The Art of Bessie Lowenhaupt: St. Louis Painter

The Art of Bessie Lowenhaupt: St. Louis Painter features 82 paintings and drawings primarily from two periods of Bessie Lowenhaupt's life when she was particularly active as an artist: the first period from approximately 1898 to 1910 and the second from 1958 to 1968. Bessie Lowenhaupt (1881-1968) at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago at the turn of the century. Throughout her life, she continued her studies in St Louis, honing her art through both art classes and repeated study of the challenges that held her interest. In all that she created, Bessie Lowenhaupt sought to describe the essential nature of her subject by expressing its representative forms. Her focus continually shifted, ranging from the broad overview of life in the city to the minutiae of birds enjoying a festive repast. For Bessie Lowenhaupt, art was everywhere, residing in the commonplace sights of daily life to still life models of the classroom. The St Louis Art Museum has prepared this catalogue as the first publication to bring together the early and late works of a local painter whose modest scale and subject matter an essence both true and inviting.