Wednesday, November 07, 2007

St Louis Art Museum





The St Louis Art Museum is one of the many attractions in Forest Park. It is one of the leading comprehensive art museums in the US & contains over 30,000 works of art. The collections include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes, European & American art of the late 19th & 20th centuries including 20th century German painting. The collection of Modern art covers more than 150 years of European painting & sculpture & includes paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, & Paul Cézanne, as well as Impressionist & Post-Impressionist masterworks by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, & Vincent van Gogh.