Édouard Manet, French, 1832–1883; The Reader (detail), 1861; oil on canvas; 39 1/4 x 32 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 254:1915
The Saint Louis Art Museum maintains an active and award-winning scholarly publishing program. Explore our recent and historical publications below.
Recent and Forthcoming Titles
European Ceramics Circa 1900: The Eidelberg Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum
This collection catalogue celebrates a major gift from scholar and collector Dr. Martin Eidelberg to the Saint Louis Art Museum. Produced across continental Europe around 1900, these 157 works demonstrate the extraordinary variety of form, surface, and ornament realized over a fifty-year span. These works show artists, designers, and manufacturers responding to the so-called ‘cult of nature’, filtered through personal expression, technical experimentation, and the emergence of modernist design ideals.
Authors: David Conradsen (ed.), Martin Eidelberg, and Jonathan Clancy
Front cover: Keller & Guérin; Vase, “Chardon” (detail), by 1900; glazed earthenware; 111/2 × 91/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm), Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 120:2023
Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea
Anselm Kiefer’s first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years explores the river as a powerful metaphor for time, history, and renewal. This richly illustrated volume features new works and a diverse range of essays—from the artist’s own writings to insightful scholarly and literary reflections.
Authors: Klaus Dermutz, Anselm Kiefer, Min Jung Kim (ed.), Christoph Ransmayr, and Melissa Venator
Exhibition catalogue cover featuring the artist's handwritten title, designed by Jason Beard.
Native Studio Art Since the 1920s: The Healey Collection
This book introduces a new major gift through multiple perspectives, including art history, conservation, ethnohistory, and personal relationships with the artists. Native Studio Art Since the 1920s explores works of key figures in context to expand the narratives of 20th-century Native American art.
Authors: Tony Abeyta, Bill Anthes, Sophie Barbisan, Bruce Bernstein, Jessica Horton, Alexander Brier Marr (ed.), Leon Roybal, and Gordon Yellowman
Harrison Begay (Haske Yahne Yah), Diné (Navajo) and American, 1917–2012; Navajos and Their Horses, 1938; commercial tempera on paper; sight: 12 × 16 1/4 in. (30.5 × 41.3 cm) framed: 17 5/8 × 22 × 1 in. (44.8 × 55.9 × 2.5 cm); Saint Louis Art Museum, Promised gift of the William P. Healey Collection of Native American Art 2024.192
Publications by Collection Area
- Native Studio Art Since the 1920s: The Healey Collection (2025)
- Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection (2022)
- Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration (2021)
- Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970, from the collection of John R. and Teenuh M. Foster (2019)
- The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection (2019)
- Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now (2018)
- Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis (2018)
- Plains Indian Art of the Early Reservation Era: The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
- St. Louis Modern (2015)
- Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene (2010)
- Native Studio Art Since the 1920s: The Healey Collection (2025)
- Narrative Wisdom and African Arts (2024)
- Osiris: Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries (2018)
- Plains Indian Art of the Early Reservation Era: The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2016)
- Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan (2016)
- The Carpet and the Connoisseur: The James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs (2016)
- Later Chinese Bronzes: Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E. Kresko Collection (2008)
- Power and Glory: Ming Dynasty (2008)
- Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred, 1530–1800 (2020)
- Learning to See: Renaissance and Baroque Masterworks from the Phoebe Dent Weil and Mark S. Weil Collection (2017)
- Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print (2015)
- Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line (2012)
- European Ceramics Circa 1900: The Eidelberg Collection (2026)
- Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea (2025)
- Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939 (2025)
- Narrative Wisdom and African Arts (2024)
- Matisse and the Sea (2024)
- German Expressionism: Paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum (2024)
- Monet / Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape (2023)
- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Saint Louis Art Museum (2023)
- Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection (2022)
- Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration (2021)
- Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dali (2019)
- Poetics of the Everyday: Amateur Photography, 1890–1970, from the collection of John R. and Teenuh M. Foster (2019)
- The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection (2019)
- Graphic Revolution: American Prints 1960 to Now (2018)
- Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis (2018)
- St. Louis Modern (2015)
- Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings (2015)
- Monet’s Water Lilies: The Agapanthus Triptych (2011)
- Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from Saint Louis Collections 1946–2007 (2008)
Bulletins
The Bulletin of the Saint Louis Art Museum was published under various titles from 1915 to 1998. From 1915 to 1979 it contained information on Museum activities and acquisitions. Some issues served as annual reports or exhibition catalogues. Beginning in 1980, the Bulletin was published in thematic issues devoted to particular aspects of the Museum’s collection.
All of the Museum’s bulletins are available for viewing on JSTOR.