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City Museum Founder Cassilly, a Fontbonne Graduate, Has Died

The St. Louis City museum confirmed the death of Bob Cassilly on its website Monday. He graduated from Fontbonne University in Clayton.

The first male student to graduate from has died. The City Museum in downtown St. Louis City, which Robert "Bob" Cassilly founded, posted the announcement Monday on its website.

"The Fontbonne University  community is saddened by his loss, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time," stated Elizabeth Hise Brennan, senior communications and marketing coordinator for Fontbonne, in an email.

Cassilly received a Fontbonne University Founder's Award in 1995 for his "unique and innovative art, architecture and vision," she stated.

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Cassilly graduated with a bachelor's in fine arts in sculpture in 1972 and with a master's in fine arts in sculpture in 1981.

Cassilly was discovered in a bulldozer at his current project site called Cementland, in north St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

A remembrance page on Facebook features photos of the artist's work.

Cassilly also founded the company that made sculptures in Turtle Park near the Saint Louis Zoo and at the in Chesterfield, a 2009 article by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis states.


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