The St. Louis School of Fine Arts was founded as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts in 1879 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, and has continuously offered visual arts and scul
1879 Peabody and Stearns building, home of the art school 1879–05 (razed 1919)
former British Pavilion building, home of the art school 1905–25 (razed 1925)
Brookings Hall
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
St. Louis School of Fine Arts
…undergraduate schools of architecture, and the university's art collection in its Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. As of 1878, painter and art professor Halsey Ives had managed an art program with an affiliation with Washington University for four years, providing both academic and vocational art training, with…
Halsey Cooley Ives (1894-94), by Anders Zorn. Oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum
Ives and Charles M. Kurtz, c. 1893