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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
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
Modernist Metaphor Silhouetted figure with collage-like graphics Edgar Franceschi c.1990s

Lithograph
Located in conference room on 4 West

 Print/Lithograph Donated On Display at the MSU Main Library 4th Floor West Stephen Wilensky and Mark Ritzenhein
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
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
Forest Owls A print that features blocks arranged to resemble two owls. Robert Waterman c.1970s

Linocut-intaglio print

 Print/Lithograph Donated Not Currently Available for Public Viewing Stephen Wilensky and Mark Ritzenhein
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
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
Sailing Through person on ship bow with telescope peering into "torn" sections of landscape Holly Nauta 2013

Oil on Canvas
Winner, 2013-2014 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

 Painting Art Contest Winner
Dark Shadows Women in bed holding a baby surrounded by two soldiers holding guns and creatures with multiple eyes and tentacles Bruce Stepan 2013

Oil on Canvas
Winner, 2013-2014 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

 Painting Art Contest Winner On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East
Immersion An aqua colored contemporary painting Jordan Taylor 2012

Oil on board
Winner, 2012-2013 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

 Painting Art Contest Winner On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East