Artworks in Iowa
Sculpture, murals and the outsized roadside piece you slow down for. Public work, standing where anyone can see it without paying to.
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351 artworks are published in Iowa. The list below holds the 182 best-documented.
- Buddy Holly Crash Site
- Thinker on a RockBuilt 1997
- Dance of the Cranes
- World's Largest Strawberry
- Ceres
- New Front Door
- WillyBuilt 2005
- Iowa Blue: The Urbane Chicken
- Air Spiral
- Voices of the Prairie I
- Circle of LifeBuilt 2013-09
- Regeneration
- In the MorningBuilt 1986
- John Wayne
- Made of Money
- River ConstellationBuilt 2019
- ShadowBuilt 1995
- Quantum LeafBuilt 2005
- AAOSE Site
- Breaking Barriers
- Family at Corner
- Untitled
- Inuksuit #1
- Landscape Piece #1
- Untitled Flower
- Lift Off
- AAOSE Site
- Reclining FigureBuilt 1982
- Blue Heron with Sunfish
- Hydraulic Jump 2
- ExpansionBuilt 2012
- SpiderBuilt 1997
- Metal Flower
- Heartbeat of the Heartland
- A Thousand Acres
- Iron Tree TrunkBuilt 2015
- PlantoirBuilt 2001
- Crescendo
- Granite Tree
- Civil War Statue
- Dr. Norman BorlaugBuilt 2011
- A World to Teach
- In Transit
- Space Theme
- American Dreamer
- Inuksuk
- Weatherdance FountainBuilt 1999
- Heartbeat of the Heartland
- Seating for EightBuilt 1990
- OttumwaBuilt 1978
- Monolith
- UntitledBuilt 1994
- Alidade
- Leap
- Wings
- MOONRISE. east. januaryBuilt 2005
- Cyclone Twister
- Construction
- Window on a Blue Garden
- T8Built 1985
- Into the Maelstrom
- Umbrellas
- A Veteran’s Prayer for Eternal Peace
- Riding High
- Ice Blue
- Trumpet
- Five Stones - One TreeBuilt 1979
- Gymnast IIIBuilt 1985
- Pioneer Statuary Group
- Column of Change
- SwirlBuilt 2016
- Bellevue Lions
- John Ruan Sr.Built 2011
- Cy the Dentist Guy
- Ames Mural
- Untitled (Three Dancing Figures, version C)Built 2009
- BluestemBuilt 2018
- Prairie Breeze Bench
- Snake, Skull, and Roses
- OrderBuilt 1989
- UntitledBuilt 2003
- Air Bass Guitar
- AAOSE Site
- Orange Dragon
- Folded Circle Zig
- Prairie Song
- Wounded
- Three Way Piece No.1: PointsBuilt 1965
- Man and PegasusBuilt 1949
- Path of PeaceBuilt 2011
- Protect and Serve Cy
- JunoBuilt 1989
- Living, Flowing, Ever Changing
- Dance of the Prairie Dawn
- Rollic
- Cosmic Seed
- To Dorothy
- AAOSE Site
- Paddlewheel
- Richard Morgen Flowers
- Modular PieceBuilt 1969
- LOVE
- Silly Monsters
- Panoramic awareness pavilionBuilt 2013
- Animal PyramidBuilt 1990
- Statue of Liberty
- Metal Monarch
- Just Between Thieves
- Crusoe UmbrellaBuilt 1979-11-27
- Power Tennis
- Whirlwind
- Seat/Leg TableBuilt 1987
- AAOSE Site
- Barbara’s Portal
- UntitledBuilt 1985
- Statue of Liberty
- White GhostBuilt 2010
- AASOE Site
- Eternal FlameBuilt 2009
- Improbable Balance
- From the River
- Five Plate PentagonBuilt 1986
- MOONRISE. east. augustBuilt 2006
- AAOSE Site
- To Wing
- XII
- Post BalzacBuilt 1990
- Hayden Fry
- The Theater
- UntitledBuilt 1974
- AASOE Site
- DecoyBuilt 1990
- Heartbeat Of The heartland
- MarriageBuilt 1989
- Voices of the Prairie II
- 2RhinosBuilt 2013
- Cy-House Rock!
- Red
- NomadeBuilt 2007
- Balance
- Spectral LiberationBuilt 1984
- Mines of Spain
- Cardinal and Flower Mural
- Iowa Farm Mural
- Back of a Snowman (White)Built 2002
- Sphere Within a Sphere
- Bunny
- Harmony in Light
- Easy Peasy Mural
- Cow and Calf Sculpture
- Columnar
- Pocahontas Statue
- Grow
- Origami Cranes
- AAOSE Site
- WOW
- Tree of Life
- Quimby Centenial Train Mural
- Dephinus
- Back of a Snowman (Black)Built 2002
- Joy of MusicBuilt 1994
- Art Gallery
- General Samuel Curtis Statue
- I Will
- The Gateway ColossusBuilt 2012
- Succulent Bloom
- A Monumental JourneyBuilt 2018
- Primavera III
- Spikey Smooth
- Bellevue Lions
- Moon Rising
- Conversations
- Double NicheBuilt 1979
- Colorful Chalk Transformer Box
- Cynthia Duff Gateway A
- Purple Dragon
- Jack Trice
- air gets into everything even nothingBuilt 2006
- Miffy FountainBuilt 2007
- Kiosks
- Flying Home
- Ancient ForestBuilt 2009