Saint Louis Art Museum

Profile

The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879 and was then called the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University. The Museum was originally located in downtown St. Louis but relocated to our current home in Forest Park following the 1904 World's Fair. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, the Museum's Beaux-Arts style building bears the inscription Dedicated to Art and Free to All. The Museum's long-standing commitment to free admission makes it possible for everyone to have the opportunity to visit our galleries as often as they like throughout the year.

Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country. With a per-capita attendance that is consistently among the highest of our nation's art museums, we are a national leader in making our collections and programs available to a broad public audience.

represented artists

Berenice Abbott      Georg Baselitz      Herbert Bayer      Bernd & Hilla Becher      Max Beckmann      Louise Bourgeois      Manuel Alvarez Bravo      Paul Cézanne      Chuck Close      Edgar Degas      Walker Evans      Andreas Gursky      Phillip Guston      Candida Höfer      Jenny Holzer      Jörg Immendorff      Wassily Kandinsky      Ellsworth Kelly      Anselm Kiefer      Franz Kline      Nikki S. Lee      Roy Lichtenstein      Markus Lüpertz

Edouard Manet      Brice Marden      Henri Matisse      Joan Mitchell      Amedeo Modigliani      Claude Monet      Henry Moore      Claes Oldenburg      Pablo Picasso      Sigmar Polke      Martin Puryear      Gerhard Richter      Mark Rothko      Thomas Ruff      Lorna Simpson      Edward Steichen      Frank Stella      Paul Strand      Thomas Struth      Vincent van Gogh      Carleton E. Watkins