Tuscaloosa: A Collection Remains

Dawn Before Gettysburg (1934) Edward Hopper Tuscaloosa Museum of Art

It is strange to think of Hopper as a historical painter. ‘Dawn Before Gettysburg’ doesn’t play nicely with the other historical pictures surrounding it in the Westervelt Warner collection in Tuscaloosa.

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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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