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George Rodrigue was truly one of the most prolific and praised Louisiana artists in history. Born in New Iberia, Louisiana, Rodrigue not only had a gift for capturing the beauty of Louisiana, his Blue Dog has become an iconic symbol of Louisiana art and culture, and is known around the world. His works began in the 1960's with incredible oils of Louisiana Landscapes, then Cajun scenes, and culminating with scenes incorporating both Louisiana landscapes and Tiffany the Blue Dog. Rodrigue's colorful prints are sought around the world, and his acrylic Blue Dog originals break auction house records throughout the country.
Rodrigue's early notable works include "The Aioli Dinner," which divides time between the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and "The Class of Marie Courage, which won Honorable Mention from Le Salon in Paris, France in 1975, prompting French newspaper "Le Figero," to dub Rodrigue "America's Rousseau." Rodrigue's most famous early works included Evangeline (the Acadian heroine), and Jolie Blonde (the Cajun modern day Evangeline). He also designed three prints for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which feature portraits of Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong, Pete Fountain, and Al Hirt. Rodrigue also painted beautiful portraits of Louisiana Politicians, including: Huey P. Long, Earl K. Long, and Edwin W. Edwards. Rodrigue also famously painted a series of fifteen paintings chronicling the journey of the Acadians from France to Nova Scotia to Louisiana, ending with the official return visit to Grand Pre.
More recently and worldwide, Rodrigue is known for the creation of the Blue Dog series of paintings, featuring a blue-hued dog. He used the shape and stance of his dog named Tiffany and was influenced by the loop-garou legend and often featuring Louisiana landscapes as a backdrop. In 1992, Rodrigue was honored as an About Vodka artist, joining the ranks of Andy Warhol and glass artist Hans Godo Frabel. The Blue Dog was also used by the Xerox Corporation in national ad campaigns, and is featured on the label of Pret a Boire, a lovely Rose.
George Rodrigue passed away in October of 2013, but his works, and the Blue Dog, remain a symbol of Louisiana Culture and a status symbol among Louisiana natives spread around the world.
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This important, late Cajun Scene features the artist’s late, brighter color palate with a return to his iconic Oak tree and pirogue (boat). This Bayou Scene is one of his finest works for color and subject, and features masterful brushwork. Framed in an antique gilt gold frame from the 1800’s. Truly one of Rodrigue’s most stunning acadian originals, this piece also features a “Blue Dog” sketch en verso, with an inscription by the artist titling the piece “George Rodrigue’s Boat.” Perhaps the best representation of the pirogue and the oak ever created by Louisiana’s Rousseau. (20x24)
A one of a kind original sculpture on wood that features both a carved, three dimensional Blue Dog wearing a tie, and a normal blue dog on the back. The piece is a hand painted sculpture by the artist that “floats” off the wall and can be reversed. Sits within an antique gilt wood frame, affixed to the wall by dowel rod which rests, by design, in the center of the sculpture.
This stunning 16in x 20in original work by Rodrigue features his early iconic oak and bayou scene with the color palate of his later work, brighter blues and greens dominate the work, and the colors in this work truly exemplify Rodrigue’s mastery of both his classic Louisiana subject and the pop art genre. Framed in an antique gilt frame from the 1800’s. A truly phenomenal work by Louisiana’s most important artist!
This original Rodrigue features a large Tiffany, George Rodrigue’s beloved dog and the inspiration for the Blue Dog. To Rodrigue, all the Blue Dogs were Tiffany, and Tiffany pieces are among his most beloved originals due to the fact that he painted far less of them than the Blue Dog. This work features two cypress trees in vivid blue on a bright pop art pink and yellow background.
A sketch on specialty, high quality artist paper with gold lining, this original sketch captures an acadian landscape and homestead that defined Rodrigue’s early work and is informed by his Cajun culture and the land where he began his artistic career.
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This piece was created as Blue Dog VI, using a combination of original work and digital design by the artist using a geometric pattern in a nod to Piet Mondrian and his pioneering work with abstract and geometric patterns and color. This important silkscreen takes up an entire page of the Artist’s Catalogue Raisonne, and is a large scale, hand pulled silkscreen. (36x36) Edition of only 25.
This work is an excellent example of Rodrigue’s work: featuring a hand pulled silkscreen of the Blue Dog in vivid blues, contrasted with a silver metallic chrome paper that was created in 2009 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Rodrigue Studio in New Orleans. This piece is truly one that has to be seen in person to appreciate fully how incredible it is. This piece is Louisiana Art, LLC’s Cayman Clevenger’s favorite Blue Dog, and the first piece of art he ever sold. Edition of only 150. Hand signed in red paint pen, hand of the artist. (26x37)
From the private collection of the artist and his wife, this piece is a very rare early silkscreen split font, with some of the brightest and most rich colors of any ever produced by Rodrigue. This work features all three dogs, the Red Dog, the traditional Tiffany, and the Blue Dog. It also features a silkscreen layer of metallic gold Blue Dog heads and the candle, a lasting symbol of goodness and light in the artist’s works. (33x23)
This hand pulled original silkscreen has incredibly vivid colors and is reminiscent of the first ever Blue Dog painting. A truly stunning Rodrigue silkscreen that combines an ancient Cajun home with the iconic Rodrigue Oaks, bayou scene, and moon. Edition of only 130. (30x21)
This early, hand pulled silkscreen is an iconic example of Rodrigue’s mastery of silkscreen printing: featuring the Blue Dog and the Red Dog, this piece also showcases the acadian landscape, in pop colors, that the defined the majority of the world-renowned artist’s career. The iconic Oak is also present behind the dog. Edition of only 120 (16x23)
This piece, one of the most beloved Rodrigue Blue Dogs Mardi Gras pieces has a truly three dimensional quality to it, it is a heavily layered silkscreen with a bright confetti in traditional purple and green around the Blue Dog, which is adorned in a Mardi Gras King’s crown and red and gold cape that really makes it jump off the paper. This is an extremely rare and stunning silkscreen from the original edition of just 120 (1999).
This important work features two blue dogs from two different era of the blue dog. One of the few to have two different types of blue dog and flowers, a happy motif in Rodrigue’s work that appears in his most sought after pieces. This is also one of the only pieces to feature both a yellow and red pop art background with the Blue Dog, providing the perfect contrast and delivering pop art greatness. (22x34). Edition size of only 80, designated artist proof.
From the private collection of the artist, this original split-font is a hand pulled, early silkscreen utilizing the brightest and most vivid colors used in Rodrigue’s printmaking process. This piece features the iconic Blue Dog eyes, reminiscent of the eye of a hurricane, a popular symbol in the artist’s works, and even the subject of a series of original works by the artist on hurricanes. Edition of only 35. (16x23)
James Michalopoulos, (nee James Mitchell), was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to New Orleans and became famous, for capturing the iconic architectural landscape of the city with a certain whimsical fluidity that mirrors the New Orleans joie de vivre.
Michalopoulous is a self taught artist who began his career working in Jackson Square as a street artist. He drew sketches of the square and of people for $2-3 each. After growing tired of drawing portraits, Michalopoulos started traveling around New Orleans on a Vespa with a portable easel, painting the buildings and architecture of New Orleans. His early works were exhibited at local restaurants, and throughout the French Quarter.
Michalopoulos has served as the official artist of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival six times, and his highly collectable prints have featured Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Domino, Alan Toussaint, and Aaron Neville.
His paintings are colorful and feature "exaggerated viewpoints and perspectives." He uses palate knives in his work to provide intense color and texture, and each original oil takes two to three days to complete, although Michalopoulos leaves "completed" works in his studio for weeks and continues to add paint as he feels necessary. His early works were signed "Mitchell" or "M," and his later works, are signed Michalopoulos.
Few painters have been able to capture New Orleans and Louisiana in the way that James Michalopoulos has, and for that reason he is one of our featured artists. His works are featured in the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
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James Michalopoulos with important work “Strollalodian,” as featured in Garden and Gun Magazine, as well as the artist’s retrospective at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Many of Michalopoulos’ earlier works are signed “Mitchell,” the surname that was assigned to his ancestor upon immigration to America. (24x30)
"Simple Sweet," was the featured piece by the RW Norton Art Gallery in their debut Michalopoulos solo exhibition entitled “Heart of the Matter,” in 2019. This piece was selected by the Michalopoulos Gallery to be included in the Norton show, and is on loan from the Clevenger private collection. (30x40)
Here you can see an early work by Michalopoulos, also signed “Mitchell,” that shows his talent as a rising artist. The incredible use of bright, vibrant, color that defined his later work is already present here. The actual home this piece is based on is in the Lower Garden District in New Orleans.
A stunning early night scene with a crescent moon over the Crescent City and the iconic Michalopoulos lamp post. You can truly see the artist’s incredible use of light in this piece.
This large work is the sister piece to the featured spring piece from the Michalopoulos book published in 1997. This piece features a large, iconic “Michalopoulos” signature, and shows his incredible range as an artist with a stunning landscape that truly jumps off the canvas and feels fully three dimensional. This piece was also chosen as a featured landscape in the James Michalopoulos solo exhibition “Heart of the Matter” at the RW Norton museum of art in Louisiana.
Framed in a 7in wide baroque gold frame that truly suits the grandeur of this piece, Day Wain is a fantastic example of a French Landscape by James Michalopoulos, who summers in France.
Featuring a two story Garden District home that truly shows the beauty of New Orleans as a muse, the piece features wrought iron, trees, and a bright palate of blues and greens.
This piece perfectly demonstrates James Michalopoulos’ 2019 color palate of bright, bordering on neon, colors. The sky in this piece pops with purples and blues, a rare dusk scene that perfectly captures a New Orleans evening. The rose bush is dotted with bright, cheery purple roses, and a fence can be seen, as well as as a green house. The study for this piece was featured in the R.W. Norton Michalopoulos solo exhibition “Heart of the Matter.”
This brilliantly colored study perfectly exhibits Michalopoulos’s bright and cheery 2018 color palate, crescent moon atop a three story yellow French Quarter building with beautiful wrought iron work.
Study for Homeostatic is current Michalopoulos, from late 2019. Dated en verso, New Orleans. The use of heavy paint in this piece to create three dimensional texture in the foliage and greenery show the artist’s true mastery of impasto and his color palate and his incredible, unparalleled skill of capturing New Orleans.
This piece, from 1996, features the artist’s incredible use of light and color. The blue of the sky is so incredibly vivid, and perfectly captures a clear day in New Orleans. The impasto used on the trees and landscaping create a true three dimensional effect, and the wrought iron fence in the bottom right of the piece is an excellent touch. On the right of the piece the artist demonstrates his mastery of light by perfectly capturing the essence of shade cast on the Marigny cottage by a nearby tree.
Clementine Hunter was Louisiana's most celebrated and beloved folk artist. She is also Louisiana's most famous female artist. Hunter a self-taught African-American artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, lived and worked on Melrose Plantation. Her work depicted plantation life in the early 20th century, documenting a bygone era. Her first paintings sold for as little as 25 cents. By the end of her life, her works were exhibited in museums around the world and sold by dealers and galleries for thousands of dollars. Hunter was the granddaughter of a former slave. Hunter received an hoary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Northwestern State University in 1986. Though she is considered a folk artist legend, she spent her entire life in poverty, even though she was selling her pieces of art in the 1970's for hundreds of dollars. She died in 1988 in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Hunter is one of the most well-known self-taught artists, often referred to as the black Grandma Moses. Hunter painted from memory, and her works portray cotton and pecan picking, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals. Many of her paintings feature similar subjects, but each painting is unique. Hunter's work features colorful displays of plantation life with powerful expressive force.
Hunter was the first African-Amerian artist to have a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and prominent collectors include Oprah Winfrey and the late Joan Rivers, among many others . Her work can also be seen in the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of American Folk Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, and the New York Historical Association.
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This incredibly rare Hunter has a disputed title, though titled en verso “Pickin’ Gourds,” renowned expert Tom Whitehead believes the piece depicts colorful Easter eggs being placed into baskets. This piece, dated 1968, was from the prime of Hunter’s career and is of particularly excellent quality. It has an excellent provenance: it belonged to the largest collector of Hunter’s work: Dr. Bob Ryan, of New Orleans, and it bears the numbering of his cataloguing method en verso. Additionally, the piece features the artist’s fingerprints, as she painted while holding works.
Oil on Canvas Board (1960’s-1970’s)
Size: 16x23 and 7/8 unframed
This is a prime example of one of Hunter’s biblical series: Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus’ flight into Egypt. Before beginning her life as an artist in her 60’s, Hunter picked cotton on Hidden Hill and worked as a field hand. Featuring Hunter’s iconic angels and a particularly brightly colored sky, as well as pelicans perched on the water below the Holy family. This piece is an excellent representation of Hunter’s work. This piece was owned by the chef of La Riviera Goffredo Fraccaro and has been authenticated. This type of provenance is rare and provides the highest level of authenticity to this work. Frame shows normal signs of age with occasionally chipping, scuffs, and paint loss, but the piece itself is in excellent condition.
As featured in the Clementine Hunter gallery show on Royal Street in the French Quarter.
An original Clementine Hunter oil on board, this piece is an excellent representation of the artist’s work. The good angels, dressed in white, are flying with the bad angel, dressed in red, on a brilliant blue and green background. The Artist’s signature monogram, CH, with an inverted C, is present in the center right of the piece.
Flower Garden is a rare and incredible work by Clementine Hunter, depicting the flower garden at Melrose Plantation. Featuring bright flowers, birds flying around a bird feeder, and even a chicken absconding with a man’s hat. This fun work is a brilliant example of Hunter’s work.
A large, colorful original Clementine Hunter with iconic CH signature, this piece is an excellent example of Hunter’s work. Featuring the heavy dabbed imposto of hunter’s brush, the soapy water has a three dimensional quality to it. 18x24
This large original Clementine Hunter once belonged to close friend of the artist and important Louisianan Julian Foy, of Foy Motor Company. This was the first original Hunter that Cayman ever saw, and at the time of Julian’s passing Cayman was offered the piece first as an acknowledgment of his love for the piece. Featuring a particularly bright and colorful array of clothing, this work is considered to be one of the best examples of Hunter’s work, and a testament to the artist’s incredible ability and talent.
A truly rare photo of Clementine Hunter with an original work by her hand. Though Hunter was made to take photos with works that were copies of her work, works that predate the copies and include an original photo of her with the work are extremely rare and add significant value to the piece.
Hunt Slonem is one of the most important figures in the art world with ties to Louisiana. Slonem is, far and away the most significant artist to graduate from Tulane University. Although you won’t find his signature on the front of any of his works, Slonem’s art is distinctly his own and instantly recognizable.
Slonem is critically acclaimed for his paintings of the natural world; he depicts colorful butterflies, bunnies, birds, and bayous. His works are featured in the collections of the most respected museums and private collections in the country.
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Since his first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, Slonem’s work has been showcased internationally hundreds of times, most recently at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2017 and 2018, he will be featured by the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Gallery in Bulgaria, and in countless galleries across the United States, Germany and Dubai.
His flair and admiration for far-flung destinations has been a staple of his life since childhood. Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, and his father’s position as a Navy officer meant the family moved often during Hunt’s formative years, including extended stays in Hawaii, California and Connecticut. He would continue to seek out travel opportunities throughout his young-adult years, studying abroad in Nicaragua and Mexico; these eye-opening experiences imbued him with an appreciation for tropical landscapes that would influence his unique style.
After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years.
As Slonem honed his aesthetic, his work began appearing in unique, contextual spaces. By 1995 he finished a massive six-by-86-foot mural of birds, which shoots across the walls of the Bryant Park Grill Restaurant in New York City. His charity work has resulted dozens of partnerships, including a wallpaper of his famous bunnies designed specifically with Lee Jofa for the Ronald McDonald House in Long Island.
Slonem continues to draw great inspiration from history, forging palpable connections to the past through his art. His popular portraits of Abraham Lincoln reframe the historic figure as a pop-art icon, and he is currently working on a nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture of French explorer Robert De La Salle, to be displayed publicly in Louisiana.
Yet Slonem’s most ambitious project has been his mission to save America’s often forgotten historic buildings. Realizing too many of the country’s architectural gems have fallen into disrepair, Slonem has found himself drawn to these national landmarks, inspired by the depth of their age and old-world beauty. Among his accomplishments are the restorations of Cordt’s Mansion in Kingston, New York; the Lakeside and Albania plantations of Louisiana; and the Scranton Armory and Charles Sumner Woolworth’s mansion in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His sixth and latest endeavor is Belle Terre, a storied property in South Kortright, New York.
Numerous books and monographs have chronicled Slonem’s art, including Bunnies (Glitterari Inc., 2014), Birds (Glitterati Inc., 2017) and Hunt Slonem: An Art Rich and Strange (Harry N. Abrams, 2002). His studios and homes have been profiled in such books as When Art Meets Design (Assouline Publishing, 2014) and Pleasure Palaces: The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem (powerHouse Books, 2007), among others. His latest will be Gatekeeper (Assouline Publishing), showcasing his reclamation of the Scranton Armory, and its transition “from arms to art.”
Courtesy: Hunt Slonem Gallery
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Interview Magazine called Abraham Lincoln, Hunt Slonem’s Marilyn Monroe (a callback to Andy Warhol’s love of the iconic figure). Hunt Slonem paints Abraham Lincoln better than any contemporary artist, and this is an excellent example of Slonem’s work, featuring his brilliant bird cage cross hatching, done with the back of his brush. (22x18)
An incredible example of one of Slonem’s iconic Louisiana Landscapes, this Bayou scene once hung in the yellow “Bayou Room,” in the artist’s personal collection at his home Albania Plantation on Bayou Teche in Jeanerette, Louisiana. (20x24)
From the private collection of the artist, once housed in the bedroom of Lakeside Plantation, this rare and unique Slonem work depicts a Louisiana live oak, with Spanish moss on a typical south Louisiana Bayou background. Peering out from beneath the artist’s distinctive cross hatching is a Slonem orange background, typical in many of his most iconic works. (36x48)
Featuring many of the artist’s best known subjects: butterflies, flowers, birds, and the spiritual figures, combined with the iconic cross hatching and bright colors that made Slonem an international name. This piece once hung at Albania Plantation on the third floor in the red room. Acquired from a private collection with full provenance. (45”x66)
From the personal collection of the artist housed at Lakeside Plantation, this piece, titled “Peter” rabbit, is as playful and fun as its name. Slonem’s iconic heavy black brushstrokes creates a neo expressionist bunny that conjures pure joy in the eye of the beholder. underlying blues and reds are present in this work that add to the beauty of the silver and gold metallic. (18x14)
This Bayou Lorries piece features butterflies and an array of colors all joined together with a silver metallic background and the artist’s iconic cross hatching revealing the brilliant colors layered below the surface of this already stunning and incredible piece! (30x50).
From private collection of the artist, featured in the ballroom at Madewood Mansion, this piece is stunning example of a twilight Bayou scene with dominant pinks, purples, blues, and yellow. The artist captures the Louisiana Bayou in a way few have in paint! (32x42).
This piece, framed in an antique and ornate oval shaped gilt frame features a full bodied bunny in the artist’s unique manner featuring heavy black brushstrokes painted wet into wet, with perfectly carved whiskers and eyes created in the manner of the artist using the back of the brush. This piece was first featured in the artist’s home Albania, selected for its superior frame, and then was featured prominently above an antique armoire in the lilac bedroom at Madewood. (19.5x 13.5)
From the private collection of the artist, this piece hung prominently at Albania plantation from the time the artist purchased the property, his first Louisiana home. A massive and beautiful painting using heavily applied paint, manner of the artist, with a stunning blue background and bright multicolored butterflies with traces of gold metallic amongst the butterflies. (60x72).
From the private collection of the artist, chosen from the Bunny wall at Lakeside Plantation, from the artist’s 2019 series featuring bright underlying colors and metallics. (7x8)
From the private collection of the artist, selected from the Bunny Wall at the artist’s home Madewood, this beautifully framed original features rare detail for the size: a bunny with surprising eye detail and whiskers created by the artist using the back of the brush. A simple, but clean and beautiful Slonem Bunny! (8x10)
From the private collection of the artist, chosen from the Bunny wall at Lakeside Plantation, from the artist’s 2019 series featuring bright underlying colors and metallics. (7x10)
This work features Slonem’s incredible color palate, his iconic cross hatching, and his favorite subject: his birds. From the private collection of the artist at his home in Louisiana Madewood Mansion. (19.5x30)
From the private collection of the artist at his home, Albania Plantation, this piece was selected from the third floor bunny wall. The background is a soothing blue applied with heavy brush strokes, the with eye and whisker details created using the back of the brush by the artist. An iconic and incredible Slonem Bunny! (12x10)
As featured in the Madewood Mansion, from the private collection of the artist, this piece, which is a large work on canvas featuring deep purples and five-way-cross-hatching, is an excellent representation of the artist’s pop and neo-expressionist Abraham Lincoln, a man with whom the artist shares a deep spiritual connection. (30x40)
This small original features and antique frame, created with underlying pink, green, and blue colors overlaid with metallic silver and gold, and painted wet on wet with stunning butterflies, all cross hatched to reveal the stunning colors underneath. A small but stunning example of the artist’s work! (8x10)
This diamond dust bunny is a large, incredible work by Slonem that is an excellent example of the artist’s work with a familiar subject and an exotic medium. This piece shimmers and shines from different angles, and Slonem’s think brushstrokes in blue and white perfectly capture the happy bunnies. From the artist’s personal collection at Madewood Plantation. (36x48)
As featured prominently in the artist’s social media, this piece is an excellent example of the multicolored diamond dust bunnies. This piece was featured in the entryway and greeted visitors at Madewood Mansion, the home of the artist. (8x10)
This small, Tulane Green bunny is a delightful, simple, clean and beautiful example of Slonem’s work. From the private collection of the artist, as featured on one of his “Bunny Walls,” in the dining room at Madewood Mansion. (7.25x10)
This Hunt Slonem original once hung in the entryway at Madewood Mansion, and was part of the artist’s personal collection in his Louisiana home. This piece features Slonem’s iconic cross-hatching with pink and Slonem orange showing through the metallic gold of the piece. Also features pink and white butterflies. (12x9.5).
From the private collection of the artist at Madewood Mansion, this work combines the iconic Slonem Bunny with the bright and cheery Tiffany blue background paired perfectly with Slonem’s iconic use of diamond dust! With a name that is reminiscent of the Baroness de Pontabla, and her historic mark on Louisiana. (8x10)
This medium sized green bunny is from the Bunny Wall at Madewood Mansion. This piece is an excellent example of the artist’s incredible brushwork. (12x10)
This piece, featuring a new background for the artist that utilizes a metallic pink resin, features the artist’s distinctive bunnies in white and bright pink contrasted against the shiny resin background. This piece once hung in the entryway at the artist’s home Lakeside, which belonged to the Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American revolution. (16x26)
From the green bedroom at Madewood Mansion, this piece features the artist’s metallic gold background with a stunning pale pink peering out from artist’s meticulously carved cross-hatching, with beautiful pink and white butterflies ascending across the canvas. (30x30)
This medium sized bunny once hung in the blue bedroom at Madewood Mansion, the Louisiana home of the artist. Featuring an antique frame, this piece is an excellent representation of the artist’s bunnies! (17x12)
From the collection of the artist at Madewood Mansion, this piece is an excellent example of the artist’s diamond dust bunny. The shimmer and shine in this piece must be witnessed in person to truly understand its beauty! (8x10)
This incredible original features bright baby blues and royal blues exposed under the thick silver metallic applied to the piece in the artist’s unique application using the sgraffito method of cross-hatching pioneered in the neo-expressionist movement by Hunt Slonem. This piece was featured in the Blue bedroom at Madewood Mansion, the Louisiana home of the artist. This piece also features a large, antique frame from the artist’s personal collection of antique frames. (~23.5x41.5)
Uma is an original oil on canvas with metallic gold and silver with the artist’s iconic, bright orange peering through the gold and silver metallic with green hues showing through the metallic as well. This piece hung on the Bunny Wall in Madewood just outside the grand ballroom. (12 and 3/4 x 15 and 3/4).
This small but mighty piece demonstrates Slonem’s mastery of medium, color, and style, blending his iconic bright color palate with metallic silver and gold, with cross-hatched whiskers and his thick black brushstrokes that outline the magnificent and playful bunny! (6.25x7.25)
A New Orleans resident, Becky Fos is a bit of a Renaissance Woman. Fos’ popularity has been growing yearly, not only in the Big Easy, but worldwide. Her streak of burning creative energy is rivaled only by her daily goal of living an active lifestyle of workouts, jogging and CrossFit.
Becky Fos’ works are simply signed B. Fos. Her impasto technique, applying wet, undiluted oil paint with her palette knife, is unapologetically bold and energetic. She uses color as a forefront in her pieces that allow them to come to life, evoking an instant sense of happiness. Over the years, her layering of oil paint and colors have become heavier and thicker, with some of the oil paint being raised half an inch off of the canvas. Her art can be found at her gallery space at Gallery B. Fos on famous Magazine Street at Jackson Ave.
“For me, painting is the most authentic way to express myself,” says Becky. “I am not good with words, so I express myself with paint. I feel enormously blessed to live in New Orleans, where every day is a celebration of life. This city is truly my muse!” She continued, “I gather boundless inspiration from all corners of this wild, beautiful, and colorful city and its undeniably unique history, spicy culture and the vibrant people who live here. I then try to transform these inspirations into oil paintings with my fingers and palette knife.”
She adds, “I choose the colors on my palette, but in the end the colors really choose me. Being offered the opportunity to create a unique painting for the inaugural NOLA Mac N Cheese Fest poster is an exciting one for me and I look forward to sharing it with everyone!”
Becky’s festival poster, for Crescent City Classic in 2016, was the first ever to sell out of it’s prints. The NOLA Mac N Cheese FEST poster is much more limited, with only 1,000 total prints available. Look for her upcoming gallery events and her first coffee- table book on-line and in stores in early 2018.
Becky Fos is the most important female painter working in Louisiana today, and her artwork has taken the Gulf South by storm, with collectors across the Country and from all walks of life.
Artist Statement
“For me, painting is the most authentic way to express myself. I am not good with words, so I just want to keep this short. I feel enormously blessed to live in New Orleans. And I’m inspired by everything . I gather boundless inspiration from all corners of this wild, beautiful, and colorful city. New Orleans is my muse. I try to transform the spirit of my inspirations into oil paintings with my trusty palette knife. I choose the colors on my palette, but in the end the colors really choose me.”
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An important original work by Becky Fos, Pelican Cayman is a King Pelican original, 24x48 oil on canvas created in the manner typical of the artist, with heavy oil paint applied with palate knife to canvas in a thick impasto. This stunning work is an explosion of color that one must see to fully appreciate!
This piece was one of the artist’s fastest selling prints ever during the COVID 19 crisis. It sold out in less than 12 hours!
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Françoise Gilot is one of the most enduring artists of the post World War II School of Paris. After deciding at the age of five that she wanted to be an artist, Françoise has plotted a course for her career which is interwoven with the evolution of modern art in the 20th Century.
Even at the young age of 21, Françoise Gilot was one of the most respected artists of the emerging School of Paris, a movement struggling for recognition during the years of The Occupation. Then, in 1943, during the time of her first important exhibition in Paris, Françoise met Pablo Picasso, an artist 40 years her senior. In 1946, Gilot and Picasso began a decade long relationship and Françoise became both a witness and a participant in one of the last great periods of the modern art movement in Europe. Their circle included poets, philosophers, writers, and many of the legends of the art world, such as Braque, Chagall, Cocteau, and Matisse. This artistic union was also shared with their two children, Claude and Paloma – whose antics and acrobatic postures were often captured in drawings and paintings. By late 1953, the relationship with Picasso had run its course and Gilot left the home she shared with him in Vallauris and returned to Paris with their children.
In 1964, Françoise published Life with Picasso, and over a million copies were sold the first year. Life with Picasso has been translated into more than a dozen languages and it remains today a uniquely compelling and insightful observation about the human side of creative genius.
In 1969, during an exhibition in Los Angeles, Françoise traveled to La Jolla and was introduced to Dr. Jonas Salk. Their mutual admiration of architecture prompted Dr. Salk to offer Françoise a tour of The Salk Institute, the renowned research facility he had founded on the bluffs overlooking the pacific. Their courtship was brief -- Françoise knew well the science of art and Jonas understood the art of science. With both their families in attendance, Paris was the site of a private wedding ceremony in June of 1970.
During her 25-year marriage to Dr. Salk, Françoise Gilot maintained studios in La Jolla, New York and Paris and her career continued to evolve and thrive - her work further infused with maturity and discovery. In addition to strongly structured canvases, often composed with a dominant cadmium red, Gilot’s oeuvre expanded to include monumental “floating paintings,” luminous monotypes and strong, technically sophisticated color lithographs and aquatints.
Even after seventy years, Françoise Gilot continues to work as a painter wresting from form and color a visual statement that is at once both personal and universal. She is not content with the known; she views her task as an artist to transform and extend perceptions and to stimulate viewers towards new insights and experiences. In Gilot’s most recent paintings, the forces of nature, time and space are her preoccupations. Clearly, Gilot’s own explorations and achievements as an artist demonstrate how the vitality of a tradition can be maintained while simultaneously moving forward into the uncharted territories of the art world continuum.
(Source: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Director, The F. Gilot Archives)
Louisiana Cajun Artist, Tony Bernard was born and raised in the unique and culturally rich city of Lafayette, Louisiana. His appreciation for Cajun culture and cuisine, in addition to his love of Louisiana’s “Sportsman’s Paradise” is evident in the way he captures it on canvas.
Tony, even at a young age loved to doodle. As a teenager, he realized that he was not only good at drawing and painting but loved doing it.
Tony Bernard’s voice booms. When he talks about his two greatest passions- Louisiana culture and creating art, he can fill up the room with his words, like a church soloist who doesn’t need a microphone to be heard from the back pews. Despite his larger-than-life presence, during an interview at his studio on Johnston Street in Lafayette, Bernard projected much more humility and joy than your average artist.
He is not a tortured soul. His art is bright, cheerful, and happy, much like Bernard himself. But his journey did not begin in an art school, nor did he come from a traditional arts background.
Bernard got his start painting custom signs for two of the most prominent brands in Louisiana: Tabasco and Landry’s Seafood.
While working on a promotional hand painted billboard for Landry’s Seafood Restaurant that featured the Blue Dog, Bernard caught the eye of Louisiana’s most famous artist.
“You need to come work for me,” George Rodrigue said. The rest, as they say, is history.
Bernard became Rodrigue’s assistant and right-hand man for more than 25 years. His story and his emergence as a fine artist are inextricably tied to George Rodrigue, a man who was dubbed Louisiana’s Rousseau.
Tony started in commercial art in 1983. He gained recognition for winning first place in a national art contest, which published his work in a nationwide magazine for artist. He then moved into visual art in the early 90’s and in 1993, he began his working relationship with world renowned artist George Rodrigue. Tony’s relationship with George as mentor and friend was very instrumental in his growth as an artist.
Tony’s diversity in all mediums has been a passion from the start but acrylics on canvas is his favorite way to take the painting that he has created in his head and put it on canvas.Since beginning his professional career, Tony has been commissioned to produce original art work for over 30 posters for local and regional festivals and he also produced the official Posters for Schaeffer Crawfish Boil in Birmingham, AL, the Washington, D.C. Mardi Gras in 2015 & the 2017 Gator by the Bay in San Diego, CA. He has produced art for professional athletic teams, SEC and Sun Belt sporting events. He has painted wildlife pieces that won him the Louisiana Duck Stamp in 2007-08 and 2014-15.
Portrait artist is another title that Tony wears. Tony was commissioned to paint the Official portrait of the Governor that hangs in the Governor’s Mansion for the State of Louisiana. Tony was also commissioned to paint American Country Music artist Hunter Hayes.
In 2015, a long-time dream of Tony’s happened as he opened his first gallery. Initially, it was opened with Grammy Award Winner, Wayne Toups (Toups Bernard Musical Brushes) in Lafayette, Louisiana.
After a year, the space became too small for both artist, so Tony went solo and renamed the gallery, Bernard Studio & Gallery.
Tony was approached by Bed, Bath and Beyond and they are using Tony’s artwork on various products, including Tumblers, Garden Flags, Glass Cutting Boards and many more products.
Today, you can find Tony at his gallery, where he paints in the company of his wife, Roxie, who runs the gallery and they get to meet and visit with his collectors and friends.
Bernard was recently featured as the featured Artist for the State of Louisiana “I Voted Sticker,” This year’s sticker is the first to feature his own artwork, and his beautiful interpretation of the Louisiana State Seal speaks for itself as well. Bernard remains gracious and deferential to Rodrigue.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Press Secetary Tyler Brey said about Bernard “It is a tremendous honor to be selected, as an artist, to paint this work, and Bernard was chosen to succeed Rodrigue’s wildly popular Blue Dog sticker, and in many ways Bernard is a successor to Rodrigue.” Secretary of State Ardoin had seen Bernard’s work at the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, where he painted the event’s popular signature prints for the last nine years. Bernard saw this as an opportunity to give back to the State that has given him so much, “This was my gift to the people of Louisiana, I donated this artwork because I felt like it was my duty as a citizen of Louisiana,” Bernard said.
Bernard paints a more colorful and whimsical Louisiana bayou and oaks scene than Rodrigue, and his pieces feature inconspicuous Louisiana iconography. Bernard’s work is uniquely his own, and uniquely Louisiana. Bernard’s art speaks the language of Louisiana, and he is fluent in Louisiana symbolism. It is the background and subject for almost all of his work. Sprawling landscapes focus on the natural beauty and iconic symbols of Louisiana- from oaks, bayous, and cypress trees to pelicans, crawfish, music, and musicians. His portraits feature many of Louisiana’s native sons and daughters, and one even hangs in the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion.
This year’s sticker is an excellent example of Bernard’s work: layers of Louisiana imagery, including a pelican, cypress trees, the fleur de lis, and the phrases “Pelican State,” “Feed your soul,” “Sportsman’s Paradise,” and “1812.” Hidden in the piece are also other messages of positivity like “Love” and “Love One Another.”
The piece is Bernard’s take on the Louisiana State Seal, incorporating bright, pop art colors mixed with the familiar Louisiana blue and gold of the official seal. The pelican in the piece, known as “King George,” has become Bernard’s most recognizable and important subject.
The story of the Pelican with the crown and how it came to be known as “King George,” like many great Louisiana political stories, begins at D.C. Mardi Gras. And like many great Louisiana political stories, it has been widely misreported.
Bernard had been selected to create the official print for D.C. Mardi Gras in 2015, and he wanted to create something unique for the doubloons that adorned the majority of the work. He decided to paint a pelican with a crown.
“This image of the King Pelican is pretty striking,” he told his wife. “We need to come up with a name for it.” As he searched for a name, nothing stuck until he came across a photo he had of George Rodrigue at the Washington Hilton. Rodrigue had been getting dressed for D.C. Mardi Gras, sporting a Blue Dog t-shirt and a crown, preparing to put on his full Mardi Gras regalia. But Bernard insists he didn’t name the pelican after Rodrigue; he’d simply felt naming the name “King George” fit the character of the pelican.
Tony Bernard is now a prominent force in the arts community of Acadiana, but his reach far exceeds his Southwest Louisiana roots. He has been called the “Louisiana Festival Poster King,” having been commissioned to create more than thirty prints for events across Louisiana and across the country, from San Diego to St. Mary Parish.
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Created from the award winning 2019 Louisiana “I Voted,” sticker, this piece is on a round canvas and is Tony Bernard’s take on the Louisiana Seal, featuring his iconic King Pelican known as King George.
Tony Bernard is known for painting Oaks and for his use of a bright, pop art palate. This piece is an excellent representation of his work, and features a stunning sketch en verso.
“Me and My Shadow,” an important work by Tony Bernard, acrylic on 24” round canvas. An iconic Bernard Bayou Scene of his beloved Acadiana. This piece features beautiful yellows, greens, and blues, showcasing the artist’s immense talent.
Rooted in Louisiana is a piece created by Bernard for all those who find their roots in Louisiana. This beautiful piece shows the artist’s talent, and features a Louisiana flag ingrained in the beautiful oak tree.
Terrance Osborne, a 41 year old native New Orleanian, grew up in the heart of the culturally rich city of New Orleans. Being inspired by his diverse and colorful social surroundings, Osborne always held an undercurrent interest in art, largely fueled by his mother and his older brother. Facinated by color, Osborne worked with whatever materials he could get his hands on. Finally, in 1991, under the guidance of artist Richard Thomas, he was able to paint with the passion and expression that he had been so avid about.
Osborne attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (N.O.C.C.A.) while in high school and later graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Xavier University in New Orleans. For the following five years he taught at Alice Harte in the public school system. After Hurricane Katrina Osborne decided to dedicate his time completely to his art. His work has recently become a national recognized item. Over the past few years he has been featured in a slew of public media. In 2004 Osborne was granted the honorary “Forty Under Forty Award” for his teaching and artistic contributions to the city of New Orleans. In 2006 Osborne was honored by New Orleans Magazine as one of the “Fifty People to Watch” for 06′.
In 2007 his Official Jazz & Heritage Festival Poster quickly became one of the most sought after posters of the year. In 2008 Osborne partnered with Nike to design a poster and the first New Orleans Air Force 1 tennis shoe. His association with Nike lead to a relationship with the NBA Hornets of which Osborne designed the first official Hornets poster. Be it art connoisseur or causal collector, Terrance Osborne’s art continues to be highly sought after.
(Source: Terranceosborne.com bio).
John Bukaty sees life, and the special events it’s made of, in distinct moments. He sees things one frame at a time. Whether it’s the enjoyable chaos of a music festival, the intense competition of a college basketball game, or a tender moment at a family event, Bukaty sees them all, in portraits. And like a distortion pedal that adds fuzziness and growl to a guitar, Bukaty translates these singular sights onto a canvas using a self-taught method of blurred lines and vibrant colors.
Bukaty was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. The son of an NFL player and stay-at-home mom, he grew up drawing, in mud at first, and then with paper andpencil. He worked diligently on his drawing in grade school and learned as much as he could, on his own, and also with the help of his mother who took him regularly to local museums so he could study the work of the masters up close. His restless energy translated perfectly into football and he became a standout in high school and college. Racked with permanent injuries during his college years, he quit football, and college, and decided on a life in business, just as his father had done after his NFL career was over. A concert in Colorado changed his mind about his business career. He knew he had to get back to art. He started painting again and at the same time started a weekly live show at a local brewpub. The Thursday night event grew, and it eventually led to other live painting commissions. Encouraged by friends and fans, and looking for a bigger stage, Bukaty moved to his beloved Colorado and became the Rock n’ Roll Painter. Denver’s location and rabid music fans have made it a favorite among touring musicians of all genres, and Bukaty quickly became a popular fixture at local concerts. He’s done portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Widespread Panic and Blues Traveler. Bukaty’s work is collected by prominent actors, musicians, and athletes including Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, J.J. Cale, John Popper, Billy Butler, and Coach Bill Self. Corporate collectors include Western Union, Chipotle and Comcast.
Bukaty went to India in 2009 and created 100 paintings in 100 days and his travels and works were recorded in a short film documentary. Bukaty donates his time and talent as often as he can. Numerous organizations have been benefactors of his work including the YMCA, Children’s Mercy Hospital, HALO Foundation, and Tipitinas Foundation. In 2012, Bukaty created Kartma (a fusion of the words karma and art), a philanthropic organization designed to combine art, philanthropy and community. Bukaty captures dynamic moments at live events on canvas, and then donates his original creations.
Bukaty paints people in their times, and in their places. He paints them in the middle of loud, busy and cherished events. He paints to preserve moments, forever etched in color on canvas, and in the minds of attendees. He creates beautiful and durable pieces of history for the ages.
(Source: Johnbukaty.com)
Born in California and raised in Virginia, he began Painting while completing his Undergraduate Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, B.A. International Relations in Latin America. In Lieu of pursuing a career in his field of study he opted to Backpack around America in search of somewhere artist’s belong. He found New Orleans to be the perfect place to plant his artistic seed and take the Louisiana landscape as his muse. You won’t find him in the studio, he prefers to work directly from nature, whether it be down the Bayou or in the streets of the French Quarter. With the inspiration and support from his local community He supports himself solely with his painting. In 2014 He began his Mentorship under Internationally Renowned Artist Akio Hanafuji in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico.
At first glance, my artwork is recognized by rich pigments, light hearted narratives and detailed illustrations. What some don’t realize is that hidden beneath the surface you will find many layers of paint, along with deep rooted emotions that chronicle my life in a sort of illustrated journal. I embed my personal stories and experiences into each painting but I obscure them in a whimsical format to allow the viewer the opportunity to discover the meaning for their selves. I ask you to open your heart and mind to these underlying layers, in hopes that you’ll be surprised to find a deeper, unexpected connection to the work.
-Daniel Angeles
Accomplished contemporary folk artist Holly Sarre is the latest member of her family to capture the beauty and complexity of New Orleans and southern Louisiana on canvas since the 1800s. Holly’s artistic legacy includes, among others, Henry W. Sarre’ (b. 1829) and Carmen G. Sarre’ (b. 1895), who were among the first New Orleans artists to be recognized as Who Was Who in American Art, and their works are still sought-after by collectors today.
Like Sarres before her, Holly’s work embraces classicism in the iconic New Orleans imagery she chooses as her subjects, but her execution is decisively contemporary. Her Brass Bands, First and Second Lines, Mardi Gras Flambeaux as well as the city’s renowned architecture and cemeteries come alive in a rich, vivid Creole palette. At once her canvasses pay heartfelt homage to the city she loves, but also surge with passion and emotion, ranging from joy to despair.
Of particular note is the highly collectible Flood Series Sarre created post-Katrina. In her stunning architectural renderings she depicts a beautiful vibrant cityscape that on closer inspection mirrors a city’s aspirational response to tragedy. Some say inspirational as well. Her paintings precipitated by the BP oil leak are similarly wrought with feelings spiraling out of control.
Sarre’s work has been recognized in juried competitions across the country. She has been a featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, on multiple occasions and her collection hailed by critics as a “must-see.” Recent shows inlude the Contemporary Arts Center's"NOLA NOW", 3 paintings in the "Louisiana Contemporary Show" at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Thru Sept 22, 2013) and the Bombay Artisans Series."
For more, see http://www.hsarre.com/
(Source: HSarre.com Bio).