Montrose McArdle
American (Saint Louis, MO), 1868-1946
On The Missouri
Oil on canvas
Serene landscape with partial view of reflections on the Missouri River. Unsigned, framed.
Sight: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.), Frame: 34 x 27 1/2 in. (86.4 x 69.9 cm.)
To verso lower left a tag states "from: Louis Lebaume, 315 N. 9th Street, Saint Louis, MO". Below this, upside-down, a similar tag states "Public Works of Art Project" and there is a small partially effaced name(?) beginning with the capital letter "M". The Public Works of Art project was in effect from 1933-1934, a possible date for this particular painting.

Louis LaBeaume was born in 1873 in St. Louis and graduated from Washington University’s Manual Training School. He continued his education at Columbia University where he studied architecture. Following further studies in Europe, he apprenticed in leading architectural offices in Boston. LaBeaume returned to St. Louis in 1902 to join the Louisiana Purchase Exposition design staff. He subsequently opened his own practice with Guy C. Mariner. Mariner & LaBeaume produced designs for numerous houses and apartment buildings, the Divoll Branch of the St. Louis Public Library, Phyllis Wheatly Branch Y.W.C.A., and at least one church, the Kiel Opera House (1934), Beaumont Medical Building (1926), and the Lauderman Building.

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