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Inventory of Art in the Libraries

Title Image of Art Piece Artist Name Art Creation Year Art Information Art Type Art Classification Art Location Donor Name Art Donation Year
Oceans Welded copper sculpture of a deep sea creature Charles Lincoln Eddy c.1960s

Metal
Located inside the Administrative Suite, 1 Center

(Formerly referred to as "The Bug")

 

 Sculpture Unknown On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor Center
Base Hit Painting of baseball game showing pitcher, catcher, and batter. Eric B. Weston 2007

Located inside the Turfgrass Information Center (Main Library, 3West).

 Painting Unknown On Display at the MSU Main Library 3rd Floor West Eric B. Weston
America's First Agricultural College America's First Agricultural College Henry Bernstein 1938

Mural commissioned by the Federal Arts Project of the WPA for the East Lansing (Michigan) Post Office, on Loan from the United States Post Office
1st Floor (Special Collections)

 Painting On Loan On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor Center
Artifacts Sculpture of silver and rustic tiles Glen Michaels 1979, reworked in 2010

Mixed media
1 West (Faculty Book Collection alcove)

 Mixed Media On Loan On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor West
Skyfire Modern sculpture featuring overlapping strips in vibrant colors and black and white. John T. Scott 2004

Mixed media
2 West (north stairwell)

 Mixed Media Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West Selma D. Hollander, in memory of Professor Stanley C. Hollander
Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour Graphical shapes over a blue striped background. Edgar Franceschi c.1990s

Lithograph
Located inside conference room on 4 West

 Print/Lithograph Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West Stephen Wilensky and Mark Ritzenhein
Untitled Splatters of blue, green, purple, and orange on diagonal white strips Unknown Unknown Mixed Media Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East Ted Wilson, Class of 2001
Clang Tone Metal sculpture of a tuning fork James Cunningham 2013

Located in west stairwell on 2nd floor west, Main Library

 Sculpture Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West Stephen Wilensky, in memory of Mark Ritzenhein
Feminidad swirls of pastel colors of acrylic paint on canvas Marty Quiroz 1985 Painting Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 4th Floor West Karen R. McDowell
Autumn Plains II A depiction of the sunrise with white plains depicted as white graphical squares. Robert Waterman c.1970s

Linocut-intaglio print

 Print/Lithograph Donated Not Currently Available for Public Viewing Stephen Wilensky and Mark Ritzenhein