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Leonard S. Shoen
system of self-advertising via orange painted trucks that U-Haul is known for today. By 1984, Shoen’s initial investment in U-Haul of $5,000 had given rise to a company worth over $1 billion dollars with earnings of $42 million. View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- Portrait Project
Britt Williams
Painted faces, excessive candles, and neon costumes adorned the large, wooden dining table. Music emanated from the mini speaker in the kitchen, inviting us to dance while we did the dishes. Another typical Sunday evening. Growing up, my... View Details
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Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
owed the artist money for two paintings. Rembrandt probably did this portrait in thanks for Uytenbogaert's generosity. 16 Le Plaisir des Vieillards view image Engraved and published by Pierre François Basan (1735–97), after the painting... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
of the novel. “Two students chose a Picasso painting of a mother and child, but they had very different ideas of what the painting meant,” says Sucher. “The work of art is a metaphoric parallel to a complex... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Portrait of a Dean
reception hosted by Dean Kim B. Clark. Painted by George Augusta, the portrait hangs in a newly created "Deans' Gallery" in the large stairwell leading up to the Reading Room in Baker Library. A collection of portraits of past deans is... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
to think about what she might want to do next, Murrell took the plunge, applying to the PhD program at Columbia University and beginning her studies in the fall of 2007. Sitting in a darkened auditorium, Murrell had a flash of insight when Éduoard Manet's 1863 View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
advantage—tend to live by it in our own personal affairs every day. For the most part, we all try to do what we're relatively best at and trade for everything else. Take an investment banker, for example. Even if that investment banker were better at View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
Artist Yazan Halwani (left) puts the finishing touches on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful flower seller in... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Classic Lines
Contemplating old furniture and oddities from the attic sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry — hardly the stuff of prime-time entertainment. Yet Antiques Roadshow, in which people present their household treasures for inspection... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
(1869–70), Bazille depicts the same black model very differently: beautifully painted as an exotic, bare-breasted servant to a white odalisque, or prostitute. This was a very accepted way for black women to be portrayed in 19th-century... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Esther Hsu
to record the fleeting moments, which quilt together into days, months, and years. But my treasured photos are reminders for today disguised as souvenirs from the past. Taken as a whole, they create a mosaic of my mind's eye. I recall the shots of chipping View Details
- Portrait Project
Derrick Snyder
marveled while exploring ancient cave paintings and bonded while riding horses across the horizon. We shared s'mores around the fire, while I spent night after night captivated by the flickering palette of an expansive sky, littered with... View Details
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Stephen Mathew
painting of my favorite water spring I would swim in back home. I'll leave with a new painting of Aldrich Hall and all the cherished memories with my friends in there. How have diverse perspectives in your... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dina Wang
how to see the world with an artist's eye. He showed me that even mundane things can be beautiful. No dog was too mangy to be the subject of a quick sketch—the scruffier the better. And we never walked down a street together without stopping mid-conversation to point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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New Art
some 150 works represented by nearly twenty galleries before making the final selections. The day begins at half past nine with a stop at the Bellwether Gallery, where we view Amy Wilson’s childlike paintings of young girls and skeletons.... View Details
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Anmol Gupta
On my first day of school, I peed my pants. Not because I was afraid of life without my mom’s aloo parathas for lunch, or the punishment I would face for splattering crimson-colored paint all over my Mickey Mouse shirt; I peed my pants... View Details
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Art Nature Business
ecological systems; innovation, industrialization, recycling, and natural resources; changing weather patterns; the resilience of nature; and the human impact on the planet. Installed throughout the first floor of Spangler Center, this exhibition features art in a... View Details
Otto Haas
Along with chemist Otto Rohm, Haas founded one of the world’s largest specialty chemical producers. Under his leadership, Rohm and Haas discovered two major products that have had a significant impact on business and society – Plexiglas and chemical View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
friendship," the Morses traveled with Dalí and his wife, Gala, to Paris and Rome and to Dalí's home in Spain. Over the years, they published seven books about Dalí, who died in 1989, and amassed nearly one hundred of the artist's View Details
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Biblical and Mythological Scenes - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
published by Cornelis Galle the Elder (ca. 1576–1650), after Tiziano Vecellio (Titian, 1477–1575). [n.p., early 17th century]. 24 x 18.8 cm, image CC n4 x 32 [ St. Roch Giving Alms to the Poor ] view image Etching by Guido Reni (1572–1642), after the View Details