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Explore over 700 works of art that comprise MIT’s Student Lending Art Collection. Works in this collection are made available to students each September, which they can live with for the school year through the Student Lending Art Program.

Claes Oldenburg

Soft Scissors, 1967
A pair of scissors with both half separated.

Lowell Nesbitt

City Center Drama Company, 1968
A set of winding stairs in black and white with heavy shading.

Yoshisuke Funasaka

Lemons, 1973
Black rectangle on the left and a red large rectangle on the right with the outline of a yellow lemon where the two rectangles meet.

R. B. Kitaj

John Wieners, 1969
A man from the shoulders up in a blue shirt on the left and a black box on the right with white legs inside.

Jack Bush

Low Sun, 1971
Grey background with red semicircle brushstroke on the top and yellow, blue, and green horizontal strokes going from the left lower corner up to the right.

Lowell Nesbitt

Iris, 1971
Detailed view of an iris flower with yellow petals  and dark green and black leaves on a maroon background.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

League of Women Voters, 1969
Ten rows of 5 squares that fade from light green to red from left to right.

Allan D'Arcangelo

Megaphones, 1970
Striped three dimensional lines that all meet in the center to form an asterisk shape.

Robert Indiana

Love, 1968
Print with the word Love spelled in bold letters with the L and O on top of the V and E on a green and blue background.

Robert Rauschenberg

Paris Review Poster, not dated
Collage like print with a blue rectangle on the left, an image of soldiers on a shore on the left and a red rectangle with a nude woman facing any from the camera on the right.

Yukihisa Isobe

Untitled, 1965
Rows of repeating shield like shapes with different patterns on each.

Victor Vasarely

Untitled, 1966
Print with ovals and circles of varying sizes that have lines running through them and the background to create an illusion.

Jesse Reichek

Untitled, 1964
Two abstract shapes on top of one another outlines in wavy black lines.

Adolph Gottlieb

Red Ground, Maroon Disk, 1966
Red background with a dark red circle near the top and a black blotch of ink splattered below.

Thomas George

Madaket, 1962
Gray sketch of a small boat on the shore of a wavy body of water and two large holes in the sky.

Jack Youngerman

Indigo White, 1963
Abstract shape with jagged edges on a white background.

Otto Piene

Untitled, 1965
Black circles in a row on the upper third of the page with white in the middle and a light gray outline.

Alexander Calder

Poissant Sans Ancré, 1965
Orange fish in the lower left corner swimming towards a large anchor on a black chain that has blue and yellow links on the end of it.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Composition I, 1965
Hundreds of repeating diamond shapes with circles at the intersections that create an illusion.

Josef Albers

Opalescent, 1965
Dark yellow background with a light yellow square and a smaller white square inside.

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The Student Lending Art Program is a unique and popular MIT tradition that allows MIT students to borrow original works of art from the List Visual Arts Center. 

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