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The original works of art are placed on display at the Library during the month of December in the year they are selected. The following year they are added to the Library's "Art-to-Go" collection and can be borrowed for two months for home or office use.

Past winners of the Library's Art Purchase Prize are displayed below. You can check the availability of an item for checkout by clicking the "Check Status" link by each photo.

2007

Because Of You
by Emily Martin

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Corn With Bell Peppers
by Alyssa Madison

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Curiosity Overcomes Fear
by Wilford Yoder

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Green Scale #2
by Jonathan Johnson

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Hubert Sumlin At The Bradford Hotel
by David Herwaldt

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Joy
by Jean Berry

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Makeshift Shower
by Les Bohlen

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Steady
by Amanda Murphy

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Tomatoes With Peppers
by Alyssa Madison

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Yellowstone
by Nicole Stofer

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2006

After The Storm
by Nancy Lindsay

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Cherry Salsa
by Lauretta Kelley

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Dan
by Elizabeth Roberts

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December Day
by R. D. Sjolund

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For Men
by Rachael Ayers

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Leaf Harmony I
by Peter Rodd

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Past Confrontation
by Christina McClelland

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The Vow
by Carol Carlson

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Walk With It
by Christina McClelland

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World Map
by Elaine Beck

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2005

Deep Light
by Miriam Alarcon-Avila

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Iowa Exit 211
by Tom Langdon

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Kent Park Autumn Reflection
by Han-In Huang

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Omen
by Breanne Hunter

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Pearl
by John Posey

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The Big Caulifower
by Suzanne Aunan

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2004

Amish Oat Shocks
by Wilford Yoder

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Iowa Book
by Suzanne McNiel

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Pearls Of Wisdom
by Suzanne McNiel

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Rehearsal for Duarte
by Luke Granfield

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Soul food
by Kay Irelan

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Summer Prairie
by Claudia McGee

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The Mad Pot-Ohr of Biloxi
by Nicholas Naughton

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Vermeer
by Daryn Stier

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2003

261
by Julia Byerly

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Carta
by Kim Ambriz

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Collective Winds
by Chris Potsy Lahti

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Coneflower
by Libby Logsden

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Dreams Of Flight
by Jason Moore

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Maiden
by Casy james Kasparek

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My Lovely Dog
by Karina Cutler-Lake

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Record Landing
by Diana Behl

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Untitled
by David Heffner

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Upper Right
by Amanda Hess

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2002

A Hand On A Hand
by Chris Carman

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China Shoes
by Sandra Dyas

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Finding A Home Hobbie Kit
by Matt Hopson Walker

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Intermission Intervals
by Diane Behl

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Pumpkin Eater
by Philip Kirk

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Red Tree At Ellis
by Sharon Burns Knutson

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Still Life II
by Chen Wang

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Surveillance
by Jason Moore

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Untitled Self Portrait(What you see)
by Ken Walker

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2001

Adrian Revisited
by Jason Urban

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American Standard
by Amze Emmons

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Baby Chicks
by Truc Deegan

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Bars And Buttons
by Patti Zwick

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Everybody In The World Likes Sushi!
by R. L. Tillman

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Girl On The Roof
by Brenda Salat

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Pacific Sunset
by Ken Walker

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Wings
by Nichole Maury

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2000

Community
by Jeremy Chen

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Death And The Single Girls
by Wanda Ewing

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East Fairchild Street No. 1
by Philip Kirk

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La Semilla
by Kay Irelan

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October Blue #1
by Amy Dobrian

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Reverie
by Sandy Dyas

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Wildweeds In The Dusk
by Han-In Huang

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1999

"No-it's-Iowa"
by Patricia Koza

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Bourbon Stree, new Orleans
by Kathy Wachel

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Fiesta
by Patti O'Neill

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Man Behind A Screen
by Jason Urban

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The Opera
by James Kleckner

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Untitled
by Shannon Kennedy

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Vincent
by Steve Erickson

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1998

In Carol's Garden
by Susan Coleman

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Spring Sun Melting Winter Snow
by Marcia Wegman

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Study For Requiem, 1997
by Craig Albright

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Tree Diva
by Michael Kreiser

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Umbra
by Corrine Smith

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Untitled
by Judy Frauenholtz

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1997

Ghost Birch
by Amy dobrian

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Nine-patch Night
by Jenaean Arnold

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Quiet Porch
by Gesine Janzen

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Spring At The Grant Wood House
by Richard Houston

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Velvet Night
by Kay Irelan

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1996

Freedom Of Speech Abstraction #11
by Keith Fox

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Inescapable Geography
by Victoria Kostadinova

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Mildred Sleeps Over
by Judith Miller

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Spanish Waterfront
by Robert Hansen

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1995

Do Zen
by Gerald Stevenson

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Lifeline Series
by Sue Hettmansperger

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Perrito Con Cinta
by Diolanda Barrera

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Walk To School
by Gesine Janzen

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1994

Gerata's Landscape
by Kay Irelan

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Untitled #2
by Nana Burford

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Untitled #3
by Nana Burford

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1993

A Striped Affair
by Carmen Grier

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I P G #10
by J. Carlos Ferguson

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Imaginary Landscape
by Paul Hein

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Through The Narrows
by Shirley Wyrick

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1992

Family Trees, Dining Room
by Lisa Schoenfielder

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Hear The Waves
by Anne Perkins

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Untitled #2
by Alicia Starr

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View From The Studio
by Debra M. Conklin

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1991

Books
by Ellikko Shimosato-Evans

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Burgess Shale
by Deanne Wortman

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Love Letters 1 And 2
by Susan Pauley

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1990

Ikat vignette, aqua
by Astrid Hilger Bennett

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Leaves
by Douglas Grace

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No Parking
by Douglas Grace

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1989

Fall Fragments III
by Jan Friedman

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Pike
by David Luck

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The circus
by Linda Emmerson

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1988

Driver
by Lisa Schoenfielder

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Maiden Voyage
by Constance Alyce Roberts

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Mike Submerged
by Constance Alyce Roberts

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Zhong Kui
by Lai Yi Bin

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1987

Al E. Gator And His Bride
by Charles Adolph Barth

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Japanese Poet
by James Ochs

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Untitled. 1985
by Cheryl Jacobsen

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Untitled. No. 1
by Randall Tosh

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Vanitas I
by Ina Loewenberg

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1986

Cornfield, Johnson County, Iowa
by Amy Lilienfeld

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She Was A Lady In Waiting
by Emily Martin

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1985

Five Old Dead Teachers--Five Old Dead Pequins
by Sharon Burns

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1984

Oriental Poppy #28
by Mark Trade

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Oriental Poppy #3
by Mark Trade

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1982

Combo-Combo
by Barbara Manager

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1979

Landscape III
by Donald Furst

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1978

Winter
by Donald Furst

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