The exhibition is free and open to the public and remains on view through April 12. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. weekends.

Public galleries were closed last April to safeguard the collection during a $13 million renovation project involving the School of Art and the School of Architecture, which are located just east and west of Steinberg in Bixby and Givens halls, respectively. The work came in preparation for the new construction phase of the University's Visual Arts and Design Center, currently being designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.

When completed, the new and renovated facilities will combine to form a comprehensive "arts campus" at the east end of the Hilltop Campus.

Now in the final stages, renovations included a complete reorganization of studio, classroom, workshop and office spaces in Bixby and Givens. Also included were major upgrades to heating, cooling and other buildings systems, with additional work continuing in the covered links between those buildings and Steinberg, where new elevators and loading docks are being constructed.

The Gallery of Art is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1881 as part of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, the collection today includes some 3,000 objects, with the strongest holdings in 19th- and 20th-century European and American art. The gallery also owns two Egyptian mummies, several Greek vases and the Wulfing Collection of approximately 13,000 Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, as well as a large number of prints, drawings and photographs.