Original Art at MHL

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	Back entrance
Polar Bear sculpture	granite	Jim Sardonis	In 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

Children's Room

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
Beaver	Bronze	Georgia Gerber	Children's Room
Big Boy			Children's Room
Family Outing	Wood	William Accorsi	Children’s Room
Hot Air Balloon		William Accorsi	Children’s Room
The Airplane	Wood	William Accorsi	Children’s Room
Vanessa	Collage	William Accorsi	Children's Room

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
“Over Andover”, 1988	Acrylic mural	Mark Steele	Near elevator
Abstract Mobile	brass, steel and aluminum sheet metal, acrylic colors, steel wires	Mark Davis	Lower level entryway
Lion Light	Acrylic	Corey Tevan	Activity Room

Ground Level

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
St. Abigail’s Day	Acrylic	Paul Endres Jr.	Ground Level

Stairway from Lower Level to Level 1

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

Level 1

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
“Gargoyle”	Wood	Patricia Keck	over the Reference Desk
Abraham Lincoln	Photograph of a chalk drawing	Charles Barry	Circulation Area
Cat’s Cradle	Wood	David C. Roy	Reference Room
Centerpoint	Clay	Phyllis Baker Hammond	Reference Room
George Washington at Monmouth	Oil	Attributed to George Lange	Circulation Area
Great Lawn Panorama	cold pressed watercolor paper, pigmented inks	Mark Spencer	Reference Room
Horse	Painting	Shane Crabtree	Reference Room
Horse and Bear	Painting	Shane Crabtree	Reference Room
Illustrations by Sarah Landry	pen and ink; graphite	Sarah B. Landry	hallway between circulation and reference
John Smith	Oil	Edgar Parker	Reading Room
Library with Mansard Roof			Reading Room
Peter Smith	Oil	Edgar Parker	Reading Room
Seekers	Bronze	Richard Rosenblum	Reading Room
Wall Clock	Marble and Pine		Reference Room

Elm Square Stairway to the Level 2 Hall

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
Gettysburg Battlefield	Print		Landing outside Memorial Hall
Life Studies in the Great Army by Edwin Forbes	Black & white sketches	Edwin Forbes	Stairwell outside Memorial Hall

Stairway from Level 1 to Level 2

Name of Piece	Material	Artist
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

Level 2

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
A portrait of a room	Oil	Catherine Nolan	November Club Room
Ballardvale	Oil	Bancroft Haynes (1881-1929)	2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Are
Benjamin Abbot Homestead	Watercolor	Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977)	2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area
Dancing Man	Wood	Patricia Keck	Level 2
Moncrieff Rhododendrons	Acrylic	William Gotha	Level 2
Moutain Shot		Frederick Seifer	Level 2
No name found	Watercolor	Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977)	2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area
November Club in 1891	Watercolor	Cory Staid	November Club Room
Samaritan House on School Street	Oil	Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977)	2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area
View of Rabbit’s Pond, 1934	Oil	Howard A. Coon (1890 –1977)	2nd Floor Hanging Exhibit Area

Memorial Hall

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
1863 Rifled Musket		S.N. & W.T. Clement, contract manufacturers for the State of Massachusetts	Memorial Hall
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
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
Declaration of anti-slavery convention			Memorial Hall
E. Kendall Jenkins — 1925	Portrait		Memorial Hall
Gettysburg Address Plaque	bronze		Memorial Hall
Grand Old Army 38 Star Banner	Conserved in 2002		Memorial Hall
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Portrait		Memorial Hall
Logan’s Memorial Day Order	Bronze Plaque		Memorial Hall
Portrait of Grant	Black and White		Memorial Hall
To the Memory of Our Patriotic Dead	marble	Bowker, Torrey & Company Boston	Memorial Hall
Two swords and holders	In a case		Memorial Hall
Walter L. Raymond	Portrait		Memorial Hall

Andover Room

Name of Piece	Material	Artist	Location
America	In the artist’s own handwriting	Samuel Francis Smith	Andover Room
Captain Horace Holt – 1865	Portrait		Andover Room
First Try	Print of horses	C.W. Anderson	Andover Room
Samuel Whiskers		Beatrix Potter	Andover Room