Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (Mildread 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 was initially located in downtown St. Louis. It is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. The Museum holds 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs. The collection also includes some Egyptian and Greek antiquities and Old Master prints.
The museum moved to its current home, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, in 2006.
In 2018 the museum was closed for renovation as part of a $360 million campus transformation program at Washington University in St. Louis. One year later, it was reopened with a new 34-foot-tall polished stainless-steel facade, a sculpture garden, and nearly 50 percent more public display space.
The museum was established in 1881 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, under the name of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Halsey C. Ives was the museum's first director, and during his tenure, the collection focused on contemporary American artists, notably William Merritt Chase.
In 1905, St. Louis banker Charles Parsons donated his private collection to the museum. This collection, which included pieces by Frederic Edwin Church, established the museum as a major holder of contemporary American art.
In 1906, the museum was moved to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, where it was housed until 1909, at which time its value was formally appraised at $700,000 ($0 today). In that year, the City Museum of Art was formed, and began to acquire its own artwork funded from a unique civic tax levy, separately from the private university collection. Large parts of the university collection would remain "on loan" to the public museum until 1960.
As of the end of 1931, the university's collection of art was extensive, valuable, nameless, and homeless. Its assets included the Charles Parsons collection plus works by Chase, Frederic Remington, Anders Zorn, Rosa Bonheur, and many others. All these were either loaned to the city Art Museum, on display somewhere on campus, shown in Chancellor Throop's home, or stored. The collection's value was estimated at $1,000,000, ranking with those of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
The museum moved to its current home, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, in 2006.
In 2018 the museum was closed for renovation as part of a $360 million campus transformation program at Washington University in St. Louis. One year later, it was reopened with a new 34-foot-tall polished stainless-steel facade, a sculpture garden, and nearly 50 percent more public display space.
The museum was established in 1881 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, under the name of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Halsey C. Ives was the museum's first director, and during his tenure, the collection focused on contemporary American artists, notably William Merritt Chase.
In 1905, St. Louis banker Charles Parsons donated his private collection to the museum. This collection, which included pieces by Frederic Edwin Church, established the museum as a major holder of contemporary American art.
In 1906, the museum was moved to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, where it was housed until 1909, at which time its value was formally appraised at $700,000 ($0 today). In that year, the City Museum of Art was formed, and began to acquire its own artwork funded from a unique civic tax levy, separately from the private university collection. Large parts of the university collection would remain "on loan" to the public museum until 1960.
As of the end of 1931, the university's collection of art was extensive, valuable, nameless, and homeless. Its assets included the Charles Parsons collection plus works by Chase, Frederic Remington, Anders Zorn, Rosa Bonheur, and many others. All these were either loaned to the city Art Museum, on display somewhere on campus, shown in Chancellor Throop's home, or stored. The collection's value was estimated at $1,000,000, ranking with those of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
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