Artists and Exhibits
Below is a list of the works in Middlebury’s campus public art collection. Simply click on the "read more" link below an artist’s name to reveal more detailed information about that particular work.
Tony Smith (American, 1912–1980)
Smog, 1969–1970, fabricated 2000
Painted aluminum, 7 x 80 x 60 feet. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2000.013
Location: East lawn of McCardell Bicentennial Hall
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Scott Burton (American, 1939–1989)
Bench and Table, 1988–1989
Cincinnati red granite, Bench: 87 x 18 x 19 inches; Table: 28 x 22 inches. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2001.002
Location: Ross Commons Courtyard
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J. Pindyck Miller (American, born 1938)
Youbie Obie, 1972–75, 1985
Corten steel
15 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 6 feet; Gift of James and Lauma Katis. 2013.094
Location: South lawn of Coffrin Hall, adjacent to Le Chateau
Kate Owen (British, Born 1963)
Hieroglyphics for the Ear, 1997
Slate and steel, five stands, each 44 1/2 x 14 x 2 1/4 inches. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2001.003
Location: Along the path between Atwater dining hall and 275 Weybridge Street
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Sabra Field (American, born 1935)
Mural of Cosmic Geometry, 2010
Synthetic oil, based on 2009 suite of sixteen linocuts
Executed by Colossal Media, New York
35 x 35 feet
Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy and matching private donations
Location: East wall of Wright Memorial Theatre
Jules Olitski (American, born Ukraine, 1922–2007)
Jules Olitski (American, born Ukraine, 1922–2007)
King Kong, 1973
Cor-ten steel, 5 feet x 9 feet 4 inches x 8 feet 5 inches. Gift of Sophia Healy. 1994.003
Location: In front of Johnson Memorial Building
George Rickey (American, 1907–2002)
Two Open Rectangles, Excentric, Variation VI, 1976
Stainless steel, 12 x 3 feet. Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Art Acquisition Fund and a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 1977.002
Location: In front of Johnson Memorial Building
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Herman de Vries (Dutch, born 1931)
Wintergräser [winter grass], 2013
Dried grass, collected at random and mounted in frames, 32 pieces, each 9 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches.
Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont. Purchase with funds provided by the Reva B. Seybolt ’72 Art Acquisition Fund, the G. Crossan Seybolt ’77 Art Acquisition Fund, and the Calvert H. Seybolt ’80 Art Acquisition Fund, 2014.020
Location: Lobby of the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
Deborah Fisher (American, born 1972)
Solid State Change, 2007
Discarded tires and electrical insulation. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2007.023
Location: Hillcrest Environmental Center
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Patrick Villiers Farrow (American, 1942–2009)
Frisbee Dog, 1989
Bronze, 68 x 28 x 36 inches. Gift of Gary Merrill. 1989
Location: On the quad in front of Munroe Hall
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Joseph Beuys (German, 1921–1986)
7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks), 1982–1987/1998
Basalt marker and red oak tree. Tree and basalt stone planted by the Middlebury College Museum of Art in memory of the artist Joseph Beuys. 1998.003
Location: Lawn between Starr Hall and Starr Axxin
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Michael Singer (American, born 1942)
Garden of the Seasons, 2003–2004
Granite, cast concrete, painted steel, aluminum, and plantings. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2004.048
Location: Adjacent to the library
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Matt Mullican (American, born 1951)
L’Art d’Ecrire (The Art of Writing), 2004–2005
Oil stick and acrylic paint on 64 canvas panels, overall dimensions: 25' x 74'. Commissioned by the Committee on Art in Public Places, Middlebury College, with funds provided by the Glenstone Foundation in honor of Charles Gwathmey, and The Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Fund for Mural Painting in America of The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York. 2005.039
Location: In the atrium of the library
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Jenny Holzer (American, Born 1950)
Selections from Truisms: A Sense of Timing..., 1977–1979
Danby Imperial marble, 16 3/4 x 61 x 25 3/8 inches. Purchase of the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy. 2001.004
Location: Second floor of the library
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Anonymous (Chinese, late 19th-early 20th century)
Ornamental Rock, China, Anhui Province, Lingbi County
Limestone with carved wood base, height: 44 inches. Purchase with funds provided by the Barbara P. and Robert P. ’64 Youngman Acquisition Fund for Asian Art, 2004.023
Location: Davis Family Library, 2nd Floor, East reading room
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
View of the Principal Elevation of the Column of Trajan, 1774
View of the Principal Elevation of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, ca. 1776
Etchings on paper, six sheets each. Acquired by Middlebury College c. 1900
Location: Reading Room of the Axinn Center at Starr Library
Jedd Novatt (American, born 1958)
Chaos Xaxis, 2012
Bronze, 14 x 13 x 13 feet.
Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont. Gift of an anonymous donor, 2015.010
Location: Southeast lawn of the Axinn Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library
Eric Nelson (American, born 1945)
Commotion: Converse and Grasp, early 1990s
Corten steel, Height 5’ 10” and 6’ 8”, respectively.
Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont. Gift of Thomas A. Moser and Virginia Hardy Moser ’50. 2017.026.1–.2
Location: Lawn behind Munford House, adjacent to north entrance of the Mahaney Center for the Arts
Patrick Dougherty (American, born 1945)
So Inclined, 2007
Red maple saplings and grey dogwood. Commissioned as a temporary deposit by the Committee on Art in Public Places with funds provided by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees One Percent for Art Policy.
Location: Front lawn of the Mahaney Center for the Arts, on view 2007-2011
Buky Schwartz (American, born Jerusalem, 1932–2009)
Plato’s Cave, 1990
Steel, video camera, video monitors. Acquired by the College for the Center for the Arts on the occasion of its inauguration. 1992.007
Location: Foyer of the Mahaney Center for the Arts
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Jonathan Borofsky (American, born 1942)
I dreamed I could fly at 3,876,225, 1984–1992
Acrylic on urethane foam, 19 1/2 x 58 x 39 inches. Gift of the Overbrook Foundation. 1995.009
Location: Lobby of the Mahaney Center for the Arts
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Dan Graham (American, born 1942)
Two-Way Mirror Curved Hedge Zig-Zag Labyrinth, 1996
Glass, steel, Arborvitae nigra, Height: 7 1/2 feet, radius: 15 feet. Purchase with funds from the Overbrook Foundation and the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, with contributions from the Middlebury College Frederick and Martha Lapham Art Acquisition Fund and the Walter Cerf Art Fund. 1996.067
Location: Courtyard of the Mahaney Center for the Arts
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Robert Indiana (American, born 1928)
LOVE, 1973
Painted aluminum, 6 x 6 x 3 feet. Gift of Ken and Linda Wilson. 2000.031
Location: Pond behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts
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Clement Meadmore (American, born Australia, 1929–2005)
Around and About, 1971
Painted aluminum, 7 feet x 11 feet x 7 feet 3 inches. Gift of Ken and Linda Wilson 2000.032
Location: Pond behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts
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Vito Acconci (American, born 1940)
Way Station I (Study Chamber), 1983/rebuilt 2013
Steel, concrete, spray enamel, mirror, 81 x 72 x 54 inches. Commissioned with funds provided by the Christian A. Johnson Fund (1983) and the Committee on Art in Public Places (2013), 2013.017
Location: Pond behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts
Lorenzo Ghiglieri (American, born 1931)
The Middlebury Panther, 1997
Bronze, over life-size. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip H. Morse and Shelley H. Morse, Class of 1995. 1997.022
Location: Youngman Field and Alumni Stadium
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