Painting in Louisiana from the Historic New Orleans Collection

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- Moses Greenwood
- Half-length portrait of a seated blond man. He wears a dark coat, buff waistcoat, and white shirt with high collar.
- Oil on canvas
- Portrait of Sullivan Buckner
- Half-length portrait of a seated man wearing dark jacket, waistcoat, and white shirt. He holds a letter in his right hand. To his left, at bottom right, is a letter with sealing wax, quill pen, and inkwell.
- Oil on canvas
- Unitiled (Red geometric composition)
- Composition of red and pink squares and rectangles, with a strip of green across the bottom. Features large planes of red, yello, orange, pink, and green with royal blue lines throughout.
- Oil on canvas
- Untitled (Feet)
- Two pairs of feet, printed in offset lithograph and adhered to the canvas. Thin gray lines extend between the feet and the rest of the canvas. The top of the canvas is painted light blue, and the bottom is painted or printed to resemble crumpled...
- Mixed media on canvas
- Untitled (Two women and baby)
- Composition in dark blue with two faceless female figures. One wears a dress and leans against a rectangular object. The other stands behind the object. A baby lays at the bottom of the piece.
- Oil on canvas
- Affront
- Composition in three sections: the center third is bordered in gray, with thin gray lines running at angles across a dark green backround. Over this, in the middle of the rectangle, is a mass of light orange shapes, possibly bodies, and outlines of...
- Oil on canvas
- Elba
- Brown monochromatic abstract painting in deep relief with a pinwheel shape on a diamond-shaped canvas.
- Acrylic on canvas
- Khyber Pass
- Red and white abstract painting, with white overlapping circles in deep relief.
- Acrylic on canvas
- Portrait of Self
- Mixed media work in three sections. At top is a group of three brown squares with teal grasshoppers, possibly stencilled, across a purple background with small, yellow and black loops. At middle is a group of three rectangles with graphite drawings...
- Mixed media on canvas
- The Silent Majority
- Composition with a lithographic print showing part of The Who's ""The Kids Are Alright"" album cover. Pictured are Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and Keith Moon sleeping under a Union Jack flag. This image is set over a print of a crowd scene....
- Oil and lithograph on canvas
- Mark Walton
- Bust-length portrait of a middle-aged man shown in near-frontal pose, turned slightly to the right. He has dark curly hair, dark brown eyes, and wears a black dress coat, waistcoat, scarf, a white shirt with wing collar, and a black flower-shaped...
- Oil on canvas
- Bennet Biscoe
- Bust-length portrait of a middle-aged balding man shown in near-frontal pose slightly facing left. He has black hair and sideburns, dark-blue eyes, and long face. He wears a black overcoat over his black dress coat and waistcoat, and black tie...
- Oil on canvas
- Larry Fontaine
- Bust-length portrait of a young man, Larry Fontaine (1923-1985), shown with shoulders in three-quarter view facing left, with face shown almost frontally. He is shown against a dark ground having blue fading into purple at top. He has black hair...
- Oil on silk
- Major General William Owen as a Small Boy
- Bust portrait of a young child with long curls of brown hair. His shoulders are bare. The title declares him to be the future Major General William Owen.
- Oil on canvas
- Portrait of Thomas Cripps
- Three-quarter length portrait of a bespectacled Thomas Cripps shown against a plain ground. He has brown hair and a beard and wears a dark dress coat, vest, and slacks. He holds a masonic sword in his left hand and a magnifying glass in his right....
- Oil on paper mounted to linen
- View of Jackson Square and Cathedral
- View of Jackson Square showing the statue of Andrew Jackson, the Cabildo, Presbytere, and Saint Louis Cathedral.
- Oil on canvas
- Allegory of the Americas
- Peruvian allegorical painting depicting an Indian woman wearing a feather headdress and feather girdle, and holding a green-headed parrot on her left arm. At her right is a cornucopia filled with fruit and coins, together with an alligator and a...
- Oil on canvas
- Ethiopian Bishop, Moses
- View of a black man dressed in monk's robe, seated beneath a tree at a low table. He has bare feet. He holds in his hands an open book to a page reading: Non Coronabitur nisi qui legitime certaverit. His body is turned in three-quarter view facing...
- Oil on canvas
- Perpetual Calendar
- View of a street corner with Creole Cottages and a church and steeple. The bottom right corner of the piece is a perpetual calendar running from 1800-2000, with instructions on reading the calendar
- Oil on canvas
- Saint Charles Hotel in Flames
- View of the first Saint Charles Hotel, designed and built by Gallier and Dakin, 1834-1837. The building is on fire, with the crumbling dome and roof engulfed in flames. A group of onlookers are at bottom left, and a fireman enters the building via...
- Oil on canvas