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Permanent Art Collection

George Marinko (American, 1908-1989), Moon Ring Fantasy, 1938, Oil on panel, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration; Commissioned through the New Deal art projects

About

Indiana State University's Permanent Art Collection approximately 4,000 works of art.

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Access to materials in the Permanent Art Collection is by appointment only.

For further information and to schedule tours and appointments, contact the Permanent Art Collection Curator, Ian Carey. (812)237-2064

Collection Strengths

Pop Art: Includes over one hundred and fifty Polaroids and eight screenprints by Andy Warhol; a portfolio of thirteen screenprints by Robert Indiana; Claes Oldenburg's London Knees portfolio (prints and sculpture) and N.Y.C. Pretzel ; prints by Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Jim Dine, Eduardo Paolozzi, James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg; and two paintings by Ed Paschke.
Contemporary American: Includes works by Garo Antreasian, Rudy Autio, Leonard Baskin, Kate Breakey, Christo, Sue Coe, Willem De Kooning, Ruth Duckworth, Tony Fitzpatrick, Christine Golden, Richard Hunt, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, Ida Kohlmeyer, Joseph Konopka, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Jacob Lawrence, Nathan Lerner, Robert Longo, Andrew Moore, Bruce Nauman, Philip Pearlstein, Gabor Peterdi, Richard Prince, Ernest Tino Trova, and William Wiley.
Works Progress Administration: Two hundred and forty paintings, prints, posters, and small sculptures dating from 1935 to 1941. Includes paintings by Julio de Diego, Paul Kelpe, George Marinko, and Joseph Stella; and prints by Ida Abelman, Jolan Bettelheim, Samuel Joseph Brown, Peter Busa, Stuart Davis, Mabel Dwight, Don Freeman, Michael Gallagher, Sargent Claude Johnson, Max Kahn, Wilmer Jennings, Helen Lundeberg, Reginald Marsh, Hugh Mesibov, Isaac Soyer, Harry Sternberg, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, and Joseph Vogel.
Op Art: Richard Anuszkiewicz's Inward Eye portfolio of eight serigraphs and poetry/prose by William Blake; and screenprints by Josef Albers (Op Art influence), Harris Deller, Bridget Riley, and Victor Vasarely.

Other Portfolios and Sub-Collections

Prints and portfolios by Peter Milton ,Paul Wunderlich , Jose Luis Cuevas, Robert Grody,Diego Rivera,Pierre Alechinsky,Paul william Ashby,liya Bolotovsky ,Documenta,Enrique Chagoya,Don LaViere Turner,Edward J. Mikula.
Nigerian Textiles by lyabo Abiola.
20th Century African masks.
Painting and drawing by Frank Samuel Eastman and Fannie blumberg .
Work by current and former art faculty including Alma Anderson,Whiteney Engeran,David Ericson,Robert Evans,Dick Hay,Fran Lattanzio,Nancy Nichols-Pethick,Jonathan Thomas,William T Turman,Leroy Lamis and Louis R. Williams.

European Art

Prints by Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jean Luçrat, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Rouault.

Public Sculpture

Thirty large outdoor sculptures and four indoor sculptures and installations by artists such as John Van Alstine, Chakaia Booker, Frans & Marja de Boer Lichtveld, Michael Dunbar, Howard Kalish, Doug Kornfeld, Thomas Torrens, Tim Upham and Madeline Wiener.