Memorial Hall Library - Original Art

See Original Art at Memorial Hall Library for pictures and locations of the art listed below.

More information on individual pieces of Memorial Hall Library Orginal Art can be found in the Andover File - Memorial Hall Library - Art Works.

Accorsi, William

Artwork: "Vanessa", "Hot Air Balloon", "Airplane", "Family Outing"

• Morgenroth, Linda. "William Accorsi Finds His Medium in Wood."

Barry, Charles Alfred

Artwork: "Abraham Lincoln" 1860

• "Long-Sought 'First Portrait" of Lincoln Found in Memorial Hall Library." Andover Townsman, March 6, 1947
• "Lincoln's First Portrait." Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 1947

Coon, Howard

Artwork: "View of Rabbit's Pond", "Ballardvale", "Samaritan House on School Street", "Benjamin Abbot Homestead on Central Street", Rose Cottage, Benjamin Abbot Homestead Built About 1865".

• "Library Brushed up Art Work," Andover Townsman, October 3, 1991.

Mr. Coon taught art at Abbot Academy. He painted local scenes around Andover and then in Gloucester when he moved there.

Gerber, Georgia

Artwork: Beaver Georgie Gerber sculpts and casts in bronze in her foundry in Whidbey Island, N.Y. CV in the Andover File under Artworks.

Hammond, Phyllis

Artwork: "Centerpoint"

• A description of Centerpoint

Twenty Quilters under the direction of Joan Ross

350th Anniversary Quilt: The Hill, the Mill, and the Till

• Description of the 350th Anniversary Quilt

The Hill, the Mill, and the Till is an original design by Judi Henderson illustrating scenes spanning the four centuries of Andover's existence.

Kleck, Pat

Artwork: "Dancing Man"

• Quimby, Beth. "Art Thrives in Quiet Life." Sunday Eagle Tribune, August 3, 1977, page 1.
• French, Kimberly. "Pat Keck's World of Upside Down." Boston Globe, June 1 1985.

McDowell, Ruth B.

Two Quilts: "Freesia", "Out on a Limb"

• "Ruth B. McDowell Quintessential Quilter". Quilt World, February/March 1988, p. 31 to p. 34.

Ms. McDowell is teacher, speaker, exhibitor and a renowned member of the New England Quilters Guild,

Raymond, David

Sculpture: "Real Miracles"

• "Modern Art on the Move." 'Andover Townsman, October 18, 1987.
• "What's Behind the Library." Andover Townsman, October 8, 1987

Sardonis, Jim Sculpture: Polar Bears 6 foot high sculpture of a polar bear mother nuzzling three young cubs: The mother cub is Aurora; The cubs are Klondike, Snowflake, and Grace. See

• "Nameless No More", Sunday Eagle Tribune, August 24, 2008
• Polar Bears Move in This Saturday", Townsman, June 12, 2008
• "Polar Bears Come to Andover", Eagle Tribune, June 15, 2008

Mr. Sardonis is a sculpture from Vermont.

Steele, Mark

Artwork: "Over Andover"

• Featuring the following Andoverites
  • From left to right front row: Kenneth Mahoney (Town Manager 1982 - 1990), Nancy Jacobson (Library Director 1974 - 1993), Miriam Putnam (Library Director 1939- 1967)
  • From left to right back row: M. John Christiansen, Jr. (Architect Shelpey Bulfince Boston), Norma Gammon, (Trustee Chair 1985 - 1989) Michael Frishman (Friends' President 1986 - 1989)
• Temin, Christine. "Men of Harvard, Men of Steele," Boston Globe Magazine, September 7, 1986, page 19+

Mark Steele is a free lance illustrator,sculpture and painter (watercolor and pen and ink)

Sullivan, David

Artwork: "After Cezanne"

• Description of After Cezanne

Mr. Sullivan has painted several pieces of art based on the work of Cezanne to portray new elements in the masters work. Mr. Sullivan lives in Andover.

--Eleanor 16:23, March 13, 2007 (EDT)

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