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| Name: | Edmonds Art Festival |
| Artist / Description: | Lois Thayer |
| History / Background: | Watercolor painting donated by artist, owned by City of Edmonds. |
| Medium: | Watercolor painting |
| Installation Date: | 1975 |
| Funding Source: | Gift from artist. |
| Name: | Inaugural poster: Center for the Book, Library of Congress |
| Artist / Description: | Lance Hidy |
| History / Background: | Owned by City of Edmonds |
| Medium: | Poster |
| Installation Date: | 1984 |
| Funding Source: | Gift of Mary Miner |
| Name: | Oh the Places You Will Go |
| Artist / Description: | Photographer Tiffany Meyer |
| History / Background: | Winner of the Everybody Reads Photo Contest sponsored by the Edmonds Arts Commission 2008. |
| Medium: | Photo |
| Installation Date: | 2008 |
| Funding Source: | First Place purchase award |
| Name: | Puppet theater for children to use for creative play |
| Artist / Description: | Designed and built by Tom Williams, painted by Cheri O'Brien. |
| History / Background: | Brass plaque states: This gift to the Edmonds Library is dedicated to Bernie and Joan Hoover with love from their family. |
| Medium: | Painted wood with folk art decoration |
| Installation Date: | December 27, 2006 |
| Funding Source: | Family of Bernie and Joan Hoover. |
| Name: | Untitled |
| Artist / Description: | by Molnar |
| History / Background: | Owned by City of Edmonds. |
| Medium: | Oil painting |
| Installation Date: | |
| Funding Source: | Gift in Memory of Walter and Eugenia Bashaw. |
| Name: | Water Lilies |
| Artist / Description: | Artist unknown. |
| History / Background: | Owned by City of Edmonds. |
| Medium: | Oil |
| Installation Date: | |
| Funding Source: | Donated by Warren Sherwood in memory of Margaret Sherwood. |
| Name: | “Woman of the Forest,” “The Sun,” and “Mountain Hawk” |
| Artist / Description: | Artist Alfred Widmer was born in Austria and moved to Washington in 1958 where he taught art at Edmonds Community College in the late 1970s. He had a strong interest in Northwest Coast Native American Art and studied traditional techniques. |
| History / Background: | Displayed on wall above main entrance to the library. The three spirit masks are made of carved cedar, with cedar bark and hammered copper and paint details. |
| Medium: | Carved wooden masks |
| Installation Date: | 1991 |
| Funding Source: | The purchase was made with Mayor/City Council funds in 1991 as a Centennial purchase and the artist was selected for the commission at the 1990 Edmonds Arts Festival where he exhibited a carved cedar box. |
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