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In 1905 Ives had been immediately succeeded as director by Edmund H. Louis School of Fine Arts, also part of Washington University.

the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum affiliated with the private Washington University, whose collection was lent to the City Art Museum for several years, and now part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

a newly created, public City Art Museum, to remain in the Palace of Fine Arts, the organization which evolved into the Saint Louis Art Museum an organizing board was assigned to take control in 1912.

This caused the formal separation of the museum from the university in 1909, a split which was the beginning of three civic institutions:

The controller's position was upheld in 1908 by the Missouri Supreme Court. However, the city's controller refused to distribute the tax to the museum's board of control, as it was not a municipal entity and so had no right to tax money. The bill was approved by the citizens of Saint Louis by a nearly 4-to-1 margin. Ives introduced a bill into the General Assembly for an art tax to support the maintenance of the museum. The building was designed by Cass Gilbert, who took inspiration from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy. Louis artists and craftspeople, and offered studio and art history classes supported by a museum collection.Īfter the closing of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the museum and school moved from downtown to one of the few permanent remnants of the fair, the Palace of Fine Arts.

The school, led by director Halsey Ives, educated two generations of St. It was housed in a building commissioned by Wayman Crow as a memorial to his son, Wayman Crow Jr., and designed by Boston architects Peabody and Stearns for 19th and Lucas Place (now Locust Street). The museum was founded in 1879 as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University in St.