Public Art on Campus

Public art on view throughout the Dartmouth campus includes works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kiki Smith, Mark di Suvero, Allan C. Houser, Luise Kaish, Beverly Pepper, George Rickey, Richard Serra, and Joel Shapiro, among others.

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Dartmouth College has a distinguished collection of works of public art throughout its campus. The works have enriched the environment in which we live, work, and study, and have played a vital role in exposing Dartmouth students, faculty, and the wider community to a diverse range of contemporary art.

Outdoor sculptures include Ellsworth Kelly's stunning Dartmouth Panels (2012), a major site-specific work consisting of five monochromatic aluminum panels, each painted in a single block of radiant color, designed for the east façade of the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium, facing the Black Family Visual Arts Center. More recently, the College unveiled Kiki Smith's shimmering stainless steel sculpture Refuge (2014) on the adjacent Maffei Arts Plaza. These join works by such internationally recognized artists as Mark di Suvero, Allan C. Houser, Luise Kaish, Beverly Pepper, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.

On view in Baker Library is the remarkable fresco mural cycle by José Clemente Orozco titled The Epic of American Civilization, which the noted Mexican modernist artist painted from 1932 to 1934.

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Thomas S. Beale, American, born 1978
Harlequin
2002
2005.66
Bruce Beasley, American, born 1939
Partisan II
1997
2007.46.5
Allan C. Houser, Chiricahua Apache / American, 1914 - 1994 | Chiricahua Apache | Southwest | Apache
Peaceful Serenity
1992
2007.56
Piita Irniq (Peter Irniq), Inuit, born 1947 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Inuksuk
2007
2009.81
Clement Meadmore, American (born Australia), 1929 - 2005
Perdido
1978
2013.55
Kiki Smith, American (born Germany), born 1954
Refuge
2014
2015.14
Ursula von Rydingsvard, American (born Germany), born 1942
Wide Bąbelki Bowl (In Honor of Anne Greengard '08)
2007
2019.90
John Wilson, American, 1922 - 2015
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1982
2021.28
Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz, American, 1930 - 2020
Op Football
1967
mis.967.342
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Man Released from the Mechanistic to the Creative Life
1932
p.932.12
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
The Epic of American Civilization: Migration (Panel 1)
1932-1934
p.934.13.1
Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, English (born South Africa), 1908 - 1968
Warner Bentley, Director of Hopkins Center (1960-1969), Director of Dartmouth Players (1928-1960)
1968
s.969.91
Charles O. Perry, American, 1929 - 2011
D sub-two D
1973-1975
s.975.74
Mark Di Suvero, American, born 1933
X-Delta
1970
s.976.72
Beverly Pepper, American, 1922 - 2020
Thel
1975-1977
s.977.144
Joel Shapiro, American, born 1941
untitled (Hood Museum of Art)
1989-1990
s.990.40
George Lundeen, American, born 1948
Robert Frost (1874-1963), Class of 1896
1996
s.996.50
Ellsworth Kelly, American, 1923 - 2015
Dartmouth Panels
2012
2012.35a-e
Rose B. Simpson, Kha'p'o Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo) / American, born 1983
Heights I
2022
2023.8