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Library Senior Art Purchase Award
History and Recipients

Started in 1973, the Library Senior Art Purchase Award is an art competion for all Earlham seniors. Tom Kirk, Nancy Taylor and Doug Bennett, in consultation with the faculty of the Art Department, select the award. The recipient of the $350 award is notified by Tom Kirk. The awarded art works are displayed throughout Lilly Library and Wildman Science Library.

LIBRARY SENIOR ART PURCHASE AWARDS

1973 John Boone. Oil: "View Blue" : Wildman, SW corner, basement.

1974 Cynthia Moore. Etching: "Newton's Three Laws of Motion": was in Lilly, main floor, north wall near carrels - missing.

1975 Paul Kelty. Etchings: missing.

1976 Julie Karlson. Oil: untitled [Earlham Hall]: was in Lilly, top floor, west wall - missing.

1977 Elizabeth "Liza" Donnelly. Line drawing: "Broadway and 72nd St.": was in Lilly, Librarian's office - missing.

1978 Brown Griffith. Pen and ink drawing of vegetables: was in Lilly, main floor, north wall near carrels - missing.

1978 Amy Garner. Silk screen, "Mexican Laguna": Lilly hallway near faculty lounge.

1979 Fred Charles. Photographs: "Earlham Drive, Fall 1978" and "Earlham Orchard,
Fall 1978": Lilly, main floor south wall (new book area).

1980 Gretchen Crowell. Drawing: "Runyan Center": Lilly, main floor, Help Desk area.

1981 Laura DeCou. Print: "Mount Desert Island": Wildman.

1982 Francisco Gutierrez. Untitled drawing (pencil sketch): Lilly, Christine Larson’s office.

1982 Thomas Patterson. Print: "True Text": Lilly, main floor, southwest corner of Government Documements.

1982 Marintha Miller. Oil painting: "Coral Bells": Wildman, east wall of main floor.

1982 Elizabeth Billings. Silkscreen print: "Triptych": Lilly, main floor, south wall, new book area

1983 Claudia Brzoza. Etched glass: "A Symmetrical Exercise": Lilly, top floor, main stairway landing.

1984 Eric Edgerton. Mezzo tint: "Solar Eclipse": was in Lilly, top floor, north wall - missing.

1984 Daniel Sims. Etching: "Bloodroot": Wildman, just outside Circulation Desk..

1985 Nick Planchon. Print on handmade paper: "The London Underground: -Lilly outside faculty lounge entrance.

1986 Rebecca Kerewsky. Assemblage: "Toys and Textures": Lilly, computer lab, south wall.

1986 Kent Fisher. Vase (wood fired stoneware): Lilly, top floor, main stairway landing - broken.

1986 David Milner. Oil on canvas: "Untitled Triptych": Lilly, main floor, computer lab, east wall.

1987 Gary Hirsch. Air brush on canvas: "The Blue Fork": missing.

1989 Cairene MacDonald. Sculpture, porcelaneous stoneware with shigaraki copper glaze, "Closed Form": Lilly, main floor, reference area.

1990 John McCoy. Hand-colored silver gelatin print: "Diptych: Nudes": Wildman, main floor, north wall.

1991 Susan L. Jackson. Weaving: "Krokbragd Rug": Lilly, hallway outside Faculty Lounge.

1992 Clint Charles Fries. "Ash of Artichoke" (pit-fired slip trailed stoneware): Lilly reference area on bookshelf.

1993 Hillary White. "Question the Images": mosaic sculptural box: Lilly, newspaper area near Ronald Gallery doorway.

1993 Shawn Kummer."Planet Desert III": stoneware, Raku fired: Lilly, reference area.

1994 Danielle Mia Leventhal. "Mixed Media Habitation": Lilly, third floor east of the Tokonoma. Destroyed by permission of artist. Photo of installation near new books area, south wall..

1995 Christine Black. Ceramic cylinders: Wildman, east side.

1996 Lance Jones. Photograph: Lilly, main floor, periodicals area, north wall.

1997 Eric Smith. “Untitled” Ceramic Jug: Lilly, reference area, on bookshelf.

1997 Naysan McIlhargey. Ceramic Mosaic Tile Picture: Lilly, near water fountain/new book area.

1998 Amber Clark. Photograph. “Untitled”: Lilly, main floor, periodicals area, west wall.

1999 Elizabeth Coughlin. “Cacoons”: Lilly, main floor, near newspapers, south wall.

2000 Emily Conrad. “Adelphia”: Metal Sculpture: Lilly, on landing going upstairs.

2001 Billy Cooper. Wood Fired Stoneware: Lilly, main floor, in reference area, on bookshelf.

2002 Naomi Dalglish. Two sculptures: pitfired stoneware figures: Lilly, main floor, in reference area, north wall.

2003 Chris Hartman. “Lifecycle”: metal sculpture: Wildman, north seating area, just north of entrance.

2004 Kristin Mork. “Ode to First Grade Form Drawing Collar”: metal work necklace: Lilly, main floor, in cabinet on north wall.

2005 William Andrew Chao. "A Collection of Notes Intended as a Brief Overview of Three Major Projection Systems for Drawing, Presented as a Triptych": HB Graphite on Bristol Board: Lilly, main floor, west side of hallway to Director's office.

2006 Virginia Hancock. "Untitled": Photography: Lilly, main floor, north wall of reference lab.

2007 Hannah Holby. "A Story": Painting-oil on watercolor paper: Lilly, main floor.