Inventing Acadia on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Alfred W. Boisseau, Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, 1847, oil on canvas, 24 x 40 inches. Gift of William E. Groves, New Orleans Museum of Art.
Inventing Acadia on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Alfred W. Boisseau, Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, 1847, oil on canvas, 24 x 40 inches. Gift of William E. Groves, New Orleans Museum of Art.
Joseph Rusling Meeker, The Acadians in the Atchafalaya, “Evangeline,” 1871, oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 42 3/16 inches, A. Augustus Healy Fund, The Brooklyn Museum.
Richard Clague, Trapper’s Cabin, Manchac, 1870, oil on canvas, 20 x 14 inches. Collection of Roger Houston Ogden.
John Antrobus, A Plantation Burial, 1860, oil on canvas, 52 ¾ x 81 5/16 inches. The Historic New Orleans Collection, The L. Kemper and Leila Moore Williams Founders Collection.
Everett B.D. Fabrino Julio, Life Along a Louisiana Bayou, 1877, oil on canvas, 15 ¼ x 30 ¼ inches. Collection of Roger Houston Ogden.
Robert Seldon Duncanson, Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853, oil on canvas, 27 ¼ x 38 ¼ inches. Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Butler and Miss Grace R. Conover, Detroit Institute of the Arts.
Theodore Rousseau, A Swamp in the Landes, after 1844. Oil on panel, 16 7/16 x 22 5/16 inches. The Walters Art Museum.
Henry Chapman Ford, Water Lilies and Spanish Moss, 1874. Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches. Collection of Fred and Jennifer Hebee.
Robert Brammer, Mississippi Panorama, 1842-1853, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches. Collection of Stacy and Jay Underwood.
Joseph Rusling Meeker, After a Storm—Lake Maurepas, 1888, oil on canvas, 20 ½ x 32 ¼ inches. Gift of the Phi Gamma Chapter of the Chi Omega Society, Louisiana State University Museum of Art.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia, installation view.
Inventing Acadia on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Alfred W. Boisseau, Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, 1847, oil on canvas, 24 x 40 inches. Gift of William E. Groves, New Orleans Museum of Art.
