Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the Cabildo from November 22, 2022, through September 30, 2023. Published by the Louisiana Museum Foundation, the catalog features seventy of Hopkins’s unique paintings, as well as images of the Louisiana State Museum artifacts that inspired some of them. The catalog, edited by co-curator and Louisiana State Museum historian Joyce Miller, also includes five scholarly essays exploring nineteenth-century Creole culture in New Orleans.
Co-curator Polly Rolman-Smith’s essay provides an overview of Hopkins’s life and artistic background, while Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, associate professor of American studies and Black studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sheds light on the complex nature of Creole identity and changing definitions of the word “Creole.” Other contributors include culinary historian and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris, who considers Creole kitchens and cuisine, and William Keyse Rudolph, deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, who surveys fine and decorative arts in nineteenth-century Creole New Orleans. Architect and architectural historian Robert Cangelosi Jr.’s discussion of Creole architecture in New Orleans brings the volume to a close.
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“Orleania: A Guide to New Orleans Architecture” is the commemorative 2025 Louisiana State Museum exhibition catalogue for “Michalopoulos: Mystical Expressionism".”
This impressive book was curated by Cybèle Gontar for a new exhibit inside The Cabildo in New Orleans running thru September 2024. The volume comes with 3 beautiful covers, Rosettas, Bayou Teche, and Life Oak.
The internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem (b. 1951) is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of butterflies, bunnies and tropical birds. His works are included in many important museum collections all over the world, and especially feature prominently in New Orleans collections. Slonem maintains a thriving Manhattan studio while dividing his time between the Northeast and Louisiana. His art, so beloved in the New Orleans area, has captured the heart of the contemporary market and flourishes in galleries across the globe.
Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective considers the influence of New Orleans and its environs on Slonem’s iconic work. His paintings feature intensely colorful subjects—whimsical bunnies, profuse vandas, cattelayas, and irises and fiery perched motmots and amazons—often suspended in antique frames. This retrospective explores Slonem’s profound connection with this poetic city and the impact of its exotic mystique on his artistic vision. Paintings and sculpture lent exclusively by Louisiana patrons and museums are explored in an art historical context, and the precedents for his painterly style and subject matter are briefly considered. The painter’s sources of inspiration in Louisiana are explored.
This impressive book was curated by Cybèle Gontar for a new exhibit inside The Cabildo in New Orleans running thru September 2024. The volume comes with 3 beautiful covers, Rosettas, Bayou Teche, and Life Oak.
The internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem (b. 1951) is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of butterflies, bunnies and tropical birds. His works are included in many important museum collections all over the world, and especially feature prominently in New Orleans collections. Slonem maintains a thriving Manhattan studio while dividing his time between the Northeast and Louisiana. His art, so beloved in the New Orleans area, has captured the heart of the contemporary market and flourishes in galleries across the globe.
Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective considers the influence of New Orleans and its environs on Slonem’s iconic work. His paintings feature intensely colorful subjects—whimsical bunnies, profuse vandas, cattelayas, and irises and fiery perched motmots and amazons—often suspended in antique frames. This retrospective explores Slonem’s profound connection with this poetic city and the impact of its exotic mystique on his artistic vision. Paintings and sculpture lent exclusively by Louisiana patrons and museums are explored in an art historical context, and the precedents for his painterly style and subject matter are briefly considered. The painter’s sources of inspiration in Louisiana are explored
This impressive book was curated by Cybèle Gontar for a new exhibit inside The Cabildo in New Orleans running thru September 2024. The volume comes with 3 beautiful covers, Rosettas, Bayou Teche, and Life Oak.
The internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem (b. 1951) is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of butterflies, bunnies and tropical birds. His works are included in many important museum collections all over the world, and especially feature prominently in New Orleans collections. Slonem maintains a thriving Manhattan studio while dividing his time between the Northeast and Louisiana. His art, so beloved in the New Orleans area, has captured the heart of the contemporary market and flourishes in galleries across the globe.
Hunt Slonem: A Retrospective considers the influence of New Orleans and its environs on Slonem’s iconic work. His paintings feature intensely colorful subjects—whimsical bunnies, profuse vandas, cattelayas, and irises and fiery perched motmots and amazons—often suspended in antique frames. This retrospective explores Slonem’s profound connection with this poetic city and the impact of its exotic mystique on his artistic vision. Paintings and sculpture lent exclusively by Louisiana patrons and museums are explored in an art historical context, and the precedents for his painterly style and subject matter are briefly considered. The painter’s sources of inspiration in Louisiana are explored
During the twentieth century, furniture collectors and scholars in New Orleans identified a small group of armoires and named their anonymous craftsman the “Butterfly Man” for his repetitive use of a commonplace butterfly-shaped joint used to reinforce panels.
Today, seventeen Butterfly Man armoires (circa 1810-1825) are documented as having been made in the same New Orleans Workshop. While their maker’s identity remains a mystery, his cabinets represent the zenith of craftsmanship in early nineteenth-century Louisiana. In order to contextualize the Butterfly Man’s story, this study explores the history and use of the armoire in Europe and Louisiana and considers early nineteenth-century cabinet making in New Orleans. Who were the early cabinetmakers and where were they from? What was their place in the fabric of New Orleans? What were the Butterfly Man’s influences and how do his armoires reflect them? Who might the Butterfly Man have been?
Chasing the Butterfly Man: The Search for a Lost New Orleans Cabinet Maker, 1810-1825, written by New Orleans Art Historian Cybele Gontar and published by the Louisiana Museum Foundation, is the first comprehensive exploration of this New Orleans cabinetmaker, his construction methods, and ongoing search for his identity.
This educational publication made in conjunction with the “Rodrigue: Before the Blue Dog” Exhibition with Louisiana State Museum features the fifteen oil paintings known as “he Saga of the Acadians. Through them, artist George Rodrigue tells the story of his Acadian ancestors, beginning with their immigration from France to Acadie, a province of New France now known as Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, Canada. He then depicts their expulsion from Acadie by the British during the Grand Derangement in 1755 and their resettlement in south Louisiana, where they eventually became known as Cajuns.
From their Harmony Street studio, two generations of Kohlmaiers restored the tradition of fine bespoke cabinet making in New Orleans. In the morning, Cybèle Gontar and Ruppert Kohlmaier, Jr. will explore the Kohlmaier legacy of this remarkable craftsmanship, which culminated in the exhibition and catalogue, A Century on Harmony Street: The Kohlmaier Cabinetmakers of New Orleans.
Then, learn the secrets of a master cabinetmaker in the afternoon when Ruppert will share his tips and techniques and answer questions about his incredible talent: Everything is Simple, You Just Don’t Know How.
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