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View All Dec 24 | 9:00AM - 9:00PM Library Closed for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day The library and library services will be closed for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. Topeka and Shawnee County Public LibraryLouviere + Vanessa (Artist)
Far Too Near
2004-2023
Vertical image of an outdoor scene, an arm emerges from the right side of the print, and an almost silhouetted out-of-focus man holding an umbrella appears to stand in the hand. Made from a film negative that has been distressed and scratched.
Accession No.: 2023.016.002
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: 78.74 x 62.55 cm (31 x 24 5/8 in) image size
Material/Technique: photographs; digital prints
Angie Brockey (Artist)
Valley of the Shadow
2021
A unique tintype of a silhouette girl in a wide skirt, standing amidst bare-branched cutout trees that arc around her in a symmetrical pattern. She holds a small bird. The image is in black and against a brownish metallic ground of tin.
Accession No.: 2023.016.001
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: 12.70 x 12.70 cm (5 x 5 in)
Material/Technique: photographs; tin (metal)
Judith Lennox Sabatini (Artist)
The Herd
2006
Hand-colored photo of field with cattle and four men on horseback through center; grassy field takes up ¾ of bottom of scene; cattle in the upper middle and a blue sky fills the top. Gelatin silver photograph from film negative, hand-colored with photo oils and color pencil.
The object was made in Kansas, United States.
Accession No.: 2007.007
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: Image size 82.55 x 90.17 cm (32 1/2 x 35 1/2 in)
Material/Technique: black-and-white photographs; hand coloring
Lew Wilson (Artist)
Misty in Tucson
2006
Scene of Tucson, Arizona: silhouette of a mountain ridge in the distance, black silhouetted landscape in pale yellow, green and grey-black. Sky dominates the image. Either a scene at dusk or daybreak? This photograph was hand-colored in the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at a demonstration of hand-coloring photography by Lew Wilson in February of 2006.
The object was made in Tucson AZ.
Accession No.: 2006.040
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: Image size 16.51 x 16.51 cm (6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in)
Material/Technique: black-and-white photographs; hand coloring
Jim Richardson (Artist)
House On the C'ote De Rose, Brittany
1900s
Color digital print of a small reddish stone house with a slate roof, sandwiched between rocks that are larger than the house. Calm water in front. Overall warm, peachy colors as if at sunset.
The object was made in Lindsborg, Kansas, United States.
Accession No.: 2002.033
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: Size 24.77 x 37.47 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/4 in)
Material/Technique: giclée prints; digital prints
Terry Evans
untitled
ca. 1977
Color photograph in tans, browns of a tangle of light-color brush.
The object was made in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Accession No.: 2001.012.009
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: Size 37.47 x 37.47 cm (14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in)
Material/Technique: color photographs
Gordon Parks (Artist)
Mrs. Lucy Jefferson
1949
Lady sitting in a chair, in profile, holding a cane, on a porch of a clapboard sided house. The lady is elderly, African-American, with white hair, wearing a striped lower garment, dark blouse, plaid scarf or shawl on shoulders. An overall expression of dignity is portrayed.
The object was made in New York, New York, United States.
Accession No.: 1998.001
Category: Workspaper
Object Type: Photographs
Object Height/Width: Image size 27.94 x 31.75 cm (11 x 12 1/2 in)
Material/Technique: black-and-white photographs