Coal river. Connard Wolfe's sculpting tools. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Chrome bust of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in West Hollywo...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The piece, "Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head" by the Chinese artist brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, is said to have caused an ... More
"Personage and Birds," by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró, stands out...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Colorful art on the façade of a building in the Mission District, San ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Neon art inside the Pershing Square Metro subway station in downtown L...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's whimsical "Plantoir" ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
British artist Gary Hume's two statues, identical in dimensions, in De...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Passerby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Neon art inside the Pershing Square Metro subway station in downtown L...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and salons in the United Sta... More
Underground portion of the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Underground portion of the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Bicycles as art in Salado, Texas, a small, artistic town between Waco ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
One of six "touchable art" black squirrel statues created by Brower Ha...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
"Helmholtz," is one of the most prized works of art in the Fort Wayne,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture honors physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, who specialized in magnetic-field research. Credit line: Photographs in the Caro... More
Some of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The groupings include brightly colored "dangos," as Kaneko called them, after a form of Japanese dumplings often served on a stick. Cr... More
Houston artists in front of Project Row House, a public-art project in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Madonna and Child, sculpted by Connard Wolfe, located outside the Kana...
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. This stone sculpture has been painted brown.
Cemetery, made by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia,...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Rally. Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Carol Jackson, Hinton artist who created the Mountain Top Cemetery
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Sculpture information in title from www.sculpturesite.com, 2018. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmi... More
Chrome bust of Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in West Hollywo...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The piece, "Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head" by the Chinese artist brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, is said to have caused an ... More
Bicycles as art in Salado, Texas, a small, artistic town between Waco ...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's 2014 "The Soul of Words I & II" sculptur...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's "Nomade" sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa's...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It's an open piece, inviting people to enter it, like a grandmother embracing her children, Plensa explained. Letters, like living cel... More
Artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's whimsical "Plantoir" ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
On this mural at an "El" station on Chicago, Illinois' East 55th Stree...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
"Red Lady," a reclining nude sculpted by Connard Wolfe in the woods ne...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Artist Omri Amrany's sculpture, "The Fusion," installed in 2006 to mar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation, which was seeking to meet the soaring demand for steel in nearby Chicago, Illi... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Underground portion of the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Wall art by Gilbert "Magu" Lujan inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subwa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More
Stick-figure in Motion public art in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Raleigh, North Carolina's Big Acorn sculpture, a public-art piece salu...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture normally stands at Moore Park but, at the time of this photograph, had been temporarily moved to a location near Municip... More
Shotgun houses included in a public-art project called Project Row Hou...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara combined child and dog figures into a s...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The "Oculus" domed performance pavilion in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bay...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Wellspring" fountain were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credit line: Photog... More
"Flying Monkey" sculptures atop a building on the Burlington, Vermont,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The steel sculptures were created in the 1970s by artist Steve Larrabee to expand upon the Wizard of Oz theme of a now-defunct local w... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Guitar art on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The "instruments" were placed by Gibson Guitartown on the "Sunset Strip" portion of the boulevard, leading up to the annual Sunset Strip Music Festival. C... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More
Sculpture, Hearts in San Francisco public art installation, Union Squa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Union Square is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, tourist trinket shops, art galleries, and sal... More
Tiburon, California art in the center of the town
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sculpture information in title from www.sculpturesite.com, 2018. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photograph... More
Public art along U.S. Highway 290 in Blanco County, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A sculpture of two people sitting on a bench This sculpture by artist ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Part of the "Human Landscape" exhibition of works by Spanish artist Ja...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The exhibit includes heated outdoor sculptures, plus indoor installations that include a stainless-steel curtain through which visitor... More
Statue in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Passersby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Coal river. Gravestones carved by Connard Wolfe. Southern West Virgini...
Event: Visit to the sculpture studio of Connard Wolfe. Public domain photograph - grave, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - monument, cemete... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The "Wellspring" fountain in Council Bluffs, Iowa's, Bayliss Park
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This public-art feature and the nearby "Oculus" domed performance pavilion were created by Brower Hatcher and installed in 2007. Credi... More
The "Sing the Queen City" three-dimensional, painted aluminum sculptur...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture, by Tommy Sheehan, features the words "Sing the Queen City," a line from the last stanza of the poem "Seven Hills and a ... More
Public art in Chicago, Illinois, including the city's most famous scul...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More
The Gates Art, Central Park, New York, New York
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in February 2005. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. C... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Old-time Hollywood movie camera inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Many U.S. cities have adopted one animal or another as a theme for muc...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Harvest Time, artist Brad Godell's 2011 mural in Cortez, Colorado, sug...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural depicts the gathering of peaches, a delicacy so renowned in the Montezuma County area that they won a gold medal at the 1904... More
"Personage and Birds," by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró, stands out...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Passersby at a mural in San Antonio, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Young Virginia Beach enthusiast at one of the beach community's many p...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Fire hydrant public art in front of the Fire Museum of Texas in Beaumo...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Artist Chas Fagan's statue of onetime American astronaut Neil Armstron...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Communities across America have adopted particular themes of public ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Decorated cows or rainbows or frogs, for instance. Here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it's human couples of various sorts, roughly modeled af... More
One of three silicone bronze "Haymarket Rabbits" in Council Bluffs, Io...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Deborah Masuoka's pieces are among many Iowa West Public Art installations across the city. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. H... More
John Fleming's "High Desert Spiral" sculpture is one of several pieces...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Some of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The groupings include brightly colored "dangos," as Kaneko called them, after a form of Japanese dumplings often served on a stick. Cr... More
Artist Kerri S. Bash's sculpture, "Plant a Seed," greets patrons at th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
"Molecule Man", actually three perforated figures combining to make on...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Jonathan Borofsky's work is one of many Iowa West Public Art pieces across the city. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmit... More
Wall art inside the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the Hollywo...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
A greatly oversized beach chair as art outside Findlay Market, a histo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Historically, Over-the-Rhine is a working-class neighborhood, believed to be the largest, most intact urban historic district in the U... More
The Covered Bridge Art Association has decorated the windows of this M...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Its 31 extant covered bridges are a tourist attraction for the rural county. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archiv... More
One of the 21 individual elements in Japanese artist Jun Kaneko's 22,0...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Artist Christiane T. Martens's "Spectral Liberation" statue at the Gre...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio was founded by Toledo glassma...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands modernist sculptor Alexander Calder's "Stegosaurus" statue. The piece is a smaller version (but close to life-sized f... More
Salisbury House in Des Moines, Iowa, a manor home modeled after the Ki...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built by cosmetic magnate Carl Weeks and his wife, Edith Van Slyke Weeks, between 1923 and 1928, Salisbury House contains 42 rooms. Cr... More
"The Dreamer" sculpture, by David Phelps, in Palm Desert, California's...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The city owns and displays dozens of pieces of public art. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's A... More
Underground portion of the Hollywood/Vine Metro subway station in the ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
A Council Bluffs, Iowa, landmark, affectionately known locally as "Old...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
Two of six "touchable art" black squirrel statues created by Brower Ha...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Sculpture and tiny fountains outside the Toledo-Lucas County Public Li...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
This inglorious sculpture outside the Sioux City Art Center is one of ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It has a fancy, but strange, name, given to it by its creator, Chicago artist John Himmelfarb. It's "Penelope Awaiting Her Chamberlain... More