Halsey Cooley Ives

Halsey Cooley Ives (October 27, 1847 – May 5, 1911) was the founding director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Ives was also a landscape painter, but is best remembered for the organization, administration, and popularization of art in Saint Louis, Missouri. Quotes Art should be a matter of every day enjoyment and use to every normally constituted man, woman and child. Halsey Cooley Ives Quotes about Halsey Cooley Ives Because Halsey C. Ives was fundamentally an energetic and useful citizen who knew how to apply the artistic temperament and refined taste for art that he possessed as an instrument of practical good, his contribution to the welfare and reputation of St. Louis was distinct and substantial. Frederick Kreismann, Halsey Cooley Ives External links Halsey Ives Category:1847 births Category:1911 deaths Category:Painters from the United States Category:Academics from the United States