Inside the Palace of Fine Arts: Cosmopolitanism at the 1904 World’s Fair
Teaching Gallery
As part of STL250, a regionwide celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis, Inside the Palace of Fine Arts: Cosmopolitanism at the 1904 World’s Fair gathers together a selection of artworks from the Museum's permanent collection that were on view at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition along with related works. Featuring such artists as Jean Charles Cazin, Frederic Edwin Church, Charles François Daubigny, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, and Jozef Israëls, this exhibition explores the role of the World’s Fair in relation to local aspirations to turn the city into an international cultural center.
The Teaching Gallery exhibition is curated by Mia Laufer and Orin Zahra, PhD students in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.
Selected works

Frederic Edwin Church
Twilight: Mount Desert Island, Maine
1865
Charles François Daubigny
Landscape (On the Oise River)
1877
Jozef Israëls
Mother and Children
19th century
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
Wood Interior
1867
Jean Charles Cazin
Path on the Cliffs
19th century
Anders Zorn
Portrait of Robert S. Brookings
1904
Charles Émile Jacque
Landscape with Sheep
19th century
Emile van Marcke de Lummen
Cattle in Landscape
19th century
Jakob Henricus Maris
A Town in Holland
19th century
Paul Jean Clays
On the Schledt
1874Teaching Gallery
The Teaching Gallery is a space in the Kemper Art Museum dedicated to presenting works from the Museum's collection with direct connections to Washington University courses. Teaching Gallery installations are intended to serve as parallel classrooms and can be used to supplement courses through object-based inquiry, research, and learning. Learn more