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Visited the #stlouisartmuseum #art #ancientegypt #forestpark
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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“Betalo Rubino, Dramatic Dancer” by Robert Henri (American) - Oil on canvas / 1916 - Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri) #WomenInArt #RobertHenri #Henri #SaintLouisArtMuseum #SLAM #PortraitofaWoman #Dancer #artText #art #BetaloRubino #AmericanArtist #AmericanArt #OilPainting #StLouisArtMuseum #1910s
American artist Robert Henri painted this work in New York in 1916, at a moment when he urged artists to look to the modern city’s working people, immigrants, and performers for subjects with real vitality. The St. Louis Art Museum describes Betalo Rubino as a Spanish dancer living in New York City, and her stance reads as performance and self-definition at once with hands on hips, body angled, eyes direct, as if she controls the terms of the encounter. The full-length portrait shows the woman standing with both hands set firmly on her hips, shoulders squared and face turning back towards the front looking past us. She has light-to-medium skin with warm blush at the cheeks plus dark eyes and thick black hair parted at center with a single curl sweeping across her forehead. A pale, translucent veil covers her head and drapes down her back, softening the edges of her profile. She wears small gold hoop earrings and a sleeveless stage bodice in molten orange, gathered at the waist and cut in a deep V that leaves much of her chest and upper torso uncovered. From the waist, a heavy black skirt falls to the floor in broad, painterly folds, streaked near the hem with quick bands of yellow. Her pointy shoe provides a flash of bright red to punctuate the dark lower half. The background is sweeping green and blue-green brushstrokes, like moving air or stage light. The paint is confident and visible as edges blur, so she feels poised between stillness and the next step with practiced, self-possessed intensity. Henri’s bold palette treats color as drama. A contemporary reviewer wrote that one is struck by the “strength” of his color and “the daring of it.” Henri himself insisted, “What we need is an art that expresses the spirit of the people of today.” Seen through that lens, the veil and costume suggest a role crafted for the stage, while the loose, energetic brushwork keeps her from becoming a fixed stereotype so she remains vivid, individual, and unapologetically present.
January 21, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Islamic Textiles from #StLouisArtMuseum!

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Reddish flower on silver ground. Indian, 17th c. Turkish dotted pattern. Edge of floral detail, raised. Yellow and black birds!
October 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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St Louis Art Museum

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July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Statue

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Statue
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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St Louis Art Museum

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St Louis Art Museum
July 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Golden hour on Art Hill, St. Louis, Missouri, May 9, 2025

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May 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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St. Louis Art Museum

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May 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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"Bugatti." St. Louis Art Museum

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May 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"Behind the Curtain." St. Louis Art Museum

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May 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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St Louis Art Museum, Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri. 2018

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Entrance to the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri.
April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Looking Up & James S. McDonnell Planetarium, Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri. 2018

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Looking Up statue in front of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium in Forest Park, St Louis.
April 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Apotheosis & St Louis Art Museum, Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri. 2018

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The Apotheosis of St Louis stands in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri.
April 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Fun at the St. Louis Art Museum!

Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France

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April 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Day of the Fair by Andrew Wyeth (American) - Drybrush and watercolor on paper / 1963 - Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri) #womeninart #art #watercolor #drybrush #AndrewWyeth #Wyeth #womensart #AmericanArt #portraitofawoman #fineart #AmericanArtist #woman #SaintLouisArtMuseum #SLAM #StLouisArtMuseum
American artist Andrew Wyeth depicts an unidentified African-American lady sits off center, placed in an empty whitewashed room, with a window shedding daylight to the right of her head; she is gently wringing her hands, and directly avoiding eye contact with us; her eyes instead look at the ground to her right, while her mouth is subtly bent in a reflective frown. This exceptional gravity and disconnection with observers is untypical of conventional portraits, therefore giving the painting that not-so-sweet aftertaste distinctive of Wyeth. The depiction is completely lifelike, and the details such as the tiny brush strokes of the line of her eyelid, the small black-n-white checks on her dress and the wrinkles of her palm all unite to make the painting intimate and intriguing. Wyeth has avoided straight lines in this picture, with a crack down the wall being wobbly and discontinuous, and the back of the chair bending. An interpretation of this might be that the woman’s feeling of unhappiness is due to her perceived separation, by the said crack and the walls, from the outside world, and she has turned away from the light, where the light could represent happiness and connection. The colors are muted, restricted to gray, green and brown, and white. The light depicted is strikingly realistic and manages to emit a somber tone via a white-tinted-grey light, reminiscent of a cloudy day, where things can seem rundown and neglected, which is perhaps how the woman is feeling. She is dressed for the event by the looks of it, and yet she is perhaps avoiding it … just as she is facing away from the light, yet her eye is involuntarily straying towards it. It is easy to speculate on this painting, as it is heavy with emotion; however its ambiguity remains, as Wyeth likes to leave us — with a mystery. Credit to the original artist and online commentary.
April 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Flowers from last year’s Art in Bloom at the #stlouisartmuseum #photography #flowers #art #museum #stlouis
March 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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My girlfriend’s back (on display)
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February 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Fading Cloth, 2005
Mixed media (discarded liquor bottle tops & copper wire), a visual representation of the West African slave trade, whenever Europeans exchanged liquor for humans to be used as slaves.
El Anatsui, Ghanaian, born 1944
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January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Nearly 5 feet tall, Max Beckmann’s 1950 painting depicts this woman as a strong and powerful figure who tosses men aside, suggested symbolically by the image of the Jack atop the discarded playing cards on the table. Such a badass. #stlouisartmuseum #maxbeckmann #art
Max Beckmann painting: a woman in carnival costume faces the viewer head-on, sitting assertively on a table with legs spread wide, playing cards spread between, and wearing a cat-like mask. Beckmann depicts this woman as a strong and powerful figure who tosses men aside, suggested symbolically by the image of the Jack atop the discarded playing cards in the foreground. Beckmann structures his composition around a pyramid of black, represented by the stockings, outfit, and the mask.
January 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Portrait of a Young Woman by unknown (formerly attributed to French artist Jean-Étienne Liotard) - Pastel on blue paper / Late 18th century - St. Louis Art Museum (Missouri) #womeninart #portrait #slam #painting #womensart #stlouisartmuseum #portraitofawoman #fineart #painting #art #beauty #artwork
This lovely portrait of a young woman, a pastel on blue paper, has become a rather famous painting. She’s really engaging and someone you’d certainly like to know. We know very little about her, unfortunately, and the museum has been trying to identify who she is. For years it was thought to be the poet Phyllis Wheatley, who worked in London in the mid 18th-century. There is a famous portrait of Phyllis Wheatley where she seated at a desk and shown in profile and she too was a woman of color. But, there’s very little similarity between the two. There was also a well known young woman from the West Indies who came to England in the mid 18th-century and raised on and an estate there and then recorded in a portrait in 1779. Her name was Dido Belle, and she does look a bit like the sitter, but there’s really no other evidence to support that and most people don’t think that’s who she is. Recently, researchers been able to photograph and read accurately the watermark in the paper, an image imprinted in the surface of the paper, and it tells us that this paper was made by a paper maker in the Netherlands who started working in 1751. In addition, the clothing our sitter wears and the headscarf in particular is something of a fashion that wasn’t worn in Europe but was worn in the Caribbean. So we take her to be a young woman from the Caribbean who made her way, probably to the port of Amsterdam, and then either she herself commissioned a pastel portrait or an artist was taken with her for many of the same reasons we find her so engaging.
January 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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“Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch) - Oil on canvas / 1625 - St. Louis Art Museum (Missouri) #womeninart #portrait #painting #stlouisartmuseum #slam #art #womensart #womanart #fineart #dutchart #smiling #oilpainting #artwork #dutch #artoftheday
At first glance, this image appears to be a simple picture of a smiling young woman with rosy cheeks wearing a low cut red and beige dress with black ties plus a matching pair of large colorful feathers in her sandy red hair. It is in fact an advertisement for the woman’s availability as a courtesan (or high-class prostitute). She holds a medallion depicting her sitting nude from behind with an inscription below her, “Who can tell my backside from behind,” which confirms the erotic nature of this image. The brilliant highlights and careful shading of her pale skin and clothing contrast with the dark background to create lifelike three-dimensionality. Gerrit van Honthorst developed these popular stylistic elements in Rome in the early 17th century. He used them effectively to enhance the woman’s physical presence.
January 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Statue of St. Louis XI, Art Hill, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri

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January 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.’ ~
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January 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Valentine Tessier by Max Beckmann (German) - Oil on canvas / 1929-1930 - St. Louis (Missouri) Art Museum #painting #art #slam #maxbeckmann #germanart #stlouisartmuseum #womenart #beckmann #modernart #portraitofawoman #oilpainting
A woman with short sandy blonde hair gently touches her face with her left hand while standing behind a chair. She is wearing a long blue sleeveless dress with white belt and neck drop.
December 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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In Deep Thought by Alfred Stevens (Belgian) - Oil on canvas / 1881 - St. Louis (Missouri) Art Museum #painting #art #belgianart #stlouisartmuseum #oilpainting #belgianartist #alfredstevens #womeninart #womaninthought #thinkingwoman
At the port of Le Havre in Normandy, a woman in an elegant pink dress gazes out to sea at steamboats in the distance while her straw hat and gloves lie on the table and her pet dog sits nearby.
December 3, 2024 at 2:54 AM