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Collection: Boyle County Public Library Artifacts

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Giraffes in Hot Air Balloon

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Photomechanical print of two giraffes in a hot air balloon.

Tags: balloons, birds, ferns, flags, France, giraffes, greenery, hot air balloons, palms, parrots

Horses

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a four member stretcher. Three brown horses and a foal standing in a field by a stream with a stone fence and trees behind.

Tags: fields, foals, horses, oil paintings, paintings, stone fences, streams, trees

The Venus de' Medici

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Bronze sculpture, copy of The Venus de' Medici. A nude Venus with two putti riding a dolphin.

Tags: Aphrodite, bronze, dolphins, goddess, Grecian, Greece, Greeks, Hellenistic, putti, sculptures, Venus, Venus de' Medici

Flowers and Two Birds

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A cast of two birds and flowers, painted with a brownish/red patina, made from expanding polyurethane foam filler

Tags: birds, casts, flowers, polyurethane

Black and Green Bowl

Green and black glass bowl type sculpture.

Tags: bowls, glass, shell

English Wrought-Iron Gates

Two English wrought-iron gates. Originally installed at the entrance of a Queen Anne style country manor north of London.

Tags: England, English, gates, iron, wrought-iron

Madonna

Oil on canvas on wood of Madonna icon.

Tags: Madonna, oil paintings, religious icon

Audubon Museum Front

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A plaster replica of the Audubon Museum located in Henderson County, KY.

Tags: Audubon, buildings, museums, replicas, WPA

Goethe

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Plaster sculpture of Goethe. He is standing, leaning against a tree stump with a scroll in his proper left hand and what appears to be a cloth (broken) in his proper right hand.

Tags: German, Goethe, literature, marble, novelists, plays, poetry, poets, sculptures, theater

Man Riding Horse

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Tags: ceramics, horses, men

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

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Two, small wooden sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. They are attached to a granite base with screws.

Tags: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, statues

Totem Pole

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Painted, polychrome wooden totem pole with four figures. From top down: human, hawk, beaver, octopus.

Tags: beaver, hawk, human, octopus, totem poles, totems, wood

Indo-Bidjar Oriental Rug

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Indo-Bidjar Oriental Rug. Made of woven wool with cotton fringe at two ends.

Tags: oriental, oriental rugs, rugs, wool, woven

Marco Aurelio

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Bronze sculpture replica of Marco Aurelio mounted on a horse (original in Rome, Italy), on a red stone base.

Tags: Emperor, Marco Aurelio, Rome

Senator John J. Crittenden Portrait

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Small watercolor, oval portrait of Sen. John J. Crittenden on Ivory

Tags: ivory, John Crittenden, portraits, watercolors

Chinese Export Plate

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Decorative Chinese plate with floral motif, gold filigree work and dragon and bird.

Tags: birds, China, dragons, flowers, plates

Oval Portrait of Woman - Jenny Lind

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Copy of a portrait of Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind - Swedish Opera singer

Tags: Jenny Lind, Johanna Maria Lind, opera, portraits, singer, Swedish, Swedish Nightingale

John Ruskin

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A terra cotta bust of John Ruskin. Modeled by G. Atkinson and produced by Jabez Thompson.

Tags: busts, John Ruskin, terra cotta

Hollyhocks and Hummingbird

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Acrylic on paper of flowers and a humming bird

Tags: acrylic paintings, flowers, hollyhocks, hummingbirds, plants

Woodpecker

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Carved wooden Black and White Woodpecker with Red spot on top of head. Bird is standing on a piece of wood.

Tags: birds, carvings, wood, woodpecker

Cast ceramic, plaque of a horse

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Cast ceramic plaque of a horse.

Tags: ceramics, horses, plaques

Gettysburg Lincoln

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Bronze head of Abraham Lincoln with gold patina, mounted onto an acrylic base.

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, bronze, busts, Lincoln, sculptures

Albert Enstein - Bronze

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Bronze head of Albert Einstein mounted onto a square, dark wooden base. The original was modeled from life and completed in 1953. This is a cast.

Tags: Albert Einstein, bronze, busts, Einstein

Winchester Cathedral: Jane Austen's Grave

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Jane Austen is known as one of the greatest novelists, but when she was buried in the Cathedral in 1817 at the age of 41, her original memorial stone made no mention of her books. You can read the brass plaque erected in 1872 to redress the omission…

Tags: cathedrals, graves, Jane Austen

Penn's Store

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Tags: Gravel Switch, Gravel Switch Kentucky, historic, Marion County, Marion County Kentucky, Penn's Store, stores

The Sun Shines Bright on My Old Kentucky Home

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Mixed media artwork, a black horse with Kentucky in the background

Tags: birds, bourbon, capital, cardinals, Confederate, dogwood, horses, Kentucky, Lincoln, mixed media, music, state, trees, Union

Passages

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Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Danville, doors, posters, prints

Cascade of Knowledge

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Mixed media collage, incorporating: parts of books, leaves, stamps and other items of ephemera.

Tags: basketballs, books, dogs, leaves, Lincoln, maps, mixed media, stamps, statues, trumplets, Van Gogh, violins

Anhanguera Blittersdorff

Cast of the bones of a pteradactyloid pterosaur from the Lower-Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil in the Amazonian basin. Anahanguera means "old devil"

Tags: Brazil, Cretaceous, dinosaurs, Pterodactyls, Pterosaur

Path Through the Trees

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a four member stretcher, without keys, of a path and trees.

Tags: oil paintings, paintings, trees

River Road

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Oil painting on four member stretcher of road by the river in winter. (between Mt. Vernon & Livingston)

Tags: mountains, oil paintings, paintings, rivers, trees

Whimsey in Weisiger

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a five member stretcher, without keys, of the fountain and Advocate Brass Band in front of the Danville Courthouse.

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, brass bands, Courthouses, Danville, Danville Courthouse, fountains, Weisiger Park

The Woodlands: Birches in Autumn Woods

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Oil on canvas stretched onto a six member strainer of birch trees.

Tags: birches, oil paintings, trees, woods

UK Tobacco Cutting Contestants

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Colored Pencil Drawing on wove paper of two men in a tobacco field.

Tags: colored pencils, farms, fields, men, tobacco, UK, University of Kentucky

Saber Tooth Tiger

Bronze cast from a fossil skull of a sabre tooth tiger sitting on a bronze and marble base. Work has a dark patina.

Tags: prehistoric, prehistoric mammals, Saber-tooth tigers, sculpture, Smilodon, tigers

Rose Breasted Grosbeak

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Photo-Mechanical print on wove paper of Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

Tags: birds, grosbeak, roses

Rotunda

Photographic print on paper of the exterior Rotunda of the Boyle County Public Library in Danville, KY

Tags: BCPL, Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Boyle County Public Library, exteriors, rotundas

Young-Rodes Library

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Computer manipulated photograph of 3rd Street entrance to the Young Rodes Library

Tags: BCPL, Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Public Library

Portrait of John Jordan Crittenden

Oil portrait of John Jordan Crittenden, seated, from the waist up.

Tags: Crittenden, oil paintings, portraits

White Crowned Sparrow and Multi-flora Rose

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Tags: birds, flowers, roses, sparrows

Kentucky Warbler and Maidenhair Fern

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Color lithograph of a Kentucky Warbler and Maidenhair Fern.

Tags: birds, ferns, warblers

Female Form

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Watercolor, acrylic, pen & ink on paper, three sides (left, right and top) have been torn for artistic effect. Image is of a woman with flowing hair.

Tags: acrylic paintings, females, watercolors, Women

Circus Act

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Circus characters and elephants in a colorful painting.

Tags: circus, clowns, elephants, jesters, masks

Medusa (with Stand)

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Medussa sculpture created circa 2000

Tags: Gorgo, Grecian, Greece, Greek, Medusa, mythology, myths, snakes

Little Houses

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Tags: ceramics, houses

Blue Bird

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Acrylic on canvas textured paper of a blue bird with red, yellow, and green wings.

Tags: acrylic paintings, birds

Hibiscus

Acrylic on canvas textured paper of a red hibiscus.

Tags: acrylic paintings, flowers, hibiscus, plants

Watts-Bell House in Constitution Square

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Pen and ink drawing of the Watts-Bell House in Constitution Square, Danville, KY

Tags: Boyle, Boyle County, Boyle County Kentucky, Constitution Square, Danville, Danville Kentucky, houses

Elizabeth T. Lee Wilkinson Portrait

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Oil on wooden panel painting, portrait of Elizabeth T. Lee Wilkinson (Betty Lee Wilkinson), seated, painted from the waist up.

Tags: oil paintings, portraits

Handprints

The work is made up of eleven (11) white tiles with children's handprints in a variety of colors. They are surrounded by blue tiles to complete the wall panel. The grouting is white.

Tags: children, handprints, hands, kids

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