St Louis Art Museum Photos

The St Louis Art Museum is housed in the only permanent building built as the Palace of Fine Arts for St Louis World's Fair (1904) by architect Cass Gilbert. It is graced with an equestrian statue of Saint Louis plus other Beaux Arts features. The art collection itself has an extensive range of antiquities plus European & American paintings.

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Equestrian statue of Saint Louis, King of France, before St Louis Art Museum.

Equestrian statue of Saint Louis, King of France.

Palace of Fine Arts (1904) for St Louis World's Fair now Art Museum.
Architect: Cass Gilbert.

Fine arts in allegory in relief on St Louis Art Museum.

Universal arts in relief on Gilbert's St Louis Art Museum.

Fine arts in allegory in relief on St Louis Art Museum.

Goddess with palette & paintbrush before St Louis Art Museum.

Classical figure with paintbrushes before St Louis Art Museum.

Architecture of Palace of Fine Arts with Hercules & Hydra.

Bronze Hercules & Hydra (1921-30) by Mathias Gasteiger outside St Louis Art Museum.

Detail of Hydra head in Hercules' fist (1921-30) by Mathias Gasteiger outside St Louis Art Museum.

Sumerian copper Bearded Bull's Head (c2600-2550 BCE) at St Louis Art Museum.

Bronze Italic shield with dragon (7th-6th C BCE) at St Louis Art Museum.

Roman mosaic with rabbit from Antioch (c 5th C) at St Louis Art Museum.

Greek bronze (510-490 BCE) at St Louis Art Museum.

Japanese porcelain bowl (late 17th-early 18th C ) at St Louis Art Museum.

Chinese covered censer in shape of mythical beast (14th C) at St Louis Art Museum.

Chinese porcelain bowl (18th C ) at St Louis Art Museum.

Chinese Ming porcelain vase (late 15th C ) at St Louis Art Museum.

Chinese bronze mythical mask (10th C BCE) at St Louis Art Museum.

Chinese bronze helmet (1523-1028 BCE) at St Louis Art Museum.

Bust of Benjamin Franklin (c1850-73) by Hiram Powers at St Louis Art Museum.

Painting of St Louis (1846) by Henry Lewis at St Louis Art Museum.

Self portrait (1834-5) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

Jolly Flatboatmen in Port (1857) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

County Election (1852) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

Stump Speaking (1853) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

Verdict of the People (1854-5) by George Caleb Bingham at St Louis Art Museum.

Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies (c1859) by Albert Bierstadt at St Louis Art Museum.

Nooning on the Platte (c1859) by Albert Bierstadt at St Louis Art Museum.

Captive Charger (1854) by Charles Ferdinand Wimar at St Louis Art Museum.

Cradling Wheat (1938) by Thomas Hart Benton at St Louis Art Museum.

The Mississippi (1935) by John Stuert Curry at St Louis Art Museum.

Head of Peasant Woman (1884) by Vincent van Gogh at St Louis Art Museum.

Factories at Asnière (1887) by Vincent van Gogh at St Louis Art Museum.

Stairway at Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh at St Louis Art Museum.

Vineyards at Auvers (1890) by Vincent van Gogh at St Louis Art Museum.

Charing Cross Bridge (1903) by Claude Monet at St Louis Art Museum.

Elvira Resting at a Table (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani at St Louis Art Museum.


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