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Audubon was born in present day Haiti in 1785, the son of a French naval officer and planter. As a young child he had a passion for exploring the countryside and drawing wildlife; his interest in nature intensified in 1803 when he came to the United States and was confronted by the pristine and bountiful…
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Peter Jones is a second-generation Woodstock, New York, artist. His father, Wendell Jones, painted murals for the U.S. Treasury’s Section of Fine Arts program during the Depression, and went on to teach at Vassar College, while his mother, Jane Jones, specialized in portraits. He earned a degree in fine arts from Amherst College and studied…
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Bruce Davidson is an influential artist who has been taking photos since he was ten years old. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology and then Yale University, and later was drafted into the US Army. In 1957 he became a freelance photographer for LIFE magazine, and a year 7later, a fulltime photographer for Magnum. Davidson…
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A Louisiana native, Michael Elliott-Smith lives and works in Alexandria, Louisiana. He was a Soil Scientist for the Southern Research Station of the United States Forest Service for thirty-two years. Elliott-Smith first became interested in photography while using manual film cameras to document his research. His familiarity with the medium is what allowed him to…
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The American realist Fairfield Porter created his representational work, largely landscapes, during the height of Abstract Expressionism. Although he was never interested in the movement, he was very close friends with, and continually inspired by, Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning. Porter was a painter, a lithographer, a poet, and an art critic for publications such…
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Renowned photographer Bruce Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 to photograph the people and events of the Civil Rights Movement. As witness to some of the most heroic and important events of the 1960s, Davidson gives us a first hand account of these racially charged times. He also tenderly records the every day experience…
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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…
