Downriver

This exquisite volume, replete with full-color reproductions of some of the most important and beautiful works by Louisiana artists, explores the history of painting in Louisiana through its absorption of national and international themes and trends. Represented are the basic categories of portraiture, landscape, genre painting, and nonrepresentationalism. Chapter topics cover a wide range of themes and issues, such as light in Louisiana landscape art, the Mississippi River, and the black image in Louisiana painting. Artists discussed include Jose de Salazar, William Edward West, John James Audubon, Robert Brammer, William and Ellsworth Woodward, Paul Ninas, Elizabeth Laughlin, Helen Turner, and more. For students of art or simply lovers of art, this beautiful book is an exploration into the unique past of an extraordinary state.