160 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library
160 Years of Art at the St. Louis Mercantile Library

Author: Julie A. Dunn-Morton

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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This fully illustrated handbook presents highlights of the paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and folk and decorative arts that make up the Mercantile Library Association's permanent collection and that reflect the institution's past 160 years of cultural activity as well as its ongoing role as a museum for art of the American Midwest. The collection is particularly strong in artists who lived and worked in the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri and who created works inspired by literary, political, and historical subjects. Numerous donations of sculpture have helped form a nucleus of works that brings to life the association's literary collections, while the predominance of landscape paintings is a natural outgrowth of St. Louis's nineteenth-century landscape movement that was tied to national and international art styles.

Cincinnati's Literary Heritage
Cincinnati's Literary Heritage

Author: Kevin Grace

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007-09-30

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1439671885

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This cultural history of Cincinnati explores how a love of books and reading transformed Ohio’s Queen City into a bibliophile’s paradise. Since its founding in 1788, Cincinnati has been home to lovers of books and reading. The early settlers swapped books with one another. By the early 1800s, civic leaders were envisioning the creation of a public library, and in 1814, the Circulating Library Society was founded. Other libraries followed, as did bookshops and stationers. These early social developments were followed by literary industries. Soon, printing and publishing made Cincinnati one of America’s centers for the book trade. Ault & Wiborg became one of the world’s largest manufacturers of printing ink, while the Strobridge Lithography Company produced the lion’s share of circus and show posters in the Western world. Author and rare book archivist Kevin Grace chronicles the centuries-long literary evolution of Cincinnati, a city that now boasts a thriving community of poets, playwrights, authors and booksellers.

St. Louis and the Art of the Frontier
St. Louis and the Art of the Frontier

Author: John Neal Hoover

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780963980427

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Twelve fascinating articles and appendices tell the story of St. Louis' role in the development of Western American art.