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  Multiple Artists

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  East Village

  Shirley Wyrick

 1984  |  Long-Term Collection
  West Des Moines

  Doug Shelton

 1985  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Chaden Halfhill and others to be determined

 2010 ongoing  |  Archive Collection
  6th Avenue Corridor Project

  Kerry James Marshall

 July 2018  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Maya Lin

 1995-97  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Harry Donald Jones

 1941  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Christopher Bennett

 1994  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Viola Frey

 1993-95  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Ugo Rondinone

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Stuart Davis

 1955  |  Long-Term Collection
  Drake University

  Deborah Butterfield

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  ASPHATE & LETER91

 May 2015  |  Short-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Bruce Nauman

 1990  |  Long-Term Collection
  Des Moines Art Center

  Gary Hume

 2002  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Gary Hume

 2002  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Alex Brown

 2014  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Mitchell Squire

 2019  |  Short-Term Collection
  Bus Wrap #10: Multiple Black

  Jay Vigon

 2015  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Susan Chrysler White

 2016  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Larassa Kabel

 2016  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Brent Holland

 2017  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Jordan J. Weber

 2017  |  Archive Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Benjamin Gardner

 2017  |  Short-Term Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Nick Goettling

 2018  |  Short-Term Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Marianne Fairbanks

 2019  |  Short-Term Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Concetta Morales

 1993  |  Long-Term Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Hilde DeBruyne

 2008; installed 2013  |  Long-Term Collection
  West Des Moines

  Michael Pavlovsky

 1996  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Alice Aycock

 Concept Design, 2012  |  Archive Collection
  North Des Moines

  Lynn Basa

 2012  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Ivan Chermayeff

 1971  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  PAINTALLICA, an art collective

 Completed 13 August 2014; on view through 23 August 2014  |  Archive Collection
  Iowa State Fairgrounds

  Ronald Bladen

 1977  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Jack Heintz

 2015  |  Short-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  James Ellwanger

 2012  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Claes Oldenburg

 1979  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Pete P. Goché

 9/1/12  |  Archive Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Martin Puryear

 1990  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Eric Jean-Marie

 1995  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  STRETCH

 Date Unknown  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Milton Erwin Kahl

 1944  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  John Collier

 2011  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  David B. Dahlquist

 2002  |  Long-Term Collection
  Urbandale

  Huma Bhabha

 2023  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Cliff Garten

 2019  |  Long-Term Collection
  West Des Moines

  Jun Kaneko

 2013  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Watson Powell, Jr.

 Date Unknown  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Jun Kaneko

 Installed 2012  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Richard Serra

 1986  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Luther Utterback

 1979  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Fletcher Benton

 1988  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Jesús Bautista Moroles

 Date Unknown  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Calvin “Cal” F. Lewis, FAIA

 2001  |  Long-Term Collection
  Gray’s Lake Neighborhood

  Shirley Wyrick

 1987; 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  East Village

  William G. Tucker

 1985  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  David B. Dahlquist

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  David B. Dahlquist

 2007  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  TJ Moberg

 2010  |  Long-Term Collection
  Clive

  David B. Dahlquist

 2011  |  Long-Term Collection
  Greater Des Moines

  Mac Hornecker

 2005  |  Long-Term Collection
  Urbandale

  OYORAM

 2020  |  Long-Term Collection
  Oyoram Visual Artist Studio

  Sir Anthony Caro

 1986  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  David B. Dahlquist

 2002  |  Long-Term Collection
  Iowa State Fairgrounds

  Michael Stutz

 2007  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Ai Weiwei

 2015  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Chas Fagan

 2011  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  George Lundeen

 1994  |  Long-Term Collection
  Drake University

  Deborah Butterfield

 1989  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Dale Eldred

 1965  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  James Turrell

 1990  |  Archive Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Jesse Small

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Clive

  Edward Lee Hendricks

 1986  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Rebecca Eckstrand

 1983  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Alice Aycock

 2021  |  Long-Term Collection
  Liftoff

  Fred Torrey

 1961  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Jordan J. Weber

 2013  |  Archive Collection
  King Irving Neighborhood

  Robert Indiana

 1969-1999  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Carl Milles

 1949  |  Long-Term Collection
  Des Moines Art Center

  Tony Smith

 1961  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Jeffrey Abt

 1975  |  Long-Term Collection
  Waveland Park Neighborhood

  OYORAM

 2018  |  Archive Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Tom Sachs

 2007, fabricated in 2008 from an edition of 5 (5/5)  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Sol LeWitt

 1969  |  Archive Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Ugo Rondinone

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Ugo Rondinone

 2005  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Glenn Chamberlain

 1937  |  Long-Term Collection
  Woodland Heights

  George Verle Grooms

 1936  |  Long-Term Collection
  Woodland Heights

  Chris Vance

 2013  |  Short-Term Collection
  East Village

  Jaume Plensa

 2007  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Tony Cragg

 1989  |  Archive Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Olafur Eliasson

 2013  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  David B. Dahlquist

 2008  |  Long-Term Collection
  Urbandale

  Ron Dinsdale

 2011  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Jordan J. Weber

 2015  |  Short-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Cork Marcheschi

 1987  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Claes Oldenburg

 2001  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Judith Shea

 1990  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Mac Hornecker

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Clive

  Reed Madden Designs

 2013  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Mac Hornecker

 1996  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Peter Chinni

 1965  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Yayoi Kusama

 2014, fabricated 2018  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Sally Vagliano Pettus

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Gail Folwell

 2020  |  Long-Term Collection
  Gray’s Lake Neighborhood

  Doug Shelton

 1990  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Williem de Kooning

 1969-82  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  River Constellation Team

 2019  |  Long-Term Collection
  Gray’s Lake Neighborhood

  Multiple Artists

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Frank Hansen

 2011  |  Long-Term Collection
  East Village

  Scott Burton

 Designed 1985/1984, fabricated 1989-90/1992  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  James Ellwanger

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Robert Whicker

 2016  |  Short-Term Collection
  Capitol East Neighborhood

  Norie Sato

 2005  |  Long-Term Collection
  Ankney

  Harriet A. Ketcham

 1892  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Astrid Preston

 1992  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Christiane T. Martens

 1984  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Arnaldo Pomodoro

 1999  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Louise Bourgeois

 1997  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Richard Serra

 1989  |  Long-Term Collection
  Des Moines Art Center

  Robert Craig

 2000  |  Long-Term Collection
  West Des Moines

  Travis Rice

 8/1/13  |  Archive Collection
  Iowa State Fairgrounds

  Jim Campbell

 2016  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  M12 Collective

 On view 11-21 August 2016  |  Archive Collection
  Iowa State Fairgrounds

  Mark di Suvero

 1985  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Troy Corliss

 2012  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Siah Armajani

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Mags Harries

 2007  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Hilde DeBruyne

 2010  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Larassa Kabel

 2019  |  Long-Term Collection
  The Black Crown of Perpetual Loss

  Jon Turner

 1992  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Barri J. Lester

 2003  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  James Ellwanger

 Date Unknown  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  David B. Kraisler

 1991  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  Barry Flanagan

 1997  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Andy Goldsworthy

 2002  |  Long-Term Collection
  Des Moines Art Center

  Henry Moore

 1964-65  |  Long-Term Collection
  Des Moines Art Center

  David B. Dahlquist

 2013  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Cause Collective

 On view 28-29 September 2016  |  Archive Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Anna Gaskell

 11/1/06  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Joel Shapiro

 1985  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Ellsworth Kelly

 1994  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Luther Utterback

   |  Long-Term Collection
  Cheaton Park Neighborhood

  James Rosati

 1974  |  Long-Term Collection
  Drake University

  Joel Shapiro

 2001-2003  |  Long-Term Collection
  Principal Riverwalk

  Karl Gerhardt

 1890  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Keith Haring

 1989, fabricated 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Chris Vance

 2000  |  Short-Term Collection
  Drake University

  Chris Vance

 2017  |  Short-Term Collection
  Clive

  Christian Petersen

 1924  |  Long-Term Collection
  Greenwood Park

  Peter Marasco

 ca. 1972  |  Long-Term Collection
  Southside Des Moines

  Sheena Rose

 2020  |  In-Progress Collection
  North Des Moines

  Julius Schmidt

 1971  |  Archive Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Jennifer Leatherby

 2015  |  Short-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Evelyn Beatrice Longman

 1916  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Mark Kane

 2012  |  Short-Term Collection
  Ingersoll Neighborhood

  King Au

 2011  |  Short-Term Collection
  Waveland Park Neighborhood

  Richard Hunt

 2004  |  Long-Term Collection
  Southside Des Moines

  Pablo Picasso

 1959  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Mary Mattingly

 2015  |   Collection
  Pleasant Hill

  Sol LeWitt

 1989  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Sol LeWitt

 2007  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown

  Unknown Artist

 1879  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Edwin Howland Blashfield

 1905  |  Long-Term Collection
  State Capitol Grounds

  Sarah Grant

 2009  |  Long-Term Collection
  Clive

  Yoshitomo Nara

 2010  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Tony Smith

 1962, fabricated 2005  |  Long-Term Collection
  Pappajohn Sculpture Park

  Charles Henry Niehaus

 1925  |  Long-Term Collection
  Capitol Park

  Edward Lee Hendricks

 1983  |  Long-Term Collection
  American Enterprise Art Park

  jd Hansen

 2006  |  Long-Term Collection
  Other Public Art Downtown