Missouri, Heart of the Nation Art, Commerce, and Civic Pride
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"In the painting Note from St. Louis by Lawrence Beall Smith, a shoeshine boy pauses during his working day to gaze at The Meeting of the Rivers, a recently installed fountain. Connecting St. Louis with ancient Greek and Roman cultures, Carl Milles's fountain greets visitors to St. Louis as they arrive at and depart from Union Station. The fountain symbolizes the confluence of two mighty rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, and heralds the importance of these rivers for the mythos of Missouri. The shoeshine boy has parked his kit at his side on the pavement and stands contemplating a sculpture of a putto struggling with a gargantuan fish. Jets of water arch over and around this tableau. The shoeshine boy embodies what some felt art could do -- elevate the morals and sensibilities of the working and middle class with a promise of personal transformation."--First paragraph.
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