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John Genin
John Genin as primarily known as a portrait painter, but he also produced historical, genre, and landscape painting in nineteenth century New Orleans.
Ann B. Dobie, PhD
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Joseph Rusling Meeker
Although not a Louisiana resident, landscape painter Joseph Rusling Meeker is well known for his bayou swamp scenes.
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Louis Oscar Griffith
Artist Louis O. Griffith was not a native of Louisiana, but he discovered its charms on a visit to New Orleans and proceeded to depict the city in his artwork.
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Lula King Saxon
Though remembered for being a talented landscape painter, Lula King Saxon was also a writer, musician, poet, singer, and actress.
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Marie Seebold
Marie Seebold knew as a child that she wanted to be an artist and began her formal art studies at the age of eleven.
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Theodore Sydney Moise
In the 1840s Theodore Sydney Moise moved to New Orleans, where he operated a successful portrait studio for decades.
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Victor Pierson
Few details are known about the life of British-born hunting, landscape, and portrait painter Victor Pierson, who appears on the New Orleans city directories in the late nineteenth century.
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William Joyce
Widely know as a prolific and imaginatively versatile children's book writer and illustrator, Shreveport native William Joyce was named one of the "Top 100 people to watch in the new millennium" by Newsweek magazine.
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William Spratling
William P. Spratling was part of a thriving artists colony in New Orleans in the 1920s. It was from New Orleans that Spratling first traveled to Mexico where he became a leading silversmith.
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