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Notice: Due to ongoing construction, 4 East is currently closed to the public.  To obtain items located on 4 East, please place an online request for the item to be paged for you using the ‘Place Request’ button in the catalog. Please visit our Circulation FAQ page for assistance in using our catalog.

Inventory of Art in the Libraries

Title Image of Art Piece Artist Name Art Creation Year Art Information Art Type Art Classification Art Location Sort descending Donor Name Art Donation Year
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
Land, Lots and Lore: Cadastral Maps Through Time | Scanned Maps | Map Library | MSU Libraries

Land, Lots and Lore: Cadastral Maps Through Time

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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
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
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
Landscape #19 An interpretation of a mountain with an isolated area of bright colors. Volodymyr Shcherbak 2011

Acrylic and oil on canvas
Winner, 2011-2012 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

Painting Art Contest Winner On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East
Tomo Takeover Four women in a meadow that appear to be the same woman.  Elise Toups 2012

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

Painting Art Contest Winner On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East
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
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
Caves of Icthy 1 Image using dark colors, splotches of light blue. Ink painting on dark-gessoed canvas experimenting with luminescence. Emily Langenberg 2011

Oil on canvas
1 East
Winner, 2011-2012 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

An artwork in three pieces:

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