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  1. Cypress Cabaret

    Jenny Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer whose black and white images are landscape driven and often deal with the historical or ecological importance of a site. Ellerbe’s images are meant to give a sense of the places she photographs. Her work has an enduring quality that manages to make subtle references to the passage of…

  2. On Bended Trees

    Jenny Ellerbe, a Monroe, Louisiana native, is a self-taught photographer that creates black and white digital archival images with a conceptual strategy to illustrate the historical importance of her surroundings. She makes work within about sixty miles of her home, often traveling on the water by kayak. Ellerbe focuses on the environments as they are…

  3. Elysian Fields #21

    Born in 1953, Samuel Corso is a Louisiana native. He attended Louisiana State University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1977. In the same year he became business partners with his mentor, Paul Dufour, a long time professor at LSU. Corso is skilled in the use of charcoal, ink, paint, and glass….

  4. Elysian Fields #15

    Born in 1953, Samuel Corso is a Louisiana native. He attended Louisiana State University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1977. In the same year he became business partners with his mentor, Paul Dufour, a long time professor at LSU. Corso is skilled in the use of charcoal, ink, paint, and glass….

  5. The Sea City

    Born in Cologne, Germany, Betty Waldo Parrish was a painter and printmaker known for her detailed landscapes and cityscapes. She studied art at the Academie Julian in Paris, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, at the Art Students League in New York under the artist John Sloan. During the Great Depression she worked under the…

  6. Untitled

    This hazy river scene including an oak tree covered with moss is a characteristic subject for an Alexander Drysdale painting. The artist moved to New Orleans in the 1880’s and frequently painted images of the local bayous or the Mississippi River. After moving to New York in 1901 to study at the Art Students League,…