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The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is one of the principal U.S.

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s, with

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sculptures Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in

St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...

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, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.Saint Louis Art Museum Visitor Guide (2007) In addition to the featured exhibitions, the museum offers rotating exhibitions and installations. These include the ''Currents'' series, which features contemporary artists, as well as regular exhibitions of new media art and works on paper.

History

The museum was founded in 1879 as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within

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.''Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection'' (2004), p. 8 It was housed in a building commissioned by

Wayman Crow Wayman Crow (March 7, 1808 – May 10, 1885) was one of the founders of Washington University, a St. Louis businessman, and a politician. Early life Born in Hartford, Kentucky on March 7, 1808, Crow was the youngest of eight children. His paren ...

as a memorial to his son, Wayman Crow Jr., and designed by Boston architects Peabody and Stearns for 19th and Lucas Place (now Locust Street). The school, led by director

Halsey Ives Halsey Cooley Ives (27 October 1847 – 5 May 1911) was the founding director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts.Stevens, Walter B. Page 7 The institution later became two distinct bodies; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Washingto ...

, educated two generations of St. Louis artists and craftspeople, and offered studio and art history classes supported by a museum collection. After the closing of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the museum and school moved from downtown to one of the few permanent remnants of the fair, the Palace of Fine Arts. The building was designed by

Cass Gilbert Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas and ...

, who took inspiration from the

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in Rome, Italy.''Saint Louis Art Museum, An Architectural History'' (1987), p. 8 Ives introduced a bill into the General Assembly for an art tax to support the maintenance of the museum. The bill was approved by the citizens of Saint Louis by a nearly 4-to-1 margin. However, the city's controller refused to distribute the tax to the museum's board of control, as it was not a municipal entity and so had no right to tax money. The controller's position was upheld in 1908 by the

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. This caused the formal separation of the museum from the university in 1909, a split which was the beginning of three civic institutions: * a newly created, public City Art Museum, to remain in the Palace of Fine Arts, the organization which evolved into the Saint Louis Art Museum; an organizing board was assigned to take control in 1912. * the

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the university's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, it ...

affiliated with the private Washington University, whose collection was lent to the City Art Museum for several years, and now part of the

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* the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, also part of Washington University. In 1905 Ives had been immediately succeeded as director by Edmund H. Wuerpel; as of September 1909 Wuerpel advertised classes at Skinker and Lindell. Wuerpel remained director until his retirement in 1939. The school is now also part of the

. The building at 19th and Lucas Place fell into disrepair, and was eventually demolished in 1919. During the 1950s, the museum added an extension to include an

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for films, concerts and lectures. In 1971, efforts to secure the museum's financial future led voters in St. Louis City and County to approve the creation of the

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(ZMD). This expanded the tax base for the 1908 tax to include St. Louis County.Saint Louis Art Museum, An Architectural History, (1987), Page 26 In 1972, the museum was again renamed, to the Saint Louis Art Museum. Today, the museum is supported financially by the tax, donations from individuals and public associations, sales in the Museum Shop, and foundation support.

Expansion

Plans to expand the museum, which existed in the 1995 Forest Park Master Plan and the museum's 2000 Strategic Plan, began in earnest in 2005, when the museum board selected the British architect Sir David Chipperfield to design the expansion; Michel Desvigne was selected as landscape architect. The St. Louis-based firm,

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(HOK) was the architect of record to work with the construction team. On November 5, 2007, museum officials released the design plans to the public and hosted public conversations about those plans. A model of the new building was displayed in the museum's Sculpture Hall throughout the construction project. In 2008, citing the declining state of the economy, the museum announced that it would delay the start of the expansion, whose cost was then estimated at $125 million. Construction began in 2009; the museum remained open.Javier Pes (June 20, 2013)
A ‘quiet and reserved’ new wing for Saint Louis Art Museum
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''. The expansion added more than of gallery space, including an underground garage, within the lease lines of the property. Money for the project was raised through private gifts to the capital campaign from individuals, foundations and corporations, and from proceeds from the sale of tax-exempt bonds. The fundraising campaigned covered the $130-million cost of construction and a $31.2 million increase to the museum's endowment to support incremental costs of operating the larger facility. The expanded facility opened in the summer of 2013.

Collection

The collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum contains more than 34,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present. The collection is divided into nine areas: :# American :#

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and Egyptian :#

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Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

:# Asian :#

Decorative Arts ] The decorative arts are arts or crafts whose object is the design and manufacture of objects that are both beautiful and functional. It includes most of the arts making objects for the interiors of buildings, and interior design, but not usual ...

and Design :# Art of Europe, European to 1800 :# Islamic :# Modern and

Contemporary Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...

:# Prints,

Drawings Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, c ...

, and

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The modern art collection includes works by the European masters

Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...

Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

, Picasso,

Corrado Giaquinto Corrado Giaquinto (8 February 1703 – 18 April 1766) was an Italian Rococo painter. Early training and move to Rome He was born in Molfetta. As a boy he apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, (c1667–1725), escaping the rel ...

, Giambattista Pittoni and

Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...

. The museum's particularly strong collection of 20th-century German paintings includes the world's largest

Max Beckmann Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s ...

collection, which includes '' Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery''. In recent years, the museum has been actively acquiring post-war German art to complement its Beckmanns, such as works by

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary Germa ...

Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 – 7 March 1997) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. Kippenb ...

Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s ...

, and Anselm Kiefer. The collection also includes Chuck Close's ''Keith'' (1970). The collections of

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and

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works, as well as handwoven Turkish

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, are among the finest in the world. The museum holds the Egyptian

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''Amen-Nestawy-Nakht'', and two mummies on loan from Washington University. Its collection of American artists includes the largest U.S.-museum collection of paintings by

George Caleb Bingham George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". Initially a Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legislature before the American C ...

. The collection contains at least six pieces that Nazis confiscated from their own museums as degenerate.Hunn, David. "How a French masterpiece stolen by Nazis came to St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 22, 2014 These include

’s “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery” which came to the museum through a New York art dealer,

Curt Valentin Curt Valentin (5 October 1902, Hamburg, Germany – 19 August 1954, Forte dei Marmi, Italy) was a German-Jewish art dealer known for handling modern art, particularly sculpture, and works classified as "degenerate" and stolen from European museums b ...

, who specialized in Nazi confiscations, and Matisse's “Bathers with a Turtle” which

Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer ( ; born Pulitzer József, ; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the '' St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and the ''New York World''. He became a leading national figure in ...

purchased at the Galerie Fischer auction held in the Grand Hôtel National, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 30, 1939. In the context of the museum's 2013 expansion, British artist

Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Early life Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire on 26 Ju ...

created ''Stone Sea'', a site-specific work for a narrow space between the old and new buildings. Twenty-five tightly packed, ten-foot-high arches made of native limestone rise in a sunken courtyard. The artist was inspired by the fact that the sedimentary rock was formed when the region was a shallow sea in Prehistoric times. In 2021, the museum received a promised gift of 22 paintings and sculptures from the collection of the American curator and philanthropist Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the widow of the media heir Joseph Pulitzer Jr. The donation includes works by 17 European and American artists, including

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, Georges Braque, Constantin Brâncuși, Joan Miró,

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. Early in his five decade career, muralist David Siquieros described him as one of "the most promising ...

Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, c ...

and others. File:Hans Holbein the Younger - Mary, Lady Guildford (Saint Louis Art Museum).JPG, Hans Holbein the Younger, ''Mary, Lady Guildford'', 1527 File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - Judgment of Paris.jpg,

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is kno ...

, ''Judgment of Paris'', 1530 File:Portrait of Anne Stafford.jpg, Ambrosius Benson, ''Portrait of Anne Stafford'', 1535 File:El Greco - St. Paul, 1598–1600.jpg, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), ''St. Paul'', 1598–1600 File:Bartolomeo Manfredi - Apollo and Marsyas - 62-2004 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Bartolomeo Manfredi Bartolomeo Manfredi (baptised 25 August 1582 – 12 December 1622) was an Italian painter, a leading member of the Caravaggisti (followers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) of the early 17th century. Life Manfredi was born in Ostiano, nea ...

, ''Apollo and Marsyas'', 1616–20 File:Artemisia Gentileschi - Danaë - 93-1986 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Artemisia Gentileschi, ''Danaë'', 1620 File:Nicolas Tournier - Banquet Scene with a Lute Player.jpg,

Nicolas Tournier Nicolas Tournier (baptised 12 July 1590d. before February 1639)Grove Art Online: "Nicolas Tournier". was a French Baroque painter. Born in Montbéliard, he followed the profession of his father, André Tournier, "a Protestant painter from Besan� ...

, ''Banquet Scene with a Lute Player'', 1625 File:Rembrandt van Rijn - The Windmill.jpg,

Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consi ...

, ''The Windmill'', 1641 File:Pieter Claesz - Still Life - 141-1922 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Pieter Claesz Pieter Claesz (c. 1597 – 1 January 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. Biography He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, wher ...

, ''Still Life'', 1643 File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a Woman - 272-1955 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Frans Hals, ''Portrait of a Woman'', 1650–52 File:Corrado Giaquinto - St. Helena and the Emperor Constantine Presented to... - 31-1963 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

, ''The Virgin presents Saint Helena and Constantine to the Trinity'', 1741–42 File:John Singleton Copley - Thaddeus Burr - 174-1951 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, John Singleton Copley,''Thaddeus Burr'', 1758–60 File:Jean Etienne Liotard - Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg, Formerly attributed to

Jean-Étienne Liotard Jean-Étienne Liotard (; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey. A Huguenot of French origin and citizen of the ...

, ''Portrait of a young woman'', 18th century File:Caspar David Friedrich - Sunburst in the Riesengebirge - 1-2019 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Caspar David Friedrich, ''Sunburst in the Riesengebirge'', 1835 File:Jean-François Millet - Madame Valmont - 76-1954 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism ...

, ''Madame Valmont'', 1841 File:George Caleb Bingham - The Wood-Boat - 14-1951 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

, ''The Wood-Boat'', 1850 File:George Caleb Bingham - The Verdict of the People - 45-2001 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

, '' The Verdict of the People'', 1854–55 File:Albert Bierstadt - Surveyor’s Wagon in the Rockies - 158-1953 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not ...

, ''Surveyor’s Wagon in the Rockies'', 1859 File:Édouard Manet - The Reader - 254-1915 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Bo ...

, ''The Reader'', 1861 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Léonard Renoir, The Artist’s Father - 37-1933 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Léonard Renoir, The Artist’s Father'', 1869 File:Winslow Homer - The Country School (1871).jpg,

Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in ...

, ''The Country School'', 1871 File:Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - The Beach, Étretat - 63-1932 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, ''The Beach, Étretat'', 1872 File:Claude Monet - Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois - 218-1975 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...

, ''Rocks at Belle-Isle, Port-Domois'', 1886 File:Vincent van Gogh - Still Life, Basket of Apples.jpg,

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...

, ''Still Life, Basket of Apples'', 1887 File:Georges Pierre Seurat - Port-en-Bessin, The Outer Harbor (Low Tide) - 4-1934 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Georges Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , , ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough su ...

, ''Port-en-Bessin, The Outer Harbor (Low Tide)'', 1888 File:Paul Gauguin - Madame Roulin - 5-1959 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...

, ''Madame Roulin'', 1888 File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 131.jpg,

, ''Stairway at Auvers'', 1890 File:Paul Cézanne - Bathers - 2-1956 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...

, ''Bathers'', 1890–92 File:Anders Leonard Zorn - Lucy Turner Joy - 97-1917 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Anders Zorn Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American ...

, ''Lucy Turner Joy'', 1897 File:Edgar Degas - The Milliners - 25-2007 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Edgar Degas, ''The Milliners'', 1898 File:John Singer Sargent - Portrait of Charlotte Cram - 210-2017 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, John Singer Sargent, ''Portrait of Charlotte Cram'', 1900 File:Camille Pissarro - Le Louvre, soleil d’hiver, 2e série - 1405.jpg, Camille Pissarro, ''The Louvre, Morning, Sunlight'', 1901 File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Portrait of a Woman - 26-1992 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century ...

, ''Portrait of Gerti'', 1911 File:Robert Henri - Betalo Rubino, Dramatic Dancer - 841-1920 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

Robert Henri Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against A ...

, ''Betalo Rubino, Dramatic Dancer'', 1916 File:Amedeo Modigliani - Elvira Resting at a Table - 77-1968 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg, Amedeo Modigliani, ''Elvira Resting at a Table'', 1919 File:Claude Monet - Water Lilies - 134-1956 - Saint Louis Art Museum.jpg,

, ''Water Lillies'', 1915–26 File:The Dream 8411983 .jpg,

, ''The Dream'', 1921 File:Monet - Charing Cross Bridge, 1903.jpg,

, ''Charing Cross Bridge'', before 1926 File:The Bath 8461983 .jpg,

, ''The Bath'', 1930 File:Sunday Morning Breakfast by Horace Pippin, 1943.jpg,

Horace Pippin Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught American artist who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known work ...

, ''Sunday Morning Breakfast'', 1943

Exhibitions

2020

* (November 20, 2020 – May 31, 2021) Buzz Spector: Alterations * (September 17, 2019 – October 11, 2020) The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection * (December 13, 2019 – November 22, 2020) Javanese Batik Textiles * (July 31, 2020 – January 31, 2021) Currents 118: Elias Sime * (August 7–November 15, 2020) New Media Series— Martine Syms * (February 16–September 7, 2020) Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí * (January 24–August 2, 2020) New Media Series– Sky Hopinka

2019

* (November 15, 2019 – March 8, 2020) Currents 117: Dave Hullfish Bailey * (November 1, 2019 – January 19, 2020) New Media Series– Clarissa Tossin * (October 20, 2019 – January 12, 2020) Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston * (July 21–September 15, 2019)

: The Art of Invention * (May 31–October 27, 2019) The Bauhaus and its Legacy:

Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the w ...

's Triadic Ballet * (May 24–December 1, 2019) Printing the Pastoral: Visions of the Countryside in 18th-Century Europe * (April 26–August 25, 2019) Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970 * (March 17–June 9, 2019)

Rachel Whiteread Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Ar ...

* (February 22–May 27, 2019) New Media Series–Oliver Laric * (February 22–May 27, 2019) Currents 116: Oliver Laric

2018

* (December 14, 2018 – May 5, 2019) Southwest Weavings: 800 Years of Artistic Exchange * (November 30, 2018 – March 31, 2019) Printing Abstraction * (November 11, 2018 – February 3, 2019) Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now * (October 19, 2018 – February 10, 2019)

Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) he returned to Nigeria, leaving Freddie to raise the couple's six children. 3/sup> Wiley has said that his family survived on welfare checks and the limited income earned by his mother's 'thrift store' – ...

: Saint Louis * (October 5, 2018 – February 17, 2019) New Media Series– Renée Green * (June 15–November 25, 2018) Balance and Opposition in Ancient Peruvian Textiles * (April 20–July 15, 2018) Currents 115: Jennifer Bornstein * (April 20–September 30, 2018) New Media Series: Cyprian Gaillard * (March 25–September 9, 2018) Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds * (March 30–September 30, 2018) Chinese Buddhist Art, 10th–15th Centuries

2017

* (December 22–May 28, 2018) Greek Island Embroideries * (November 5–January 21, 2018) Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics * (November 17, 2017 – February 4, 2018) Currents 114: Matt Saunders * (November 17–April 15, 2018) New Media Series—Ben Thorp Brown * (September 15–March 25, 2018) Fired Up: Ink Painting and Contemporary Ceramics from Japan * (August 11, 2017 – January 28, 2018) A Century of Japanese Prints * (July 14–November 12, 2017) New Media Series: Amy Granat * (June 25–September 17, 2017) Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015 * (May 26–November 26, 2017) Cross-Pollination: Flowers in 18th-Century European Porcelain and Textiles * (April 1–June 25, 2017) Currents 113: Shimon Attie Lost in Space (After Huck) * (April 21–September 4, 2017) The Hats of Stephen Jones * (March 24–June 25, 2017) New Media Series: Shimon Attie * (March 3–July 30, 2017) Learning to See: Renaissance and Baroque Masterworks from the Phoebe Dent Weil and Mark S. Weil Collection * (March 10–September 4, 2017) In the Realm of Trees: Photographs, Paintings, and Scholar’s Objects from the Collection * (February 12–May 7, 2017) Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade

2016

* (December 16–March 19, 2017) New Media Series: Rodney McMillian * (October 16, 2016 – January 8, 2017) Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan * (September 2–December 11) New Media Series:

Dara Birnbaum Dara Birnbaum (born 1946) is an American video and installation artist. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the Amer ...

* (September 9–April 30, 2017) Textiles: Politics and Patriotism * (August 5, 2016 – February 12, 2017) Impressions of War * (August 19, 2016 – February 12, 2017) Japanese Painting and Calligraphy: Highlights from the Collection * (June 19–September 11, 2016) Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum * (April 1–August 21, 2016) From Caravans to Courts: Textiles from the Silk Road * (March 6–May 8, 2016) The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs * (March 24–June 19, 2016) Currents 112: AndrÃ©a Stanislav: Convergence Infinité * (March 11–August 14, 2016) Real and Imagined Landscapes in Chinese Art * (January 29–July 17, 2016) A Decade of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

2015

* (September 18, 2015 – March 20, 2016) Blow-Up: Graphic Abstraction in 1960s Design * (November 8, 2015 – January 31, 2016) St. Louis Modern * (November 6, 2015 – March 13, 2016) New Media Series—Ana Mendieta: Alma, Silueta en Fuego * (October 23, 2015 – February 14, 2016) Currents 111: Steven and

William Ladd William Ladd (May 10, 1778 – April 9, 1841) was one of the earliest United States, American anti-war activists, and the first president of the American Peace Society. Biography Ladd was born in Exeter, New Hampshire as a direct lineal descenda ...

: Scouts or Sports? * (September 4, 2015 – March 6, 2016) Journey to the Interior: Ink Painting from Japan * (July 17–November 1, 2015) New Media Seriesâ€”Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd * (July 31, 2015–January 3, 2016) The Artist and the Modern Studio * (June 28–September 27, 2015) Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa * (April 8–July 12, 2015) Currents 110:

Mariam Ghani Mariam Ghani (Pashto/Dari: مریم غنی; born 1978) is an Afghan-American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist. Biography Mariam Ghani was born in 1978 in Brooklyn, New York, of Afghan and Lebanese descent. Her father, Mo ...

* (April 17–July 19, 2015) Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print * (March 20–September 7, 2015) Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles * (February 22–May 17, 2015) Navigating the West:

and the River * (February 27–August 30, 2015) Creatures Great and Small: Animals in Japanese Art * (February 7–September 20, 2015)

Thomas Cole Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history painti ...

’s Voyage of Life

2014

* (December 12, 2014–May 10, 2015)

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...

: "Intense Realism" * (November 21, 2014 – April 5, 2015) Scenic Wonder: An Early American Journey Down the Hudson River * (November 21, 2014 – April 5, 2015)

Nicholas Nixon Nicholas Nixon (born October 27, 1947) is an American photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera. Biography Nixon was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by ...

: 40 Years of The Brown Sisters * (October 12, 2014 – January 5, 2015) Atua: Sacred Gods from Polynesia * (October 31, 2014 – March 8, 2015) Currents 109: Nick Cave * (September 12, 2014 – February 22, 2015) Calligraphy in Chinese and Japanese Art * (August 1–October 19, 2014) New Media Seriesâ€”Janaina Tsch¨pe: The Ocean Within * (August 29–November 2, 2014) Louis IX: King, Saint, Namesake * (July 4, 2014–February 22, 2015) Facets of the Three Jewels: Tibetan Buddhist Art from the Collections of George E. Hibbard and the Saint Louis Art Museum * (June 20–December 7, 2014)

Brett Weston Theodore Brett Weston (December 16, 1911 – January 22, 1993) was an American photographer. Life and work Weston was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler. He began taking photographs in 1925, while living ...

: Photographs * (May 24–September 14, 2014) Tragic and Timeless: The Art of

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Lat ...

* (April 11–July 27, 2014) Currents 108: Won Ju Lim * (March 16–July 14, 2014) Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet * (March 28–September 7, 2014) Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain * (February 26–August 10, 2014) Anything but Civil:

Kara Walker Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best ...

’s Vision of the Old South * (February 7–September 7, 2014) Flowers of the Four Seasons in Chinese and Japanese Art * (January 10–March 30, 2014) New Media Series â€”

Marco Brambilla Marco Brambilla (born 25 September 1960) is an Italian-born Canadian contemporary artist and film director, known for re-contextualizations of popular and found imagery, and use of 3D imaging technologies in public installations and video art. Hi ...

: Evolution (Megaplex) * (January 24–June 15, 2014) Life Cycles: Isabella Kirklandâ€™s Taxa * (January 21–June 22, 2014) Mother Earth, Father Sky: Textiles from the Navajo World

2013

* (November 8, 2013 – February 16, 2014) The Weight of Things: Photographs by Paul Strand and

Emmet Gowin Emmet Gowin (born 1941) is an American photographer. He first gained attention in the 1970s with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith, and her family. Later he turned his attention to the landscapes of the American West, taking aerial photogr ...

* (October 4, 2013 – February 2, 2014)

Chiura Obata was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher. A self-described "roughneck", Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career a ...

: Four Paintings, Four Moods * (September 27, 2013 – January 5, 2014) Currents 107: Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock * (June 29–September 2, 2013)

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

: Wish Tree * (June 29, 2013 – January 19, 2014) Encounters Along the Missouri River: the 1858 Sketchbooks of Charles Ferdinand Wimar * (June 29, 2013 –January 26, 2014) Postwar German Art in the Collection * (June 29, 2013 – January 26, 2014) A New View: Contemporary Art * (May 3–September 8, 2013) New Media Series—Hiraki Sawa: Migration * (April 26–October 27, 2013) Mantegna to Man Ray: Six Explorations in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs * (March 5, 2013 – January 12, 2014) Highlights of the Textile Collection * (February 8–April 28, 2013) New Media Series— William E. Jones: "Killed" * (January 18–June 14, 2013) Focus on the Collection—Edward Curtis: Visions of Native America

2012

* (November 2, 2012 – January 27, 2013) New Media Seriesâ€” James Nares: Street * (October 21, 2012 – January 20, 2013)

Federico Barocci Federico Barocci (also written ''Barozzi'')(c. 1535 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and inf ...

: Renaissance Master * (September 14, 2012 – January 13, 2013) Focus on the Collection: Drawn in Copper, Italian Prints in the Age of Barocci * (July 13–October 21, 2012) New Media Series—Laleh Khorramian: Water Panics in the Sea * (June 8–September 3, 2012) Restoring an American Treasure:The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley * (June 15–December 31, 2012) Plants and Flowers in Chinese Paintings and Ceramics * (May 4–August 26, 2012) Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War, (Annotated) by

* (April 6–July 1, 2012) Currents 106: Chelsea Knight * (February 19–May 13, 2012) An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography * (January 13–March 25, 2012) New Media Series—Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Single Wide * (January 13–April 8, 2012) At the Crossroads: Exploring Black Identity in Contemporary Art * (January 20–April 29, 2012) The First Act: Staged Photography Before 1980

2011

* (October 2, 2011 – January 22, 2012) Monet’s Water Lilies * (October 14, 2011 – January 15, 2012) Focus on the Collection: Expressionist Landscape * (September 9, 2011 – January 8, 2012) New Media Series—Guido van der Werve: Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme * (July 15–October 9, 2011) Focus on the Collection: Francesco Clemente’s High Fever * (June 12–August 21, 2011) Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley * (June 17–September 5, 2011) New Media Series—Martha Colburn: Triumph of the Wild * (April 8–July 31, 2011) Currents 105: Ian Monroe * (April 15–July 10, 2011) Focus on the Collection: Engraving in Renaissance Germany * (February 13–May 8, 2011) Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea * (February 25–June 19, 2011) Visual Musing: Prints by

William Kentridge William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are constructed by ...

* (January 14–April 10, 2011) Aaron Douglas * (January 14–April 10, 2011) Glimpsing History through Art: Selections from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints * (January 28–June 5, 2011) New Media Series—William Kentridge: Two Films

2010

* (October 10, 2010 – January 2, 2011) Joe Jones: Painter of the American Scene * (October 22, 2010 – January 16, 2011) New Media Series—

Pae White Pae White (born 1963) is an American multimedia visual artist who is known for her unique portrayal of nature and rather mundane objects through her creations of suspended mobiles. She currently lives and works between Sonoma County Sonoma County ...

: Dying Oak * (September 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011) Portrait of Depression-Era America * (July 16–October 17, 2010) New Media Series—Laurent Grasso, The Birds * (June 20–September 6, 2010)

Bill Viola Bill Viola ( , ; born 1951) is an American contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, d ...

: Visitation * (June 20–September 6, 2010) The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy * (June 25–September 19, 2010) Form in Translation: Sculptors Making Prints and Drawings * (April 9–July 11, 2010) Currents 104: Bruce Yonemoto * (March 12–June 20, 2010)

Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragm ...

* (February 5–April 4, 2010) New Media Series , Marc Swanson & Neil Gust, Dark Room * (February 14–May 9, 2010) African Ceremonial Cloths: Selections from the Collection

Services

*Art classes for children, adults, and teachers. Each costs about $10–$200. *Richardson Memorial Library, one of the largest centers for the history and documentation of art in the Midwest, holding more than 100,000 volumes and the museum's archives. Both can be searched through their online catalog.Saint Louis Art Museum Web Site *Resource Center, a loan collection of educational materials circulated through the museum's nine satellite resource centers in Missouri. *Free guided tours for groups led by trained docents.

References

More information

*Saint Louis Art Museum 2004, ''Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection'', Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Mo. *Saint Louis Art Museum 1987, ''Saint Louis Art Museum, An Architectural History, Fall Bulletin'', Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO. *Stevens, Walter B. (ed.) 1915, ''Halsey Cooley Ives, LL.D. 1847–1911; Founder of the St. Louis School of Fine Arts; First Director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis'', Ives Memorial Society, Saint Louis, MO *''Visitor Guide'' (brochure), Saint Louis Museum of Art, 2005. *Washington University in St. Louis, ''Student Life'', 2006, Buried Treasure:University Owned Mummy Kept at Saint Louis Museum.

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