Historical December 1991 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Art Walk: A Moving Experience is a unique Special Exhibition that takes visitors throughout the Saint Louis Art Museum to explore the outstanding permanent collection of the Museum.
This discovery tour of fourteen selected masterworks ranges from ancient to contemporary, highlighting some of the Museum’s finest examples of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and decorative arts. Audio tours, narrated by Museum Director James D. Burke and the Museum’s staff, tell the stories behind the works as they guide visitors from the ancient galleries to the Asian collections, to modern and contemporary works, through the decorative arts galleries and the Pre-Columbian and African collections, then to highlights of the Renaissance, 19th century America, and Impressionism.
Each work of art on the tour is featured as a small exhibition located in a specially designed gallery setting providing the context of the period with information about the artist, the time and place the object was created, and the significance of the work. Rarely seen works include an engraving by Albrecht Durer, a drawing by Vincent van Gogh, an entire bedroom set designed by the Herter Brothers, and two six-panel screens by the Japanese artist Kaiho Yusho.
The Museum presents this exhibition and related programs free of charge.
The 40-minute audio tour is $2.00, but is offered free to all on Tuesdays and free to members at all times. Maps are provided free for self-guided tours. Two Family Afternoons, tours, and gallery talks are free and offer an opportunity to learn more about the masterworks at The St. Louis Art Museum.
The new full-color Handbook of the Collections is available in the Museum Shop along with a new array of books, cards, posters, ornaments, T-shirts, mugs, and other products featuring The St. Louis Art Museum and its permanent collections.
Pedestal Clock, French, 1720-1735 case in manner of André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642-1732 works by Jean Godde, French, 1668-1748 ebony wood, gilt bronze, brass, tortoiseshell, glass height: 99 1/4 in. Purchase: Friends Fund 32:1989 a-g Middle, top to bottom Running Artemis Greek, Hellenistic marble height: 28 3/4 in. Purchase 41:1924 St. Emma, c. 1501 Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528 engraving 13 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. Purchase 255:1916 Portrait Head of Youth, A.D. 1360-1500 Africa, Benin, Nigeria bronze height: 8 1/8 in. Purchase 12:1936 Old Man’s Head, A.D. 600-900 Mexico, Yucatán peninsula stucco, blue-green and red pigments height: 12 1/4 in. Gift of Morton D. May 150:1979 Right. top to bottom The Madonna and Child Enthroned with St. Peter and St. John the Baptist, St. Dominic, and St. Nicholas, c. 1485-1490 Piero di Cosimo, Italian, 1462-1521 oil on panel 65 1/2 x 44 1/2 in. Purchase 1:1940 The Country School, 1871 Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910 oil on canvas 21 3/8 x 38 3/8 in. Purchase 123:1946 Guanyin, Chinese, 11th century A.D. Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) wood with polychrome and gilt height: 39 in. Purchase 110:1947
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Original Art Walk masterworks montage; individual artwork credits and collection accession numbers transcribed with article. Photograph credits not given.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, December 1991.
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