Full view of a colorful nineteenth-century album quilt with floral, patriotic, and geometric appliqué motifs. — Artwork image: Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Stratford Lee Morton · Saint Louis Art MuseumArtwork: Made by friends of Elizabeth Morrison; designs attributed to Mary Hergenroder Simon and unknown designers, Album Quilt, 1848, accession 1:1973.Source Artwork/association SLAM public-domain open access

Exhibition

Picturing Independence

Name: Picturing Independence
Start: 2026-06-12
End: 2027-01-24
Location: Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380

On view now

Fri, June 12, 2026 — January 24, 2027

Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380, United States

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Free

Paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, textiles, and decorative arts explore how artists have shaped and questioned ideas of American independence.