MAX BECKMMAN

One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. The re he met the retailer and collector Morton D. May. By the time May died, in 1983, he had amassed a comprehensive collection of Beck mann's oeuvre, most of which he bequeathed to the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). The stunning breadth and power of Beckmann's work a re explored in this volume, which examines all thirty-nine paintings in SLAM's collection. Featuring some of Beckmann's most celebra ted imag...[Read more]