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A new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Catching The Moment,” is curated from the personal collection of Ted and Maryanne Ellison Simmons.

Sonia Gechtoff (b.1926, d. 2018) was an acclaimed painter who began her career in Beat-era San Francisco but lived most of her life in New York City.

This was the start of an artistic and social circle that would have a major impact on the...

As we enter a new Roaring Twenties, let’s recall two renegade art dealers who kickstarted modern art back in the Swinging Sixties: Walter Hopps and Irving Blum of Ferus, the L.A. gallery that launched Pop Art and the young (guess who?) Andy Warhol in 1962.

The Saint Louis Art Museum next month will open “Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection,” an exhibition celebrating the 2020 acquisition of more than 800 works of art that has elevated the museum’s holdings of postwar American prints. Opening June 26, 2022, the exhibition presents more than 190 objects from this collection—a rich variety of prints, drawings, collages, artists’ books, photographs, a painting and editioned ...