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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) ~ Hand of Dancer, Java, Indonesia, 1958. Gelatin silver print | src National Gallery of Art, Washington

[yumeyleo]

THE REVIEWS FOR THE REÍ PLUSH ARE SO FUCKING FUNNY IM GOING TO PUKE

[pointandshooter]

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[redrcs]

China Bust 80

Artist: Ah Xian

National Gallery of Australia

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, ca. 1800-1805, Spanish.

Painted by Francisco Goya.

Portraying a woman in a black dress and white lace mantilla.

National Gallery of Art.

[armthearmour]

The “Morosini Helmet,” a lavishly embossed blue and gilt parade Burgonet,

Height: 12 in/30.5 cm

Width: 9.2 in/23.3 cm

Depth: 13.9 in/35.4 cm

Milan, Italy, 1550-1560, housed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

[didoofcarthage]

Skating on the Frozen Amstel River (and detail) by Adam van Breen 

Dutch, 1611

oil on panel

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

[bugeater-420]

The Vision and Inspiration (Joan of Arc series: I), c. 1907-early 1909 by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, from the National Gallery of Art

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[ghoulalagoon]

tfw it all comes tumbling down tumbling tumbling down

[my-art-encounters]

Triptych (1970), Francis Bacon

📍National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Miss Sheila Sutherland, with cat [1915]. Glass negative | src SLV / view more on wordPress

Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Miss Gelfren (young woman with cat) (n.d.) | src NGA

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ZAMBONI PATENT 1949 “Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine”

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs, in honor of Zamboni drivers Alex B (NGA's Sculpture Garden Ice Rink) and Uncle Hank (Northern MI University).

Alex rocks the Zamboni at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink, 12/29/22, image by Miriam Kleiman.

Ever wonder about the incredibly cool “Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine” (aka Zamboni)?

We’ve got the patent! See all 124 pages in our Online Catalog (NARA ID 117724382).

Thanks to the Zamboni, the ice was smooth enough for this talented monkey! See Ice Skating Chimpanzee, 1963 (The Unwritten Record).

Excerpt from the release sheet: SPORTS MONKEY SHINES! THIS CHIMP IS A GAY BLADE: Usually, summer is the whacky season, but this winter things aren’t on an even keel in Germany. They’ve taught a Chimp to Skate and he’s a real swinger! After some tricks “Archibald” leads a Conga that proves he’s a real gay blade with quite a line figure-8-atively.

“Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine” Patent file excerpts:

PROBLEM: "The maintenance of a satisfactorily smooth surface on the ice is one of the major problems in connection with the operation of a skating rink… The squeegees have no effect on the hard-frozen rough ice, and the ice therefore remains rough 'until the next time that it is scraped."

BEFORE the Zamboni: "Heretofore, the usual method of cleaning off and smoothing the surface of the ice has been to send attendants out onto the ice to sweep off the cut ice with scrapers or sweeps that are pushed ahead of them; while in other instances, the ice is scraped clean by scraper blades mounted on towed sleds towed sleds or on automotive vehicles such as the small, four-wheel drive vehicles formerly used in the military services and known popularly as the jeep In either case, after the surface of the ice has 'been scraped clean, a thin film of water is spread over the ice to fill in the cracks and low spots, and surplus water is then squeegeed away, usually by a number of attendants on skates, pushing the squeegees ahead of them… 

GOAL of ZAMBONI: "[An] object of the invention is to provide a self-propelled vehicle that can be operated by one man, and which functions automatically to shave the ice, convey the shaved ice to a large receptacle attached to the vehicle, and then squeegee a thin film `of water over the surface of the ice so as to provide a like-new surface when the water has frozen."

Full citation: Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc. RG 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836-1978, Patent Case Files, 1936-1976, Patent Case File No. 2,642,679, Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine, Inventor Frank J. Zamboni. NARA ID 83876135

Much more online! 

Ice Skating in the National Archives, National Archives News special topics page

Records Reveal Winter Olympics History, National Archives News: 

Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center, 1937, The Unwritten Record: 

Kate S. Todd Improvement in Skating-Wands, 1872

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national gallery of art

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil painting, 1818, American.

Painted by Thomas Sully.

Portraying Eliza Ridgely in a white dress and blue shawl.

National Gallery of Art.