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Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation
THE HISTORIC: NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
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THE SHOP AT THE COLLECTION
The Louisiana Artists Biography Series
In 2003 The Collection inaugurated the Louisiana Artists Biography Series. Dedicated to bringing to light the accomplishments and contributions of the fine artists born of or inspired by Louisiana’s rich culture and distinctive environment, the series now boasts four stellar biographies.
All are available for purchase online (www.hnoc.org) and in The Shop.
The complete set sells for $95.
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George L. Viavant; Artist of the Hunt (2003), by George E. Jordan, relates the story of Viavant (1872-1925), an artist whose exquisite paintings of birds, fish, and small game won acclaim from hunters both in Louisiana and other parts of the country. $25
Vaudechamp in New Orleans (2007), by William Keyse Rudolph, looks at Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1864), a French portraitist whose artistic endeavors in New Orleans in the 1830s allowed him to establish a thriving career away from the competitive marketplace of Paris, while revitalizing New Orleans’s French Creole community. $25
Josephine Crawford: An Artist’s Vision (2009), by Louise C. Hoffman, celebrates the life and art of Crawford (1878-1952), an artist at the center of the New Orleans art world in the first half of the 20th century. Her work, which was inspired by Cubism and the flattened forms and minimalist approach of modernism, had a style that was distinctly her own. $30
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans (2010)^vith essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady, is the most thorough examination to date of portraitist Hudson (1811—1844), one of the earliest documented free artists of color in American art history. $35