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A native of Croatia, Ivan Meštrović is well known in Baton Rouge due to the large number of sculptures by him located in outdoor plazas such as those of the Baton Rouge River Center, houses of worship – among them St. Joseph’s Cathedral and B’nai Israel Synagogue, and cultural centers including the Louisiana Art &

A resident of Ponchatoula, Julia Sims is one of the premier photographers of Louisiana wildlife. She earned the moniker “Swamp Lady” for her devotion to capturing on film the vast Manchac Swamp surrounding Lake Maurepas between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sims documents with eloquent expression not only the lyrical beauty of nature, but also

A native of Croatia, Ivan Meštrović is well known in Baton Rouge due to the large number of sculptures by him located in outdoor plazas such as those of the Baton Rouge River Center, houses of worship – among them St. Joseph’s Cathedral and B’nai Israel Synagogue, and cultural centers including the Louisiana Art &

John Marin, an avant-garde artist known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors, grew up in New Jersey. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he enrolled in the Arts Students League in New York in 1905 but soon left for Europe. There he was introduced to Alfred Stieglitz, whose New York gallery was

Hunter lived and worked most of her life on the Melrose cotton plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana. She did not start painting until the 1940s when she was already a grandmother. Her first painting, executed on a window shade using paints left behind by a plantation visitor, depicts a baptism in Cane River. Hunter painted at

Frank Hayden is one of Louisiana’s preeminent sculptors. He is best known for his public commissions, many of which are concentrated in and around Baton Rouge where he resided from 1961 until his untimely death. A devout Christian, Hayden’s artwork reflects deep spiritual and humanistic concerns.  Fellowship, family, Christian values, war and civil rights are

Conrad Albrizio is best known for the murals he created for public buildings throughout Louisiana, many of which were commissioned in the 1930s by various New Deal programs during the Great Depression. At this time, a renewed interest in the Old Masters and the burgeoning political mural movement in Mexico, expedited by artists Diego Rivera

Fritz Bultman’s work is indicative of that of the early abstract expressionists. A student of Hans Hoffman, Bultman participated in the seminal moment in art history in the 1930s and 40s when this new American style of painting took hold in New York. Born into a well-established New Orleans family in 1919, Bultman came into