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(Shidler College of Business)
Bamboo Forest
painted mural, Padraic Shigetani, 1978.
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(Shidler College of Business 2nd floor lanai)
Nth Power, steel, Charles W. Watson, 1971.
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(Queen Lili‘uokalani Center for
Student Services)
Mind & Heart - metal, Frank Sheriff, 1995.
Spirit of Loyalty - cast glass, Rick Mills, 1995.
VVV - copper, Bumpei Akaji, 1995.
These three works on the second floor honor the Varsity Victory Volunteers, which were UH students who served the US Army during World War II.
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(Varney Circle)
Varney Circle Fountain
At its center is a fountain named in honor of a teacher from the Normal School.
The School existed in the late 1800s to early 1900s before a merger with the University in 1931.
The fountain was one of the first to incorporate Hawaiian mythological figures into its architecture; the incorporation of such images was quite the controversy at the time.
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(Hamilton Library entrance)
Shinto koma-inu, anonymous, ca. 1924.
The koma-inu (lion-dogs) were brought from Japan to front the Shinto Inari Shrine on King Street. The koma-inu were given to the University in 1942.
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(Hamilton Library plaza)
Epitaph
bronze, steel, and granite, Harold Tovish, 1970.
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(John F. Kennedy Theatre/Lawn)
Hawai‘i Peace Memorial, granite, Koji, 1986.
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(Keller Hall)
Untitled
stained glass, Art Professor Murray Turnbull and Phyllis Turnbull, 1959.
Above the lobby's main entrance to the hall is a huge stained glass window.
The best vantage point is from the inside.
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(Art Building)
The Fourth Sign,
metal, Tony Smith, 19xx.
A representation of Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac, it crouches next to the building on the lawn adjacent to the McCarthy Mall.
Smith, a well-known American sculptor, gifted this massive sculpture to the University.
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