Sculptures, Plaques, Reliefs, Murals, and Fountains at USC

This selective listing starts in the center of campus, following north, and then south. In addition, there are separate listings of USC buildings and USC fountains. Do not reproduce information from this site without acknowledgement of the artists and their works, or of the authors of this site.

Central Campus Area:

• Roger Noble Burnham, "Tommy Trojan", 1930.

• Ronald Pekar, Traveler, 2010.

• Johan Caspar Lachne Gruenfeld, sculptures on top of Bovard Hall (an Italian renaissance-style building by John and Donald Parkinson, 1921)

• Bench near Bovard Hall.

• Founders plaque, Founders park between Bovard and Taper Hall for the Humanities.

• Christopher Janney, Sonic Forest, temporary installation, October 12-15, 2009, Between Bovard and Doheny buildings.

• Sculptural reliefs on the Gwynn Wilson Building (John Parkinson and Donald Parkinson, 1927)

• John Nava, The Trojan Family Tapestry, 2010. Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

• Is this a sculpture? A pedestal with lion heads in the Associates Park, between Bovard and the Physical Education Building.

• Memorial to Cesar Chavez, between Annenberg and Taper Hall for the Humanities.

• J. Seward Johnson, Summer Thinking. Founders Park, temporary installation, Fall 2007.

• J. Seward Johnson, So the Bishop Said to the Actress, 1981. Taper Hall for the Humanities, temporary installation, fall 2007.

• Merrell Gage, Bas reliefs on the Alan Hancock building, 1940. (C. Samuel Lunden; C. Raimond Johnson)

• Model of Velero III, east side of the Alan Hancock building.

• Christy Decker, Passages Collide as Knowledge Advances, 2007. Allan Hancock building, 4th floor.

• Judith Baca, La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra (The Memory of Our Land), 1996. Norman Topping Student Center. Removed in 2008.

• Works in the Norman Topping Student Center. Closed in 2008; replaced by the Campus Center, 2010.

• Emil Seletz, Norman Topping, 2010.

• Christine Mallouf and Larry Glenn, Trojan Angel or The Protector. Sponsored by Kelsey Family Foundation. Originally placed at the Norman Topping Student Center. Part of A Community of Angels project. September 2002. As of January 2003, the sculpture is positioned in Watt Hall. Removed in the mid-2000s.

• Martin Luther King Memorial plaque, 1998. Law Center.

• Fountain in front of the Law Center, Crocker Plaza.

• Fountain at Town and Gown.

• Little Chapel of Silence.

• Jaques Plaza, in front of the University Bookstore.

• Cromwell field entry landscaping.

• Bust of Albert Raubenheimer, Grace Ford Salvatori building.

Library Quadrangle

• Frederick Schweigardt, Youth Triumphant or "The Four Cornerstones of American Democracy" fountain. Dedicated in 1935. Alumni Park (in front of Doheny Memorial Library, a building designed in the tradition of Italian Romanesque by Cram & Ferguson and Samuel Lunden, 1932. A. E. Hanson, landscape architect.)

• McCarthy Quad between Leavey Library and Doheny Library. Includes details of the reflecting pool in front of the Leavey Library.

• The details of the Carolyn Craig Franklin Library Garden Courtyard, on the north side of Doheny Library

• John C. Argue Plaza (between Doheny and Alumni House)

• Petrified wood, class of 1887. East side of Doheny Memorial Library.

Von KleinSmid Center:

• Merrell Gage, Bust of Rufus Bernhard Von KleinSmid with accompanying eulogy by Norman Topping.

Garden on the east side of Taper Hall for the Humanities (Marsh, Smith, and Powell, architects):

• "Andres Bello, 1781-1865"

• "Trojan column"

Anna Bing Arnold Plaza and Sculpture Garden

• Inverted Fountain

• Reclining male nude

• Claire Falkenstein, "Continuum", 1976

• Jesse Corsaut, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, installed 2007.

• Anthony Amato, "Gregor Piatigorsky", 1978

• Dmitri Hadzi, "Hephaestus", 1977

• Miki Benoff, "Vista for a Rare Spirit", 1974

• Francisco Zuniga, Evelia de Pie, 1978. Gift to the School of Cinema.

• Sculpture of Frank Sinatra, Norris Cinema.

Athletics area

• Dann V. Angeloff, Yell King, 1956-57. Next of the track field (Cromwell field).

• USC Olympians, stellae, track field (Cromwell field).

• Ernie Shelton, The Wild Bunch, 2002. Heritage Hall.

• Robert D. Wood Plaza, Heritage Hall.

• Anthony D. Lazzaro Plaza, 1988.

• Marv Goux Gate.

• Zohrab Kaprelian, Kaprelian Hall.

North side of campus:

• J. Seward Johnson, Things to Do, 29th and Hoover, temporary installation, summer 2007.

• Fray Junipero Serra, Church at University Ave and 30th St.

• Fountain north of Jefferson, east of Hoover.

• Shriners monument, Shrine Auditorium, Jefferson boulevard.

• Dean and Jay Tschetter, external murals on Galen Center, 2006.

• Fountain at old campus entrance on 34th st.

• Gateway Column marking the old entrance to campus, on 34th street

• Aristides Burton Demetrios, "Generations" fountain and sculpture, installed 2009. West of Leavey Library, along 34th street.

• Stephanie Kleinman and Kirsten Moore, Scholar Angel, part of A Community of Angels project. September 2002. Removed in the mid-2000s.

• Douglas Fairbanks, Courtyard of the School of Cinematic Arts, installed 2009.

• Gavin Herbert Plaza, Fountain

• Panel of Church Fathers on the facade of University Church

• Lion fountain, University Church patio

School of Engineering:

• Fountain by Pascal. View of the Engineering School plaza, with the fountain in the background.

• Tau Beta Pi Association memorial to David M. Wilson

• Fountain at Tutor Hall, 2005.

• Sandro Chia, murals at the Viterbi Museum, Tutor Hall, 2005.

Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Harris Hall of Architecture and Fisher Art Gallery Sculpture Garden:

• Hoose Library of Philosophy

• Reliefs on Bridge Hall (John Parkinson and Donald Parkinson, 1928)

  Bloom Art Walk:

  • Michael Davis, George Tirebiter, 2006. Bloom Art Walk and Trousdale Parway.

  • Fountain at Pardee Plaza, leading to Bloom Art Walk. View of a plaza and of the fountain at Bloom Walk, north of Harris Hall.

  • Carl Cheng, Human Rock, 2006, deaccessioned 2008. Bloom Art Walk, between Harris and Mudd halls.

• John Frame, Sculpture in honor of George Boone, lawn south of Watt Hall.

• Mark Lere, Untitled Four, 1999. Lawn south of Watt Hall.

• Barse Miller, mural above entrance to Fisher Gallery

• Tile mural, Harris Hall (1930s)

• Historic information about the old Architecture building and the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library.

• George Gebhard, Cactus, 1996

• George Baker, MFA Fountain, 1959. No longer there.

• Jay Willis, "Chairman of the Board", 1986. Dismantled to exhibit Jenny Holzer's First Amendment in 1999 (see below).

• Woods Davy, Nuevo Kiora, 1987. Commissioned by the School of Fine Arts. In 1999 moved to another location near Harris and Watt halls.
  • A short biography of Woods Davy

• Robert Graham, Figures, 2006. Window of the clerestory, 3rd floor of Watt Hall.

• Edward Glauder, "Loop", 1986. Gift to the School of Fine Arts.

• Antoine Bourdelle, "Crouching Bather". 1983, probably recast from a 1910s original.

• Antoine Bourdelle, Hercules, 1909.

• Jenny Holzer, details of "The First Amendment", 1999. Text from the Fisher Gallery brochure, Jenny Holzer's Blacklist. See also "Jenny Holzer Sculpture to Convey Essence of First Amendment in Stone," USC Chronicle, October 25, 1999 and "Hollywood Sculpture Unveiled," Daily Trojan, November 18, 1999.

• Mark Lere, Untitled Four, 1999. Originally at the Staples Center, moved to USC in Spring 2007.

• Joel Tauber and Roski School of Fine Arts students, Sick-Amour: The USC Tree Baby Project, 2008.

• Sculpture, north side of Harris Hall (2/2000)

• Sculpture in the courtyard between Harris and Watt halls.

• Abstraction, south side of Harris Hall courtyard (6/2005)

• 125 anniversary fountain, Pardee Way entrance on Exposition boulevard. Dedicated 9/2005.

• Select fountains and sculptures at the Health Sciences Campus

Maintained by Ruth Wallach, USC Libraries. 8/2010