page_title: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: Daniel (1734-1820) and his wife Rebecca travelling westwards to Kentucky;
context_page_description: The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the university's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. It was founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, and initially located in a building in downtown St. Louis. It is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Its collection was formed in large part by acquiring significant works by artists of the time, a legacy that continues today. The Museum contains strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs. The collection also includes some Egyptian and Greek antiquities, Old Master prints, and the Wulfing Collection of approximately 14,000 ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins.
  The museum moved to its current home, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, in 2006.
  In 2018 the museum was closed for renovation as part of a $360 million campus transformation program at Washington University in St. Louis.
context_section_description: The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has four exhibition spaces: the Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery, Garen Gallery, Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery, and teaching gallery. Some exhibitions include To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare, Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks, and Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process.
  The permanent collection of the museum, on the top floor, includes original works such as Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, painted by George Caleb Bingham.
caption: Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
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