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Coal river. Connard Wolfe's sculpting tools. Southern West Virginia.

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 Folklife Center, created by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia

"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 Central Park, New York City

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 Hollywood, California

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 outside Chase Tower, Houston, Texas

"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 Francisco, California

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Los Angeles, California

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" trowel sculpture in Iowa capital city of Des Moines was specifically designed for outdoor viewing in a garden setting

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 Des Moines, Iowa's, Pappajohn Sculpture Park have a single name, "Back of a Snowman", even though only one figure is white like snow

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

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Los Angeles, California

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 Folklife Center, created by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia

"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 Central Park, New York City

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 Square, San Francisco, California

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 Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 and Austin

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 Hatcher in Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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, Indiana, Museum of Art collection

"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 22,000-square-foot "Rhythm" sculpture garden in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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 22 shotgun houses in the historic Third Ward, Houston, Texas

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 Kanawha Valley Church

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, commemorating streams buried under valley fill

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 Folklife Center, created by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia

"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

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

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 Hollywood, California

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 and Austin

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" sculptures outside the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio

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, Pappajohn Sculpture Park

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" trowel sculpture in Iowa capital city of Des Moines was specifically designed for outdoor viewing in a garden setting

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 Street, figures of diverse backgrounds address the question, "Where are you going?"

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 near his studio

"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 mark the centennial of Gary, Indiana, one of America's most economically distressed cities

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 subway station in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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

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 saluting the city's nickname as the "City of Trees"

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 House, Houston, Texas

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 Central Park, New York City

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 single "White Ghost" sculpture in Des Moines, Iowa's, Pappajohn Sculpture Park

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, Bayliss Park

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, waterfont

"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 Central Park, New York City

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 Central Park, New York City

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

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 Folklife Center, created by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia

"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

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 Square, San Francisco, California

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

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

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 Keith Haring in Des Moines, Iowa's, Pappajohn Sculpture Park, is not really untitled, even though its name is "Untitled (Three Dancing Figures, Version C)"

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 Jaume Plensa at the Toledo Museum of Art

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

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

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 Virginia.

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 Central Park, New York City

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

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 sculpture was placed in Freedom Park along the Cincinnati, Ohio, waterfront in 2015

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 sculpture, an unnamed piece by Pablo Picasso, shown across the street

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 Central Park, New York City

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

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

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 Central Park, New York City

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 station in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 much of their public art and Elkhart, Indiana's elk, serves the purpose and is a handy play on words

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, suggesting Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals during the Great Depression

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 outside Chase Tower, Houston, Texas

"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

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 public-art displays, Virginia Beach, Virginia

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 Beaumont

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969, outside the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, home to the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana

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 art

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, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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 of public art installed at "roundabout" traffic circles in Bend, Oregon

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 Central Park, New York City

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 Central Park, New York City

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 22,000-square-foot "Rhythm" sculpture garden in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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 the Nappanee Public Library in Nappanee, Indiana

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 one sculpture, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

"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 Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 historic public market in the now-gentrified (in 2016) Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

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 Main Street building in the county seat of Rockville in Parke County, Indiana

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 22,000-square-foot sculpture garden in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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 Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in the Iowa capital city

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 glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901 and moved to its current location, a Greek-revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912

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 King's House in Salisbury, England

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, Civic Center Park

"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 Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

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 Rusty," was moved from the city's prominent Bayliss Park to make room for a modernist fountain in 2013 but was relocated to another spot downtown, refurbished, and put back in service

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 Hatcher in Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a city that calls itself a place "where art lives"

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 Folklife Center, created by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia.  Included in this shot is a tombstone for Blair Mountain.

"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 Library in Toledo, Ohio, which has both a 1940 historic core and a 2001 modernist architectural addition

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 several exhibits that follow the truck theme, in the western Iowa city

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

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