart from alluding to physical metamorphoses brought about via osmosis, processes of refinement and purification were evoked....
"Rachel Whiteread's House revived a taste for outrage previously brought to the fore in Britain by the Tate Bricks saga. Before its completion in October 1993 it had attracted little press interest. In November of that year, however, a...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Abstract sculpture; Abstract works
"In formal terms, this sculpture manages to harmonize the claims of an aspiring, organic element within and the protective, enveloping characteristics of an outer casing. This is achieved via Moore's signature 'holes'. (Caption, p.68);...
"Alongside his own production of visual poetry, which took the form of silkscreen prints as well as inscribed objects, Finlay was significant for his involvement in the 'small press' publishing activities associated with the alternative poetry...
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...
"Bojewyan is a small village near St. Just in Cornwall, England. At the time of the painting local farmsteads were falling empty because they were uneconomic. Lanyon saw this as a serious threat to the region. His painting contains hints of a...
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...
