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Drury University Art Collection
Drury’s art collection contains works spanning the eleventh through the twenty-first centuries from around the globe.
Featured Items
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
Lady in Heraldic Mantle, c. 1535
Brass rubbing with maroon crayon on white paper ...more
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
Woman's Head (Garda?)
Drawing of womans head
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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
"Turning Point"
Frank Andrew Cary Portrait (1879-1935)
Frank A. Cary was a Drury Prepatory, Adademy, and College student… ...more
Fieldside
Xylophone, balanji or balafon
