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Virtual Tour of Art in the Libraries

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America's First Agricultural College

America's First Agricultural College
Henry Bernstein
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor Center

Mural commissioned by the Federal Arts Project of the WPA for the East Lansing (Michigan) Post…

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Artifacts

Sculpture of silver and rustic tiles
Glen Michaels
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor West

Mixed media
1 West (Faculty Book Collection alcove)

Autumn Plains II

A depiction of the sunrise with white plains depicted as white graphical squares.
Robert Waterman
Not Currently Available for Public Viewing

Linocut-intaglio print

Base Hit

Painting of baseball game showing pitcher, catcher, and batter.
Eric B. Weston
On Display at the MSU Main Library 3rd Floor West

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

Caves of Icthy 1

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

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

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Caves of Icthy 2

Oil on black canvas image using tones of blue, green, purple and white.
Emily Langenberg
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

An…

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Caves of Icthy 3

Oil on black canvas image using tones of blue, yellow, red, and white.
Emily Langenberg
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

An…

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Clang Tone

Metal sculpture of a tuning fork
James Cunningham
On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West

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

Dark Shadows

Women in bed holding a baby surrounded by two soldiers holding guns and creatures with multiple eyes and tentacles
Bruce Stepan
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

Feminidad

swirls of pastel colors of acrylic paint on canvas
Marty Quiroz
On Display at the MSU Main Library 4th Floor West

Forest Owls

A print that features blocks arranged to resemble two owls.
Robert Waterman
Not Currently Available for Public Viewing

Linocut-intaglio print

Immersion

An aqua colored contemporary painting
Jordan Taylor
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

Landscape #19

An interpretation of a mountain with an isolated area of bright colors.
Volodymyr Shcherbak
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

Modernist Metaphor

Silhouetted figure with collage-like graphics
Edgar Franceschi
On Display at the MSU Main Library 4th Floor West

Lithograph
Located in conference room on 4 West

Oceans

Welded copper sculpture of a deep sea creature
Charles Lincoln Eddy
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor Center

Metal
Located inside the Administrative Suite, 1 Center

(Formerly referred to as "…

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Sailing Through

person on ship bow with telescope peering into "torn" sections of landscape
Holly Nauta

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

Skyfire

Modern sculpture featuring overlapping strips in vibrant colors and black and white.
John T. Scott
On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West

Mixed media
2 West (north stairwell)

Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour

Graphical shapes over a blue striped background.
Edgar Franceschi
On Display at the MSU Main Library 2nd Floor West

Lithograph
Located inside conference room on 4 West

Things Are Being Hidden

Brightly colored biomorphic shapes creating semi-hidden layers
Steven Stradley
On Display at the MSU Main Library 4th Floor West

Oil on canvas
Winner, 2010-2011 Irene B. Arens Student Art Competition

Tomo Takeover

Four women in a meadow that appear to be the same woman.
Elise Toups
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East

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

Untitled

Splatters of blue, green, purple, and orange on diagonal white strips
Unknown
On Display at the MSU Main Library 1st Floor East
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