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- The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States.
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The museum's origins date to 1879, [3] when the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts was founded as part of Washington University. [4] The nascent museum was housed in a building Wayman Crow commissioned of Boston architects Peabody and Stearns as a memorial to his son, Wayman Crow Jr.
The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum’s comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives ...
Missouri, USA. 2005–13. The Saint Louis Art Museum is home to one of the most comprehensive art collections in the USA and is located in the city’s Forest Park. The original building, designed by Cass Gilbert, was designed in a neo-classical style and originally built as one of the exhibition pavilions for the St Louis World’s Fair, held in 1904.
Jul 22, 2013 · Founded during the 1904 World’s Fair, the museum is famed for its Cass Gilbert structure, an exemplar of Beaux-Arts mastery whose position is of prime importance on a dominant hilltop overlooking the formal lakes of Forest Park, larger than Central Park, created at the same time.
The original and main building designed by Cass Gilbert was built as one of the exhibition pavilions for the Saint Louis World’s Fair, held in 1904. Five years later it became the new home for the city’s art collection and in the following years several extensions were added.
Aug 16, 2013 · Cass Gilbert's Palace of Fine Arts, now the Saint Louis Art Museum, was the only permanent structure built for the 1904 World's Fair. While a cultural icon to this day, the historic building's neoclassical design limits how art can be displayed, especially large contemporary works.
Founded in 1879, the museum was formerly known as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent unit of Washington University. The Beaux-Arts style building was designed by Cass Gilbert, a famed architect.
