Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection

In 1957, the board of trustees of Western Washington University established a policy that encouraged public art on the campus.{{cite book|title=Exploring Best Practices for Building a University's Public Art Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNpJzbEYRGEC&pg=PA94|year=2008|publisher=ProQuest|isbn=978-0-549-60866-0|pages=94–}} The first work added to the collection, commissioned by Paul Thiry,{{cite web|last1=Farr|first1=Sheila|title=Beautiful burden|url=http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/beautiful-burden/|website=The Seattle Times|access-date=13 April 2016}} was James Fitzgerald's Rain Forest, in 1960.

Campus architect Ibsen Nelsen commissioned Isamu Noguchi's "Skyviewing Sculpture" in the 1960s.

Funding for the acquisition of the works in the collection came from a combination of sources that included the state's one percent for art law, The Virginia Wright Fund,{{cite web|title=Founding the Washington Art Consortium's Original Collection|url=http://www.washingtonartconsortium.org/About/Founding-the-Consortium|website=The Washington Art Consortium|access-date=13 April 2016}} and the National Endowment for the Arts

{{cite web|title=WWU's Outdoor Sculpture Collection Turns 50|url=http://windowmagazine.org/window/index.php?section=Stories&id=172|website=Window Magazine|access-date=12 April 2016}}

The collection is overseen by the director of the university's Western Art Gallery. As of 2015, the director of the collection is Hafþór Yngvason.{{cite web|title=Reykjavik Art Museum Director takes helm at Western Gallery in Sept. 2015|url=http://www.bellingham.org/press-releases/reykjavik-art-museum-director-takes-helm-at-western-gallery-in-sept-2015/|website=Bellingham.org|access-date=13 April 2016}}

1. "Rain Forest (1959)," by James FitzGerald
2. "Totem (1962)," by Norman Warsinske
3. "Wall Relief" (1962), by Norman Warsinske
4. "Scepter" (1966), by Steve Tibbetts
5. "Sky Viewing Sculpture" (1969), by Isamu Noguchi
6. "Steam Work for Bellingham-II, by Robert Morris
7. "Alphabeta Cube" (1972), by Fred Bassetti
8. "The Man Who Used to Hunt Cougars for Bounty" (1972), by Richard Beyer
9. "Log Ramps" (1974; 1987), by Lloyd Hamrol
10. "For Handel" (1975), by Mark di Suvero
11. "India" (1976), by Anthony Caro
12. "Sasquatch" (1976), by Rod Pullar
13. "Flank II" (1978), by Mia Westerlund Roosen
14. "Garapata" (1978), by John Keppelman
15. "Mindseye" (1978),{{cite web|last1=Balmer|first1=Dan|title=Sculpting Excellence On Western's Campus|url=http://www.westernfrontonline.net/features/article_4fd66c4c-dec9-5c6b-9906-8d81a59c7b82.html|website=The Western Front Online|access-date=13 April 2016}} by Mark di Suvero
16. "Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings" (1978),{{cite web|title=Construction, dedication of 'Rock Rings' sculpture|url=https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/photos/construction-dedication-of-rock-rings-sculpture|website=Western Washington University|access-date=13 April 2016}}{{cite book|author1=Anna Maria Guasch Ferrer|author2=Nasheli Jimenez Del Val|title=Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-KmBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72|date=17 October 2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6996-6|pages=72–}} by Nancy Holt
17. "Curve / Diagonal" (1979), by Robert Maki
18. "Normanno Column" (1980), by Beverly Pepper
19. "Normanno Wedge" (1980), by Beverly Pepper
20. "Wright's Triangle" (1980), by Richard Serra
21. "Untitled Box" (1982), by Donald Judd
22. "Bayview Station" (1987), by George Trakas
23. "The Islands of the Rose Apple Tree Surrounded by the Oceans of the World for You, Oh My Darling" (1987), by Alice Aycock
24. "Two-part Chairs, Right Angle Version (A Pair)" (1987), by Scott Burton
25. "Untitled" (1989), by Ulrich Rückriem
26. "Untitled" (1990), by Meg Webster
27. "Manus" (1994), by Magdalena Abakanowicz
28. "Feats of Strength" (1999), by Tom Otterness
29. "Stadium Piece" (1999), by Bruce Nauman
30. "Bigger Big Chair" (2006), by David Ireland
31. "Burning Island" (2014), by Keaton Martin{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
32. "Nooksack Middle Fork" (2016),{{cite web|last1=Bikman|first1=Margaret|title=New public art by Claude Zervas at WWU|url=http://www.bellinghamherald.com/entertainment/article51370735.html|website=The Bellingham Herald|access-date=13 April 2016}} by Claude Zevas

• Public Art

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• [https://westerngallery.wwu.edu/sculpture.shtml Official site]

Category:1960 establishments in Washington (state)

Category:Outdoor sculptures in Washington (state)

Category:Sculpture collections