Pulitzer Arts Foundation
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation building. To the left is the Continental-Life Building
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| Established | 2001 |
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| Location | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 38°38′25″N 90°14′04″W / 38.6404°N 90.2344°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Founder | Emily Rauh Pulitzer |
| Director | Cara Starke |
| Website | http://www.pulitzerarts.org |
Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri opened in 2001 with a building designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect, Tadao Ando. The Pulitzer is located at 3716 Washington Boulevard (between Grand Boulevard and Spring Avenue).
Pulitzer Arts Foundation was established in 2001 by Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who—together with her husband Joseph Pulitzer Jr.—had originally sought to create a space in which to install works from their private collection. The Pulitzers reached out to Tadao Ando in the early 1990s and commissioned him to renovate an abandoned automobile factory and showroom in the Grand Center entertainment district of St. Louis. During the design phase of this project, Joseph Jr. died, and the project was not realized. Emily Rauh Pulitzer returned to the idea for a foundation in 1993, and approached Ando about constructing what would become his first freestanding public building in the United States.
The inaugural exhibition at the Pulitzer opened in October 2001, and featured a selection of works from the Pulitzers’ private collections, including artwork by Roy Lichtenstein, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol. Beginning with the second exhibition, Selected Works by Ellsworth Kelly from St. Louis Collections, Pulitzer Arts Foundation extended the scope of its exhibitions to include works outside of the family’s private collection, and this practice has driven nearly all subsequent exhibitions.
Operating under the name The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts from 2001 to 2014, Pulitzer Arts Foundation has presented a variety of exhibitions including groups shows of minimalist art, Buddhist art, Old Masters, and contemporary themes, as well as solo exhibitions of Dan Flavin,Ann Hamilton,Gordon Matta-Clark,Richard Serra,Hiroshi Sugimoto, and others. To foster an alternative encounter with art, works at the Pulitzer are installed without the wall labels found in traditional museums.
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