Expansion Column - St. Louis, MO
N 38° 37.495 W 090° 11.347
15S E 744701 N 4278903
This "expanding" column is located in United Missouri Bank Plaza in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMEZBK
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/27/2012
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Expansion Column is a 22 foot tall welded bronze cor-ten steel sculpture. It depicts just that. It looks like a regular column at the base with the top half going off in all directions. The plaque at the base of the column reads:
EXPANSION COLUMN 1991
Richard Hunt (b. 1935) American
welded bronze
The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis website (
visit link) relates the following about the column at it's creator:
"Expansion Column, a massive bronze tower, got off to a bad start by falling off the crane as it was being loaded onto the truck in Chicago for its move to the plaza at United Missouri Bank in downtown St. Louis. The work arrived, unharmed, the next day. The sculpture symbolizes the growth and unity within the community that refers to the bank's increasing presence in St. Louis.
Hunt, who took his first drawing class at age 10, was more interested in sculpture from the very beginning. His first sculpture, done while he was still a student, was bought by the Museum of Modern Art. The purchase made the young African-American artist famous. By the time he was 36, the New York museum mounted a retrospective of his work."
It is situated in the United Missouri Bank Plaza, located at Market Street at 4th Street.