Art & Artifacts: Our Cup Runneth Over by John Clayson Snook

My Cup Runneth Over (1942) by John Clayson Snook

Location: Large mural in the Hewes Library central stairwell

My Cup Runneth Over was donated to Monmouth College by the artist in 1942. The mural was originally installed on campus in the old Carnegie Library building. In 1990, the old library building was renovated and renamed Poling Hall. The mural was removed and placed in storage and subsequently “re-discovered,” restored, and hung in Hewes Library ten years later.

The artist’s wife, Katharine Marie Ramsey, was a 1935 graduate of Monmouth College. The church in the background depicts the Presbyterian Seminary in Oxford, OH that was later to become Monmouth College.