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.)

Outdoors

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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

workstation corridor between the circulation and reference areas

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
Great Lawn Panorama	cold pressed watercolor paper, pigmented inks	Mark Spencer	First floor

Previously on the Main Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
The Hill, the Mill and the Till	Fabric	Local quilters	Gifted to the Andover Historical Society in 2018

Lower Level

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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
Wall Clock	Marble and Pine		Children's Room Essex Street wall

Aerial Sculptures

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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

Ground Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
St. Abigail's Day	Acrylic	Paul Endres Jr.	wall on Essex Street side

Stairway (lower level to Main Floor)

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
Freesia	Fabric	Ruth McDowell	Stairway
Out on a Limb	Fabric	Ruth McDowell	Stairway

Main Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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	hallway between elevator and circulation desk
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

Elm Square Stairway to the Second Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
Edwin Forbes prints	Black & white sketches	Edwin Forbes
Gettysburg Battlefield	Print		Landing outside Memorial Hall

Stairway from Main Floor to Second Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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

Second Floor

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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 Old Army 38 Star Banner	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

Civil War Memorabilia

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
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