Action/Abstraction is in its final week! Visitors are encouraged to acquire tickets as early as possible.
Tickets to Action/Abstraction will be available at the Information Center located in the Museum's Sculpture Hall. General public tickets will also be available at all MetroTix locations (Member discounts are not available through Metrotix locations). Charge by phone at 314.534.1111 or online at metrotix.com. Advance tickets for Action/Abstraction are highly recommended.
Timed tickets for the general public go on sale Wednesday, October 15. The exhibition opens to Members on Saturday, October 18, and to the general public on Sunday, October 19.
Members enjoy free admission to Action/Abstraction every day, and the exhibition is free to the general public on Fridays. Otherwise, admission to the exhibition is $6 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for children 6 to 12, and free for children younger than 6.
Admission includes an iPod multimedia tour for visitors 12 and older. A major credit card is required. The iPod tour is $3 on Fridays when the exhibition is free and free to members every day.
Tickets reserved through MetroTix, including free Friday tickets, will incur a $2.75 service fee per ticket; the service fee is waived for tickets purchased in person at the Museum.
The exhibition opens Tuesday–Sunday at 10:00 am. To allow sufficient time for visitors to enjoy Action/Abstraction, the last ticket entry will be at 4:00 pm Tuesday–Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, the last entry will be at 8:00 pm.
NORMAN LEWIS, TWILIGHT SOUNDS
Twilight Sounds illustrates the correlation of the artist's working process to the creativity and spontaneity of jazz composition. Despite its abstract nature, the work evokes a crowd of people. The descriptive title enhances this effect, suggesting a throng of active, noisy figures before the gray field of twilight.
The painting dates to a pivotal period in Lewis's career, when he was producing some of his freshest and most successful abstract works. Lewis signed with the Marian Willard Gallery in 1946, quickly became active in the vibrant New York art world, and participated in the famous Artist Sessions at Studio 35, which were intended to define the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States.
Twilight Sounds is one of six works contributed by the Saint Louis Art Museum which is traveling to all three venues of the exhibition.
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Twilight Sounds illustrates the correlation of the artist's working process to the creativity and spontaneity of jazz composition. Despite its abstract nature, the work evokes a crowd of people. The descriptive title enhances this effect, suggesting a throng of active, noisy figures before the gray field of twilight.
The painting dates to a pivotal period in Lewis's career, when he was producing some of his freshest and most successful abstract works. Lewis signed with the Marian Willard Gallery in 1946, quickly became active in the vibrant New York art world, and participated in the famous Artist Sessions at Studio 35, which were intended to define the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States.
Twilight Sounds is one of six works contributed by the Saint Louis Art Museum which is traveling to all three venues of the exhibition.
Click Here to Learn More >>
PICTURED WORKS OF ART
(left to right)
David Smith, American, 1906–1965; Cubi XIV, 1963; stainless steel; 125 1/2 x 78 x 30 3/4 inches;
Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund 32:1979; Art © Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Norman Lewis, American, 1909–1979; Twilight Sounds, 1947; oil on canvas; 23 1/2 x 28 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mr. and Mrs. John Peters MacCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saligman, Billy E. Hodges, and Art Enrichment Fund 88:2007
(left to right)
David Smith, American, 1906–1965; Cubi XIV, 1963; stainless steel; 125 1/2 x 78 x 30 3/4 inches;
Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund 32:1979; Art © Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NYNorman Lewis, American, 1909–1979; Twilight Sounds, 1947; oil on canvas; 23 1/2 x 28 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Mr. and Mrs. John Peters MacCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saligman, Billy E. Hodges, and Art Enrichment Fund 88:2007