Halsey Ives
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Halsey Cooley Ives was the founding director of the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Ives was also a landscape painter, but is best remembered for the organization, administration, and popu
Halsey Cooley Ives (1894-94), by Anders Zorn. Oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum
Ives and Charles M. Kurtz, c. 1893
Wayman Crow
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Wayman Crow was one of the founders of Washington University, a St. Louis businessman, and a politician.
Halsey Ives
…art department at Washington University. His work drew the attention of influential and powerful people in the city. Through the financial support of Wayman Crow a new building for the museum was completed on what is now Locust street in 1881. Ives was called to Chicago in 1892 to organize and conduct the art…
Wayman Crow
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