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
A little child will lead us (near Glavin Chapel)
The totem pole outside athletics center

Burned at the stake memorial (outside Coleman Hall)
Ominous Ikon #6 and smaller Yaddo Study, both made of Corten steel and located behind Kriebel Hall (by Dennis Kowal)
Bird at Park Manor South (no longer on display as of 2016)

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

Clement Meadmore’s Upsurge sculpture in front of Alumnae Hall, installed in 2012 (more from Swellesley)
Kenneth Snelson’s Mozart III has been on campus since 2008 (originally loaned, then gifted)
Wellesley College Clapp Library Greek Goddess sculptures in bronze: Hestia (goddess of the hearth, 1913) and Athena (goddess of wisdom, 1912)
Hestia
Athena
Robert Irwin’s Untitled (Filigreed Steel Line for Wellesley College) along shore of Lake Waban near Clapp Library
Shechinah Temptations (1976) by Jules Olitski, Wellesley College academic quad (had once started to sink, so was relocated on campus)
Two-faced woman at Tower Court (trying to get more details on this…)
Michael Steiner’s Long Spread (1974)


MORE on Wellesley College’s outdoor art
MassBay Community College
Liminal Bloom, Andy Zimmerman
Wellesley Square
Kepes panels at Wellesley Free Library
Girl with the Butterfly (Merrilyn D. Marsh) in Central Park at intersection of Central and Grove Streets
Church Square bench at Terrazza
K-12 Schools
The Grandmother Steps, by Louise McCagg, at Dana Hall School, outside the dining center
Fenway mural at Upham (by Priscilla Christie). This mural has been painted over with Upham Eagle….
Bonus (Fenway yard on Amherst Street)
Chalk outlines at Hardy Elementary School (Weston Road)
Hands wall at Bates Elementary School
Dana Hall School
Places of worship
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)
Town Hall bell
Linden Square
LINX mural
Alexander Golob’s 600-foot long mural, “Crayon Box.”
Hunnewell Field
Trees on restroom building near tennis courts
Waban arches
Graffiti
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.
Electrical boxes around town

Yard art
The buck tree on Overbrook Drive
Squirrels and friends tree carving at Squirrel Road and Woodlawn Avenue

No longer here
Tony Matelli’s The Sleepwalker, at Wellesley College, 2014.
MORE: Creative spirit recycled at Wellesley Dump Art Day (2016)