Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950

by Estill Curtis Pennington

The artistic history of Louisiana, from the French and Spanish Baroque painters of colonial Louisiana to the postpainterly abstraction of the New Orleans modernists, can be studied through the diverse canon of styles that are seen in the works of artists who painted in Louisiana in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. A state rich in cultural heritage, Louisiana fostered a unique body of artists who produced an impressive array...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882898000
• ISBN13: 9780882898001
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 12.3"