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| Name: | Alphabet Quilt |
| Artist / Description: | A colorful representation of the alphabet with a puppy playing with each toy. The artist is Ken Baxter from the Senior Center Quilting Group. |
| History / Background: | Unknown |
| Medium: | Cotton cloth |
| Installation Date: | 2000 |
| Funding Source: | Unknown. |
| Name: | Brothers of the Sea |
| Artist / Description: | Michael Gentry was a Marysville resident. He is a nationally recognized painter of Native American Themes. |
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| Medium: | Print of a painting |
| Installation Date: | 1983 |
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| Name: | Child in Blue Chair |
| Artist / Description: | This watercolor was featured in the Sept. 30, 2003 issue of The New Yorker magazine. Gene Cyrus is a local artist and Friend of the Library. A print of this watercolor was donated to the library in 2003 by the artist. |
| History / Background: | Unknown. |
| Medium: | Watercolor |
| Installation Date: | 2003 |
| Funding Source: | Unknown. |
| Name: | Dewey Digital |
| Artist / Description: | An abstract stained glass surrounding the entryway doors by Jack Archibald. Jack owns Revisionary Glassworks on Camano Island. His work can be seen throughout Washington. |
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| Medium: | Stained glass. |
| Installation Date: | 2008 |
| Funding Source: | Gellerson family bequest and the friends of the Marysville library. |
| Name: | Eagle Dancer |
| Artist / Description: | A depiction of a Native American dancer in ceremonial costume. Michael Gentry. Mr. Gentry was a Marysville resident and is a nationally recognized painter of Native American themes. |
| History / Background: | Unknown |
| Medium: | Print of an oil painting |
| Installation Date: | 1988 |
| Funding Source: | Unknown |
| Name: | Legacy |
| Artist / Description: | An outside sculpture by Georgia Gerber of a young girl with an open book in her hands and a dog by her side sitting on the ground while reading to her grandfather who is seated on a bench. Georgia Gerber is a Whidbey Island resident who's work is found in numerous public an private places throughout Washington state. |
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| Medium: | Bronze casting |
| Installation Date: | 1996 |
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| Name: | Library Cat |
| Artist / Description: | A series of seven different poses of a cat lounging around the library. Sarah Ohman and Mark Stevenson, a couple from Carapace Arts Studio near Port Townsend, work in sculpture and bronze casting. |
| History / Background: | |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Installation Date: | 2008 |
| Funding Source: | Gellerson Family Bequest |
| Name: | Rhododendron Diptych |
| Artist / Description: | Joan Grout (1927 – 2010) was a local Marysville artist and a signature member of the Nothwest Watercolor Society. She was an active member of the Friends of the Marysville Library. |
| History / Background: | Unknown. |
| Medium: | Watercolor |
| Installation Date: | 2008 |
| Funding Source: | Donated by the Artist. |
| Name: | Seascape |
| Artist / Description: | The scene is a waterfront with fishing boats in the inlet. Arne Jensen was a northwest resident for most of his life and was a member of the Puget Sound Group of NW Painters and the NW Watercolor Society. |
| History / Background: | This painting was donated in memory of Virginia Schaefer. |
| Medium: | Watercolor |
| Installation Date: | Unknown |
| Funding Source: | Donated by the Artist. |
| Name: | Seascape |
| Artist / Description: | The scene is a waterfront with fishing boats in the inlet. Arne Jensen was a northwest resident for most of his life and was a member of the Puget Sound Group of NW Painters and the NW Watercolor Society. |
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| Medium: | Watercolor |
| Installation Date: | |
| Funding Source: | This painting was donated in memory of Virgian Schaefer. |
| Name: | Snowfall on Snohomish |
| Artist / Description: | A quiet, wintery scene on the Skykomish River with tall, dark evergreens along the banks. Bezalel-Levy is the husband and wife team of Chaim Bezalel and Yonnah Ben Levy. They own the Stanwood House Gallery and Art Center and have works displayed throughout the United States. |
| History / Background: | Unknown. |
| Medium: | Acrylics on silk. |
| Installation Date: | 2008 |
| Funding Source: | Donated by the Artist. |
| Name: | The Gift |
| Artist / Description: | The scene is of a Native American young women giving a gift of moccasins to a tribal elder. Michael Gentry is a local artist who used to reside in Marysville. He is a nationally recognized painter of Native American themes. |
| History / Background: | Unknown |
| Medium: | Print of an oil painting |
| Installation Date: | 1988 |
| Funding Source: | Donated by the Artist. |
| Name: | Untitled |
| Artist / Description: | Tapa cloth with abstract design. Tapa cloth is a Pacific Islander cloth made by stripping the inner bark from paper mulberry trees, soaking it, and the beating it with wooden clubs. |
| History / Background: | Unknown. |
| Medium: | Tapa Cloth |
| Installation Date: | Unknown. |
| Funding Source: | Donated by a community member. |
| Name: | Untitled |
| Artist / Description: | Totem pole carving based on a sketch of an inside house post that once existed at Skedans, a small Haida community on the easterly side of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Quilceda Carvers of Marysville: John Steiner, Walt Crane, Bruce Hames, Adam Mount, and Carl Lasater |
| History / Background: | Unknown |
| Medium: | Red cedar carving |
| Installation Date: | 1982 |
| Funding Source: | Unknown. |
| Name: | Wind in the willows |
| Artist / Description: | A hanging panel of stained glass depicting a scene from "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. The Artist is Nancy Alexander, a local artist and instructor at Covenant Art Glass in Everett. |
| History / Background: | |
| Medium: | Stained glass |
| Installation Date: | 1996 |
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