"Collecting art...turned out to make good business sense for Mark Twain Bancshares]. When the bank opened its first branch in south St. Louis County in 1963, the area was a cultural desert. So when the branch began exhibiting museum-quality paintings on its walls, people flocked into its lobby--and many of them opened accounts...'It was rewarding...' having art on the walls 'was exciting and helped it become a $3 billion bank."

--- Adam Aronson, chairman emeritus of Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch