Painting in Louisiana from the Historic New Orleans Collection

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- (Genesis series)
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Indistinguishable subject is lightly sketched outlining biomorphic shapes (see drawing in portfolio). This is the beginning of the last drawing of the series. The drawing was on Flettrich's easel at his death.
- Charcoal and pencil
- (Geometric Composition)
- Smith, Alvina Wienecke
- Composition of black, white, red, and gray lines and geometric shapes. Abstract view of an interior scene possibly indicating a ladderback chair behind a table covered in books. The orientation of the canvas is unclear.
- Oil on canvas
- (Interior Scene)
- Smith, Alvina Wienecke
- Geometric composition in black, white, red, and blue. Composition features black, white, and red with linear accents of lavender, navy, yellow, and green. The most evident shape appears to be a window. The orientation is unclear but forms of a...
- Oil on canvas
- 1032 Saint Louis Street, New Orleans [Picture in a Frame on a Wall of a Picture in a Frame on a Wall]
- Cruise, Boyd, 1909-1988
- Trompe l'oeil of a picture within a picture of facade view of a Creole cottage at 1032 Saint Louis Street; appears as if it has been pinned to a wall.
- Watercolor
- 1811 Revolt
- Gendron, Lorraine
- View of a mounted rider carrying a rifle and leading a long line of men, some of whom also carry rifles. Two men carry drums, and two carry flags. Shows a house having a hipped roof engulfed in flames. Depicts the 1811 German Coast Uprising.
- Acrylic on canvas
- 1884 New Orleans Exposition Souvenir Plate
- Walker, William Aiken, 1838-1921
- "Whar am de Expersishon?" Souvenir plate with a painted scene showing an Afican American man on the levee at the port of New Orleans with steamboats docked in the background. Carrying a bag and umbrella and wearing ragged clothing, he is looking...
- Oil on brass
- 630 Pine Street, Studio and Courtyard
- Brs, Selina Elizabeth, 1870-1953
- View of the painter's courtyard at 630 Pine Street in uptown New Orleans, later the studio of the artist's daughter, the renowned sculptor Angela Gregory.
- Oil on canvas
- 707-09 Dumaine Street, New Orleans
- Cruise, Boyd, 1909-1988
- Facade of one-story building on Dumaine Street in the Vieux Carré ca. 1850. Standing in front are two fashionable ladies wearing the dress of the day and an African American woman standing in a doorway.
- Watercolor
- A child's cosmology
- Posey, Ernest, 1937-2007
- A wooden vertical box with relief niches which contain ready-made objects and small abstract objects.
- Mixed media
- A Glimpse through a Gateway New Orleans
- Gibson, William Hamilton
- View of courtyard, adorned with many potted plants and iron work, in the Vieux Carre. Two figures face forward: one from the balcony, one from the courtyard. A man leans against a brick wall while a black woman accepts a payment from a woman in...
- Ink and gouache on board
- A Head
- Whitney, Daniel Webster
- Geometrically abstract view of woman's head with veil.
- Oil on canvas
- A Male Holocaust Figure
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Three quarter length view of a skeletal man shown frontally against a dark ground with reddish areas at upper left and across lower composition. He turns his head to the left in three quarter view. He holds his arms down and slightly out from the...
- Oil on canvas
- A Plantation Burial
- Antrobus, John, 1837-1907
- Burial scene shown at sunset in a forest with a group of people gathered around a wooden coffin. The mourners are in various positions; some standing and others sitting. One man lifts his hands up toward the sky. At far left a bearded red haired...
- Oil on canvas
- A View of New Orleans taken from the plantation of Marigny
- Boqueta de Woiseri, John L.
- New Orleans port scene looking up the Mississippi River across Marigny and the Vieux Carré. The Marigny plantation garden and sawmill with stacked lumber are in foreground. People walk along the streets and animals graze. Many ships are docked at...
- Aquatint with etching and watercolor
- A woman, man, and child
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Sketchy view of a child whose arms are extended toward a woman and man who are at the left and right respectively.
- mixed medium
- Abba; Rabbi Holocaust
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- Full length figure of an emaciated dark haired, bearded nude male shown against a dark ground and standing off center and to the right of the composition. He is shown frontally with his head turned to the right. He wears a white prayer shawl with...
- Oil on canvas
- Abraham
- Flettrich, Leonard Theobald, 1916-1970
- View of man's head shown in three quarter view facing left. The composition features incised lines along left border and a small area in lower right.
- Mixed medium
- Abstraction
- Whitney, Daniel Webster
- Playful, bright color abstraction of twisted contortions on a horizontal plane amongst varied shapes and textures of canvas.
- Oil on canvas
- Abstraction
- Whitney, Daniel Webster
- Abstraction of overlapping strict angular geometric and curvilinear forms in primary colors against white.
- Oil on board
- Abstraction
- Clemmer, John Franklin, b. 1921
- Abstract composition showing organic elements in a vertical format in cool pastels and neutral tones. The signature appears in the lower right hand corner: Clemmer.
- Oil on canvas