David Conradsen is the Grace L. Brumbaugh and Richard E. Brumbaugh Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. He has been with the Saint Louis Art Museum since 1994.
Conradsen curated “St. Louis Modern,” a 2015 exhibition on mid-century modern design in St. Louis, with Genevieve Cortinovis. He is the author of the exhibition catalogues “Useful Beauty: Early American Decorative Arts from St. Louis Collections” and “University City Ceramics: Art Pottery of the American Woman’s League,” and he recently contributed an essay on early exhibitions and collections of Newcomb Pottery to “The Art & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery,” by Tulane University.
Conradsen holds a graduate degree in early American culture from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.
Notable media appearances and mentions
- ‘St. Louis Modern’ showcases designers who changed the look of the world (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 10, 2015)
- Radio interview: Saint Louis Art Museum gives local, uncelebrated modernist treasures their due (St. Louis Public Radio, Nov. 3, 2015)
- St. Louis Art Museum to buy $825,000 Frank Lloyd Wright chandelier (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 10, 2013)
- Memorializing St. Louis Modernism: Isamu Noguchi’s American Stove Company commission (Temporary Art Review, Nov. 17, 2011)
Television and video
- Eero Saarinen and the Gateway Arch Design History (SLAM, Nov 4, 2015)
Recent SLAM exhibitions
David Conradsen, The Grace L. Brumbaugh and Richard E. Brumbaugh Curator of Decorative Arts and Design