About
Drury University Art Collection
Drury’s art collection contains works spanning the eleventh through the twenty-first centuries from around the globe.
Featured Items
Chip-carved Male Figure with a Drum
Lamidi Olonade Fakeye (1928-2009) was a fifth generation artist of the famous Yoruba woodcarving family, the Fakeye, and he was one of the greatest traditional African woodcarvers of modern… ...more
[Untitled]
Drawing of a young women leaning forward wearing a strapless dress, Left side of paper cut away.
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Igloos for Rent
Landscape with pointed igloo-like forms resting on or rising out of the ground. Blue sky, green grass. Ten igloos visible, fading into the distance.
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Maquette for bronze portrait of Dr. Stephen H. Good
Male figure sitting on a simple gray bench holding an open book, and wearing a suit with bow tie. Left hand rests on open pages. Created for client Karen Sweeney to win commission for the… ...more
Abstract Variation
An abstract sculpture consisting of geometric steel shapes bolted and welded together, and painted red.
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Original illustration for "What is it the Mom Does? A Little Lullaby that Ended in Love's Old Sweet Song" Illustrated by Rose O'Neill. Written by Lenora Mattingly Weber.
Woman with her right hand on the forehead of a young girl and her left hand on the boot of a young boy sitting on a stool. ...more
The Samurai
Ceramic male figure (Samurai) sits on the back of a ceramic nude female. Figures have a metal frame around them suggesting an architectural space. Ceramics and metal are glued to a mint… ...more
Meditative Magnolia
60 x 40.5" large watercolor painting of a clear glass vase of pink and cream magnolias in water with distorted checkerboard reflection in vase, with petals fallen to imagined surface,… ...more
The Terror Outside
Figure pushes hard against a bolted door with swirls all around indicating wind. Five sets of eyes peer out from the swirls. Two handled jar on ground in front of figure. Heavily hatch… ...more
Little Mountain Mother
Female dancing with full skirt lifting to reveal legs. Hands have red fingernails to match red lips. She wears ruffles on her wrists, arms bare, feather headress. She looks directly at the… ...more
Featured Exhibit
The Gift
This exhibit introduces six works donated to Drury in May 2014, and exhibited for the first time at the Pool Art Center Gallery in November 2014.
Recent Items
Kundung Xylophone (with cow horns)
Kundu Hourglass Drum
Stone Chapel (1/98)
Dr. Frank W. Clippinger Portrait
Meditative Magnolia
