The Memorial Hall Library collection includes art in a broad range of two and three-dimensional works that are both historic and contemporary and produced in a variety of styles and media by international, national, and local artists.
Art has always been an integral element of this library building, reflected in its architecture and interior spaces. Art further expands the library's informational assets. It allows the viewer to visually integrate information, i.e., the appreciation of color, form or image, blending with the intellectual exercise of making sense of the work within the viewer's own experience.
When you visit the library, please take the opportunity to enjoy our collection! Art is everywhere you look. (Click here to see current and past artists of the month.)
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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American Elm, Andover, circa 1900 | Photograph | photographer unknown | west end of the building, overlooking the patio |
Polar Bear sculpture | granite | Jim Sardonis | front of the library |
Rational Dance and Anarchy of Real Miracles | Galvanized steel | David Raymond | Back entrance |
Shawsheen, Shawshin 1692-2017 | bronze and stainless steel | Gene and Susan Flores | Roof deck |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Great Lawn Panorama | cold pressed watercolor paper, pigmented inks | Mark Spencer | First floor |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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The Hill, the Mill and the Till | Fabric | Local quilters | Gifted to the Andover Historical Society in 2018 |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Abstract Mobile | brass, steel and aluminum sheet metal, acrylic colors, steel wires | Mark Davis | Lower level entryway |
Beaver | Bronze | Georgia Gerber | Floor near Children's Customer Service Desk |
Big Boy | Children's Room on book case/Essex Street wall | ||
Cat's Cradle | Wood | David C. Roy | Children's Room Essex Street wall |
First Issue Happy Birthday Stamp | Activity Room | ||
First Try | Print of horses | C.W. Anderson | Children's Room office |
Lion Light | Acrylic | Corey Tevan | Activity Room |
"Over Andover", 1988 | Acrylic mural | Mark Steele | Near elevator |
Vanessa | Collage | William Accorsi | Behind Children's Room Desk |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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The Airplane | Wood | William Accorsi | Children's Room ceiling |
Family Outing | Wood | William Accorsi | Children's Room ceiling |
Hot Air Balloon | William Accorsi | Children's Room ceiling |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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St. Abigail's Day | Acrylic | Paul Endres Jr. | wall on Essex Street side |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Freesia | Fabric | Ruth McDowell | Stairway |
Out on a Limb | Fabric | Ruth McDowell | Stairway |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Abraham Lincoln | Photograph of a chalk drawing | Charles Barry | Above the Customer Service Desk to the right of the Mezzanine. |
America | In the artist's own handwriting | Samuel Francis Smith | Andover Room |
Captain Horace Holt - 1865 | Portrait | Andover Room | |
Centerpoint | Clay | Phyllis Baker Hammond | Reference Room near Andover Room |
"Gargoyle" | Wood | Patricia Keck | over the Information Desk |
George Washington at Monmouth | Oil | Attributed to George Lange | Over fireplace |
Horse | Painting | Shane Crabtree | West wall of Reference Area |
Horse and Bear | Painting | Shane Crabtree | Across from Reference Desk |
Illustrations by Sarah Landry | pen and ink; graphite | Sarah B. Landry | workstation corridor between the circulation and reference desks |
John Smith | Oil | Edgar Parker | Reading Room north wall |
Library with Mansard Roof | To the right of the fireplace | ||
Peter Smith | Oil | Edgar Parker | Reading Room south wall |
Samuel Whiskers | Beatrix Potter | Andover Room | |
Seekers | Bronze | Richard Rosenblum | Reading Room |
Wall Clock | Marble and Pine | Reference Area |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Edwin Forbes prints | Black & white sketches | Edwin Forbes | |
Gettysburg Battlefield | Landing outside Memorial Hall |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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After Cezanne: Still Life with Flowered Pitcher", 1998 (Barnes Collection) | Gesso on wood; graphite with wax | David Sullivan | |
Large old photographs of Andover | |||
Mansion House on Andover Hill | Photograph | ||
Map of the Town of Andover, Essex County, 1852 | Cartographer: Henry Francis Walling, Lithographer: Augustus Kolner |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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Abraham Lincoln | Chalk | Charles Barry | Memorial Hall |
Anti-slavery banner reproduction painting: Am Not I a Man, and a Brother. | Acrylic | Sue Dennett, Norma Gammon, Karen Herman | Memorial Hall — east wall |
Anti-slavery banner reproduction painting: When Woman's Heart is Bleeding, Should Woman's Voice be Hush'd. | Acrylic | Sue Dennett, Norma Gammon, Karen Herman | Memorial Hall — east wall |
Ballardvale | Oil | Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977) | 2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area |
Benjamin Abbot Homestead | Watercolor | Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977) | 2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area |
Chinese Poem | Calligraphy | Professor Shen Yi-Cheng | Conference Room |
Dancing Man | Wood | Patricia Keck | Outside Director's office |
Declaration of anti-slavery convention | Memorial Hall | ||
E. Kendall Jenkins — 1925 | Portrait | Trustees Room | |
Grand Army of the Republic 38-star flag, General William Bartlett Post, Andover, Massachusetts | Conserved in 2002 | Memorial Hall | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Portrait | Memorial Hall | |
Jonathon Swift House Doorway | Watercolor | Jane Trumbore | Administrative Office |
Logan's Memorial Day Order | Bronze Plaque | Memorial Hall | |
Man with a Bow Sculpture | Frederick Seifer | Outside Administrative Office | |
Moncrieff Rhododendrons | Acrylic | William Gotha | outside Director's office |
No name found | Watercolor | Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977) | 2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area |
November Club in 1891 | Watercolor | Cory Staid | November Club Room |
A portrait of a room | Oil | Catherine Nolan | November Club Room |
Portrait of Grant | Black and White | Memorial Hall | |
Samaritan House on School Street | Oil | Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977) | 2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area |
To the Memory of Our Patriotic Dead | marble | Bowker, Torrey & Company Boston | Memorial Hall |
View of Rabbit's Pond, 1934 | Oil | Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977) | 2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area |
Walter L. Raymond | Portrait | Memorial Hall |
Name of Piece | Material | Artist | Location |
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1863 Rifled Musket | In a case | S.N. & W.T. Clement, contract manufacturers for the State of Massachusetts | Memorial Hall |
Two swords and holders | In a case | Memorial Hall |