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• 1 2017-04-02T10:25:01-07:00 (Example) The Kemper Museum of Art at the University of Washington, St. Louis 17 plain 2017-05-05T12:59:02-07:00 The Kemper Museum of Art at Washington University, St. Louis illustrates how a museum may sell a significant portion of its collection to enact a change in the institution's mission. 
  
  Before 1943, the University Art Museum had a small and average collection of objects and artifacts which had been taken in with no "screening committee".[1]
  
  However, when H.W. Janson, a famous art historian, became involved in the university, the faculty decided to give the collection a more focused direction. This led to a large deaccessioning of objects from the university collection. The school is estimated to have sold "approximately one-sixth of [Washington University’s] entire collection."[2]
  
  
  From the sale of these artworks at Kende Galleries—the art gallery inside Gimbel Brothers Department Store in New York—Janson bought 26 works of modern art.[3]
  
  Today, the Kemper Museum houses an important modern and contemporary collections. The museum has stayed committed to the collecting practices that it established over 70 years ago. 
  
  
  [1] H. W. Janson, “Centennial Address” (1981) in Sabine Eckmann, H. W. Janson and the Legacy of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 2002), 45.
  [2] Janson, “The New Art Collection,” 201.
  [3] Janson, “The New Art Collection,” 202-204.