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Wellesley outdoor art gallery

Even though Wellesley’s most controversial piece of outdoor art — Tony Matelli’s undie-clad Sleepwalker at Wellesley College — has moved on, Wellesley has lots of public sculptures, paintings and other art to admire, if you know where to look.

Colleges

Babson College (More examples here):

The Babson Globe

Babson globe Wellesley

A little child will lead us (near Glavin Chapel)

a little child shall leave them sculpture glavin chapel babson wellesley

The totem pole outside athletics center

babson sculpture athletics complex wellesley

 

 

 

 

 

Small version of Totem at Babson, Wellesley
Mini version of Totem located inside Webster Athletics Center

Burned at the stake memorial (outside Coleman Hall)

roger babson rock bible burned at stake wellesley

Ominous Ikon #6 and smaller Yaddo Study, both made of Corten steel and located behind Kriebel Hall (by Dennis Kowal)

sculpture babson behind kriebel hall wellesley

sculpture babson behind kriebel hall wellesley

Bird at Park Manor South (no longer on display as of 2016)

bird-art babson
Bird art (via Babson College)

 

Wellesley College

John Rood’s Persephone, installed outside of Bates Hall in 1952. (More from Wellesley News)

 

Wellesley College sculpture
John Rood’s Demeter Wall outside Bates dorm at Wellesley College

 

Clement Meadmore’s Upsurge sculpture in front of Alumnae Hall, installed in 2012 (more from Swellesley)

Meadmore sculpture Wellesley College

Kenneth Snelson’s Mozart III has been on campus since 2008 (originally loaned, then gifted)

Kenneth Snelson's Mozart III sculpture at Wellesley College

Kenneth Snelson’s Mozart III Wellesley College

 

Wellesley College Clapp Library Greek Goddess sculptures in bronze: Hestia (goddess of the hearth, 1913) and Athena (goddess of wisdom, 1912)

Wellesley College Library statue

Hestia

 

Wellesley College library statue

Athena

 

Wellesley College Clapp Library sculptures

Robert Irwin’s Untitled (Filigreed Steel Line for Wellesley College) along shore of Lake Waban near Clapp Library

Robert Irwin’s Untitled

Robert Irwin sculpture at Wellesley

 

Shechinah Temptations (1976) by Jules Olitski, Wellesley College academic quad (had once started to sink, so was relocated on campus)

Shechinah Temptations (1976) by Jules Olitski, Wellesley College academic quad

Shechinah Temptations (1976) by Jules Olitski, Wellesley College academic quad

Two-faced woman at Tower Court (trying to get more details on this…)

two-face woman statue, Tower Court Wellesley Collegetwo-face woman statue, Tower Court Wellesley College

Michael Steiner’s Long Spread (1974)

Wellesley College Davis Museum sculpture
Michael Steiner’s Long Spread, steel sculpture outside of Davis Museum

Beverly Pepper’s Milano

Beverly Pepper's Milano steel sculpture outside of Wellesley College Davis Museum
Beverly Pepper’s Milano steel sculpture outside of Wellesley College Davis Museum

MORE on Wellesley College’s outdoor art

MassBay Community College

Liminal Bloom, Andy Zimmerman

Liminal Bloom, Andy Zimmerman, MassBay sculpture

Wellesley Square

Kepes panels at Wellesley Free Library

Kepes panels, Wellesley Free LibraryWellesley Free Library, Kepes Panels

 

Girl with the Butterfly (Merrilyn D. Marsh)  in Central Park at intersection of Central and Grove Streets

flower girl butterfly statue wellesley MA

Butterfly Girl in Central Park

Church Square bench at Terrazza

Church St. bench, Wellesley

 

K-12 Schools

The Grandmother Steps, by Louise McCagg, at Dana Hall School, outside the dining center

The Grandmother Steps at Dana Hall in WellesleyThe Grandmother Steps at Dana Hall in Wellesley

Saliba Courtyard at Dana Hall, located between the Upper School Classroom Building, the Lucia Farrington Shipley Science Center and Helen Temple Cooke Library Building. According to Dana Hall: “The architect of the Courtyard is Tom Wirth, who has contributed to PBS’s This Old House. Stone sculptor Roger Hopkins, who has narrated a PBS piece on Stonehenge, placed, sculpted, and polished rocks that were mined in a quarry in Chelmsford, Mass. The Courtyard design combines concentric circles in the midst of granite pavers and brick walkways. The center circle surrounds an in-ground fountain. The area closest to the Classroom Building offers a small patio with wooden benches. Many trees, including five large gingkos, enhance the Courtyard.”

Saliba Courtyard dana hall

 

Fenway mural at Upham (by Priscilla Christie). This mural has been painted over with Upham Eagle….

fenway mural at upham school

 

Bonus (Fenway yard on Amherst Street)

Fenway park house in Wellesley

 

Chalk outlines at Hardy Elementary School (Weston Road)

hardy outlines

 

Hands wall at Bates Elementary School

Hands wall at Bates Elementary School in Wellesley

Dana Hall School

 

Places of worship

Animal Lover (Merrilyn D. Marsh) at Cloister Garden at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

Animal Lover (Merrilyn D. Marsh) at Cloister Garden at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

 

Town buildings

Memorial to fallen officers at Wellesley Police station (dedicated in 2005)

Wellesley police station sculptureWellesley police station sculpture

Town Hall bell

holiday bell town hall

 

Linden Square

LINX mural

linx mural

Alexander Golob’s 600-foot long mural, “Crayon Box.”

Alexander Golob, Wellesley

Hunnewell Field

Trees on restroom building near tennis courts

restroom trees hunnewell field wellesley

 

Waban arches

Graffiti

waban arches

Lake Waban

Hunnewell Topiary along trail around Lake Waban

On the border

Goddesses of Horticulture (Flora, Ceres, and Pomona) at Elm Bank Reservation. Technically, Elm Bank Reservation’s Mass Horticultural Society has a Wellesley address, although the land in the park is in Dover.

Statuary by Martin Millmore at Elm Bank Horticulture Center, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. These works were made in the 1860s to adorn the exterior of Horticultural Hall, Tremont St., Boston

 

Electrical boxes around town

electrical box painting

monarch butterfly electrical box wellesley hills

Julia Blake painting
Julia Blake jn the zone

 

Yard art

The buck tree on Overbrook Drive

Wood carving, Overbrook Dr., Wellesley

Squirrels and friends tree carving at Squirrel Road and Woodlawn Avenue

squirrel tree squirrel tree

squirrel tree
Squirrels and friends carved into tree at Squirrel Road and Woodlawn Avenue (photos via KC)

 

No longer here

Tony Matelli’s The Sleepwalker, at Wellesley College, 2014.

Wellesley Sleepwalker

 

MORE: Creative spirit recycled at Wellesley Dump Art Day (2016)

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