Many of the works in the exhibition are on loan from the foundation and from the Rivers estate.
Another valuable exhibit, pots and pans from Julia Child's kitchen, was on loan from her foundation and will be returned.
Here, seven installations stand on the outdoor plaza on long-term loan from the foundation, along with several geometric slab benches of black or white marble.
But it was only on loan from a foundation controlled by the Texas billionaire Ross Perot, who bought it in 1984 for $1.5 million.
At the trial in December, prosecutors said he deposited a 30-day bank loan into the foundation's account to make it appear to have come from donations, to secure at least $4 million in state matching funds.
Though in-line basketball or X-treme Arctic cockfighting may be more your speed, there will come a time when you need to close a deal, secure a loan, open a foundation or buy a politician, and that's when golf is going to come in especially handy.
Pulitzer gave very generously to Harvard and to the St . LouisMuseum, but the current loans to the foundation are monumental.
Securing Matisse's La Danse from St Petersburg had been a particular challenge, Claverie said, as it is an enormous artwork that is rarely loaned and the foundation had to demonstrate it was capable of the extensive security required to house such a valuable masterpiece.
In 2007, it ran a $490,000 deficit, which was covered by a loan from a Canadian foundation.
A construction loan was secured, the foundation was laid — and just like that, the Furse Family Construction Company began to build.
