George Rodrigue
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 stunning 24 in x 20 in original work by Rodrigue features his early Blue Dog on a traditional yellow French provincial tablecloth with vibrant red flowers. This work shows off Rodrigue’s mastery of still life, reminiscent of matisse and Cézanne, the colors in this work truly exemplify Rodrigue’s mastery of both his iconic Blue Dog subject and the pop art genre. A truly phenomenal, early and important Blue Dog work by Louisiana’s most important artist!
Currently on display at the Louisiana State Museum at the Cabildo and featured in the Hilliard’s Rodrigue museum show “The River is the Road.” This stunning 36 in x 24 in original oil by Rodrigue features his early iconic Evangeline pose with a basket of roses, posed under an Oak Tree. The sitter, an accomplished and respected member of the greater Lafayette community, sat for the portrait in person. This is one of the earliest examples of a bright Bayou Scene, with colors that would later define Rodrigue’s most important works. A truly phenomenal, early and important portrait by Louisiana’s most important artist!
A one of a kind original painting on canvas, this early, important Blue Dog features the pop art colors juxtaposed with Rodrigue’s first icon, the Oak tree. The Rodrigue Oak here is in pop art pink, and the pink also radiates from the iconic Blue Dog, the image that made Rodrigue a household name and a blue chip artist. This piece alludes to Rodrigue’s idea of heaven, mirroring his beloved acadian bayou landscape and oak, saturated with vibrant color, greeted by his beloved Tiffany. 24×18.
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 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)
An early original Rodrigue Oak, this piece is one of a small number exhibited at the Palazzo Bembo at the 2024 Venice Biennale. A small,. brightly colored example of Rodrigue’s most iconic early subject, this Oak was chosen by the Rodrigue Estate to represent an entire era in the artist’s work.
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)
Hunt Slonem
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. On Loan to the Louisiana State Museum and featured in Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective 2023-2024. (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. On Loan to the Louisiana State Museum and featured in Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective 2023-2024. (20x24)
The Cover of the Exhibition Catalogue and on Loan to the Louisiana State Museum and featured in Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective 2023-2024. 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).
Named for Cayman's eldest daughter Evangeline, 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).
Named for Cayman's wife Sarah. 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, chosen from the Bunny wall at Lakeside Plantation, from the artist’s 2019 series featuring bright underlying colors and metallics. Named for Cayman's son Teddy. (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)
Named for Cayman Clevenger. 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! On Loan to the Louisiana State Museum and featured in Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective 2023-2024. (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 medium sized green bunny is from the Bunny Wall at Madewood Mansion. This piece is an excellent example of the artist’s incredible brushwork. On Loan to the Louisiana State Museum and featured in Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective 2023-2024. (12x10)
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)
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! Named for Cayman's youngest daughter Elodie Clementine. (6.25x7.25)
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot was 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.
Gilot passed away in June 2023 at the age of 101.
(Source: Mel Yoakum, Ph.D., Director, The F. Gilot Archives)
Terrance Osborne
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).
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Becky Fos
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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Alexander John Drysdale
Alexander John Drysdale: Louisiana’s Painter of Mist and Mystery
Alexander John Drysdale (1870–1934) is celebrated as one of Louisiana’s most evocative landscape painters, a master of mood who captured the ethereal beauty of the region like no other. Born in Marietta, Georgia, Drysdale moved to New Orleans as a young boy, where he fell in love with the city’s natural surroundings—the moss-laden cypress trees, shimmering bayous, and endless expanses of marshland. These landscapes became the heart and soul of his work.
Drysdale’s artistic journey began with formal studies at the Southern Art Union and later at the renowned Art Students League in New York. There, he was introduced to the Barbizon and Impressionist styles that would influence his distinct approach to painting. But it was back in Louisiana, amidst the humid air and shifting light of the swamps, that Drysdale found his true voice as an artist.
Employing a unique technique of oil paint thinned with kerosene, Drysdale’s works are defined by their dreamlike softness, as though the landscapes are suspended in time. His muted palette and delicate, misty strokes capture the essence of the Louisiana wilderness—not just how it looks, but how it feels. Each painting invites viewers to step into the stillness of a swamp at dawn or the quiet mystery of twilight over the bayou.
Drysdale’s work was celebrated in his time, with patrons eager to own a piece of Louisiana’s poetic scenery rendered through his vision. His paintings adorned the walls of New Orleans’ grandest homes and found their way into collections far beyond the South.
Yet, like many great artists, Drysdale’s life was not without struggle. The economic hardships of the Great Depression and the increasing demand for modern art overshadowed his later years. Despite this, his legacy endures, with his paintings serving as timeless windows into Louisiana’s soul.
Today, Alexander John Drysdale is remembered as a true son of the South, a painter whose art resonates with the quiet power of nature and the deep-rooted spirit of Louisiana. His work is not just a record of a place but an experience—one that continues to captivate and inspire.
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James Michalopoulos
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.
Looking for a Michalopoulos? We can help! Cayman served as the Director of Development and then Gallery Director of the Michalopoulos Gallery, overseeing the production and fundraising for a feature length PBS Documentary, procuring, planning, and fundraising for multiple significant solo Museum shows, and leading the Gallery in record sales. Cayman left the Michalopoulos Gallery in 2025 on amicable terms to pursue his writing and art business full time.
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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.
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.
