2008/2009 Academic Year:

SPRING 2009
The Art History faculty and graduate students plan to travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to view the "Cezanne and Beyond" exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The group intends on visiting many institutions for the weekend including, but not limted to, the Barnes Foundation and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

FALL 2008
The department's faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate, traveled to Chicago, Illinois for a whirlwind tour of the best art and architecture that the city has to offer. The group was joined by Eric Mumford, an associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. He and Professor John Klein took the group on a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and of major downtown Chicago landmarks, such as the Sear's Tower and the Marshall Fields building. The group also visited the Oriental Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where Professors Elizabeth Childs, John Klein, and Angela Miller shared their expertise with the students. To see photos from the trip taken by Professor Symeonoglou, please click here.

2007/2008 Academic Year:

SPRING 2008
Art history faculty and students went to Washington D.C. in late February. Although there were no major exhibitions, the students and faculty visited the National Gallery of Art, the Hirschhorn, the Freer Museum of Asian Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and others. The group also met wth Eric Denker of the National Gallery of Art for a reception at his home, as well as having lunch with alumnus Faye Gleisser, who currently interns at the National Gallery.

FALL 2007
Students and faculty traveled to Kansas City to see the new wing of the Nelson Atkins museum, as well as special collections of Asian, American, Modern, and Contemporary art. The department coordinators include Professors Crenshaw and DeRoo. Click here to see photos from the trip.

2006/2007 Academic Year:

SPRING 2007
Students traveled to Chicago, Illinois in conjunction with Professor Alicia Walker’s seminar, "Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority in the Era of the Crusades." The class visited the exhibition "Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen" at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art. Students took advantage of the opportunity to visit the the Art Institute of Chicago, and two graduate students attended the “Pre-Modern Race and Sexuality Symposium” at the Newberry Library on March 30th.

Professor John Klein of the Department of Art History and Archaeology and Professor Eric Mumford of the School of Architecture spent a long spring weekend exploring cutting edge museum architecture with the students in their course “The Art Museum: History, Theory and Design.” Their road trip through the Midwest included a stop in Des Moines, IA, where they studied the work of architects Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier at the Des Moines Art Center. In Iowa City they went to the University of Iowa Museum of Art, designed by Harrison and Abramowitz and to the new School of Art and Art History, designed by Steven Holl. They saw the work of David Chipperfield at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. On the way back to St. Louis they swung by the John Deere Co. International Headquarters, a corporate campus designed by Eero Saarinen.

FALL 2006
Students and faculty traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota. This whirlwind trip included visits to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which featured the exhibition “A Passion for Paintings,” and included works by Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Goya, Gentileschi, Rosa, and Zurbarán. They also stopped by the University of Minnesota’s Weismann Art Museum, designed by Frank Ghery. The Walker Art Center and the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden were highlights for modern and contemporary art lovers amongst us.

2005/2006 Academic Year:

SPRING 2006
Students and faculty traveled to Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The trip began with a tour of the Homewood House at Johns Hopkins University. At the Baltimore Museum of Art they had the opportunity to view paintings by Henri Matisse in the museum’s Cone Collection of modern art with Professor John Klein, who has published widely on the modern French painter. Other highlights of the trip included visiting the exhibit “Cézanne in Provence” at the National Gallery of Art with Professor Elizabeth Childs. Professor Paul Crenshaw led a tour of the National Gallery’s collection of Dutch Baroque painting, shedding new light on works by Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. Several students fit in a visit to the National Mall and Memorial Parks with Professor Angela Miller. Others used their free time to check out the Museum of the American Indian and the works by Henri de-Toulouse Lautrec, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert at the Phillips Collection.

FALL 2005
Faculty and graduate students made a day trip to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to meet with colleagues and see the neighboring facility. The day began with a visit to the university’s Krannert Art Museum and viewing of the special exhibition of Mexican Day of the Dead altars, “Altars for the Dead, Vows for the Living.” Topics for a stimulating group discussion amongst participants both institutions included teaching as part of graduate student training and the relationship of an art history program to a university museum. The group from Washington University ended the day with a tour of the research library and rare book room.