175 years of art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library : a revised second edition of the handbook to the collections / by Julie Dunn-Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn-Morton, Julie A., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis--Art collections.

St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis.

Art--Missouri--Saint Louis--Catalogs.

Art.

Painting--Missouri--Saint Louis--Catalogs.

Painting.

Sculpture--Missouri--Saint Louis--Catalogs.

Sculpture.

Prints--Missouri--Saint Louis--Catalogs.

Prints.

Library catalogs--Missouri--Saint Louis.

Library catalogs.

Art museums.

Missouri--Saint Louis.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

266 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised second edition.

Other Title:

One hundred and seventy five years of art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library

One hundred seventy five years of art at the Saint Louis Mercantile Library

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, Missouri : St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri--St. Louis, [2021]

Summary:

The St. Louis Mercantile Library Association has, from the time of its founding in 1846, exhibited and collected fine art, amassing a collection that compliments its research holdings while also reflecting the tastes, interests and cultural aspirations of its constituency. As such, the collection is particularly strong in artists who lived and worked in the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri who created works inspired by literary, political and historical subjects. Numerous donations of sculpture have helped form a nucleus of works that bring to life the Association's literary collections, while the predominance of landscape paintings is a natural outgrowth of St. Louis's nineteenth century landscape movement that was tied to national and international art styles. Appropriately, the collection also features portraits of political, literary and social leaders created in various media by some of the leading artists of the day. This fully illustrated handbook presents highlights of the paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and folk and decorative arts that make up the Mercantile Library Association's permanent collection and that reflect the institution's past 175 years of cultural activity as well as its ongoing role as a museum for art of the American Midwest.

Contents:

Preface / John Neal Hoover

Prefatory note to the second edition / John Neal Hoover

Introduction

Sculpture

Paintings

Prints & drawings

Folk & decorative arts

Appendix I. Artists in the permanent collection

Appendix II. Exhibition history.

Notes:

"An anniversary publication 1846-2021."

Includes bibliographical references (page 266) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of St. Louis Mercantile Library.

ISBN:

9781737095101

1737095106

OCLC:

1305061709