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Print Publications

Available for purchase via cash, check, or credit card.

  • In-person: Stop by the University Museums office, top floor of the Scheman Building during office hours.
  • Over-the-phone: Call 515.294.3342. A shipping & handling fee will be added: $5.50 for Explore Art on Campus at Iowa State University, $15 for Campus Beautiful, and $10 for all other publications.

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Pub Date   

Price

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Explore Art on Campus at Iowa State University: A NumbersAlive!® Multi-Media Family Book

by Dr. Rebecca Klemm, The Numbers Lady®

2023

$25.00

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Compelling Ground:
Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa

2021

$30.00

Now $22.50!

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Artists In Iowa: The First Century

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2019

$45.00

Now $33.75!

Description

 

 

 

 

Manuel Neri: Matters of Form & Construction

2017

$40.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Faces of Iowa State

2017

$10.00

Now $7.50!

Description

 

 

 

 

Amy N. Worthen: The World in Perspective
Prints and Drawings

By Lea Rosson DeLong and Amy N. Worthen

2017

$40.00

Description

 

 

 

 

NO FOOD NO DRINKS:
An Iowa State University Artful Adventure

Story and Illustrations by Chuck Richards

2016

Free PDF

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Campus Beautiful

2015

$100.00

Now $75.00!

Description

 

 

 

 

The Prints of J.N. Darling
3rd Edition Publication

By Amy Worthen

2014

$27.50

Description

 

 

 

 

The Land-Grant Act and the People's College:
Iowa State University

Edited by Allison Sheridan

2011

$38.00

Now $28.50!

Description

 

 

 

 

N.C. Wyeth's America in the Making

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2011

$20.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth and Byron Anderson sculpture garden publication cover

Realitès: The Lyric Sculpture of William King

2011

$5.00

Description

 

 

 

 

All the Evils publication cover

All the Evils...
Christian Petersen and the Art of War

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2009

$20.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Farm House publication cover

Farm House: College Farm to University Museum

By Mary E. Atherly

2009

$25.00

Description

 

 

 

 

BodyScapes & CounterPoints:
The Prints of Beej Nierengarten-Smith

By Susan M. Brown

2009

$10.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Priscilla Sage: 1958-2008 Fifty Years of Sculpting

By Jane Gilmor

2008

$25.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth and Byron Anderson sculpture garden publication cover

Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden

2007

$5.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Albert Paley: Portals and Gates publication cover

Albert Paley: Portals and Gates

By M. Jessica Rowe

2007

$35.00

Description

 

 

 

 

Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900 – 1934 publication cover

Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900-1934

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2007

$20.00

Description

 

 

 

 

When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow publication cover

When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow:
Grant Wood and Christian Petersen Murals

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2006

$55.00

Now $41.25!

Description

 

 

 

 

Grant Wood’s Main Street publication cover

Grant Wood's Main Street:
Art, Literature, and the American Midwest

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2004

$45.00

Description

 

 

 

 

University Museums: Collections Handbook publication cover

University Museums: Collections Handbook

Object Interpretations by Renee Thomason Senter

2000

$20.00 or

FREE with purchase of any other publication!

Description

 

 

 

 

Christian Petersen: Sculptor publication cover

Christian Petersen: Sculptor

By Dr. Lea Rosson DeLong

2000

$45.00

Description

 

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