ST. LOUIS • A $5 million donation has jump-started construction of the new St. Louis Art Museum sculpture garden.
The museum announced the gift, from board president Barbara Taylor and her husband, Enterprise Holdings Chairman Andy Taylor, at its board meeting this week. The money will pay for the planting of 450 trees, installation of sculptures already owned by the museum and establishment of a $2 million garden endowment, among other things.
Garden construction is the last step of a landscape plan designed by Paris-based Michel Desvigne, following the 2013 opening of the museum’s new East Building. Desvigne, who won the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2000 and the French national Urbanism Grand Prize in 2011, also worked on Millennium Park in London, Draï Eechelen Park in Luxemburg, and the New Qatar National Museum in Doha, according to the Art Museum.
The plan calls for two water features. The museum said it is installing works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Aristide Maillol and Mathias Gasteiger, among others.
Art Museum Director Brent R. Benjamin called the garden plans “art in nature.” Some trees are being planted now; sculptures are largely in place.
Construction started this summer. It’s scheduled to finish in spring.
David Hunn covers public projects & cultural institutions. Follow him on Twitter @davidhunn.
The museum announced the gift, from board president Barbara Taylor and her husband, Enterprise Holdings Chairman Andy Taylor, at its board meeting this week. The money will pay for the planting of 450 trees, installation of sculptures already owned by the museum and establishment of a $2 million garden endowment, among other things.
Garden construction is the last step of a landscape plan designed by Paris-based Michel Desvigne, following the 2013 opening of the museum’s new East Building. Desvigne, who won the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2000 and the French national Urbanism Grand Prize in 2011, also worked on Millennium Park in London, Draï Eechelen Park in Luxemburg, and the New Qatar National Museum in Doha, according to the Art Museum.
The plan calls for two water features. The museum said it is installing works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Aristide Maillol and Mathias Gasteiger, among others.
Art Museum Director Brent R. Benjamin called the garden plans “art in nature.” Some trees are being planted now; sculptures are largely in place.
Construction started this summer. It’s scheduled to finish in spring.
David Hunn covers public projects & cultural institutions. Follow him on Twitter @davidhunn.
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