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Picturing the School of Fine Art

Picturing the School of Fine Art features a selection of early images from Washington University Archives depicting the St. Louis school of fine art from the late 1800s through the 1920s.

The photos are grouped within four categories: Downtown Campus, Early Faculty, Promoting the School and New (Current) Campus

“Children’s Class ‘A’ School of Fine Arts, March 1929.” The photograph by Frank M. White, St. Louis, features boys and girls drawing from cast models on the Hilltop Campus.