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Louisiana native George Rodrigue painted his first Blue Dog in 1984. Created for a book of Cajun ghost stories entitled Bayou, it was his version of the loup-garou, a werewolf-like dog from an old Cajun legend. Using a photograph of his late studio dog as a model, he painted a creature with an eerie presence,…
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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,…
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Born in Hahnville, Louisiana, Clarence Millet studied at the Art Student’s League in New York and later opened a studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Millet worked as an easel painter for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
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New Orleans native Charles Reinike studied art in New Orleans and at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. With his wife Vera he founded and ran the Reinike Academy of Art and an art colony in St. Francisville, Louisiana. As is seen in this watercolor, he often depicted the southern landscape and the people of…
