St. Louis: A Family Affair

Railroad Gates (1928) Edward Hopper

One of the St. Louis families St. Louis Art Museum director Charles Buckley partnered with was the Shapleighs. Warren Shapleigh, President of the Ralston Purina Company, and his wife Jane, an art history major at college, began collecting art in the 1950’s.

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Hopper in Dallas

Gloucester Factory and House (1924), Mr and Mrs S. Roger Horchow, Dallas, TX

From Austin, I motor up I-35 to Dallas through Texas’s Bible Belt. Towns like West and Waco jam the airwaves with sermons about the holy responsibilities of man and wife and how to ‘get in touch with your spouse.’ The western front of America’s culture wars is a boring place.

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