{"id":1109,"date":"2009-05-29T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2009-05-29T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:12:34","slug":"under-construction-images-of-the-gateway-arch-by-art-witman-opens-june-20-at-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/05\/29\/under-construction-images-of-the-gateway-arch-by-art-witman-opens-june-20-at-the-society\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Under Construction: Images of the Gateway Arch by Art Witman&#8221; opens June 20 at the Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE<br \/>\nMay 26, 2009<br \/>\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\nContact: Joan Stack (573) 882-9368<\/p>\n<p><em>Under Construction: Images of the Gateway Arch by Art Witman<\/em> opens June 20 at the Society<br \/>\nBy The State Historical Society of Missouri<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, MO\u2014The 630-foot Gateway Arch dominates the St. Louis skyline, and images documenting its construction will cover the walls of the State Historical Society\u2019s Main Gallery when <em>Under Construction: Images of the Gateway Arch by Art Witman<\/em> opens on June 20, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>By its completion in 1965, the Gateway Arch had been 30 years in the making.  President Franklin Roosevelt named the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial the first site under the Historic Sites Act in 1935, but it was not until 1947 that architect Eero Saarinen won a design contest to construct the memorial, and work on the Arch did not begin until 1963.  <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch <\/em>photographer Art Witman joined workers high above the city and took breathtaking shots of the monument\u2019s various stages of creation.  The resulting mural-sized, full-color photographs were donated by Witman to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-St. Louis in 1984.<\/p>\n<p><em>Under Construction<\/em> will be on display through September 5, 2009.  The State Historical Society of Missouri is located in Ellis Library at the intersection of Hitt Street and Lowry Mall on the University of Missouri campus, with parking available in three nearby garages.<\/p>\n<p>About The State Historical Society of Missouri<br \/>\nFounded in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and a trustee of the state since 1899, the Society is the preeminent research facility for the study of the Show Me State\u2019s heritage and a leader in programming designed to share that heritage with the public.  Through educational outreach, such as the Missouri History Speakers\u2019 Bureau and genealogy workshops, or the performing arts, like MoHiP Theatre, the Society not only brings Missouri history to the state\u2019s citizens, but also gives Missourians the tools to uncover the history in their own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE May 26, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joan Stack (573) 882-9368 Under Construction: Images of the Gateway Arch by Art Witman opens June 20 at the Society By The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MO\u2014The 630-foot Gateway<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2009\/05\/29\/under-construction-images-of-the-gateway-arch-by-art-witman-opens-june-20-at-the-society\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Under Construction: Images of the Gateway Arch by Art Witman&#8221; opens June 20 at the Society<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-announcement"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 23:28:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}