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A bustling outdoor art market scene with people admiring and browsing paintings on display. A large tree with broad leaves towers over the setup. Children play near a cart in the foreground, and greenery forms the background.

Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art

The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection

with essays by William H. Gerdts, George E. Jordan, and Judith H. Bonner

A richly illustrated exhibition catalog with masterworks of Louisiana art from the 19th and 20th centuries

Cover of Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art features a lush, painted landscape with trees and oranges. The text highlights the Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art

HNOC 1996 
9" × 12" • 96 pp.
75 color images; 4 b&w 
hardcover • ISBN 978-0-917860-39-3
$29.95
softcover • ISBN 978-0-917860-40-9

$15.95

This richly illustrated exhibition catalog presents masterworks of Louisiana art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Featured artists include Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, François Bernard, George David Coulon, and brothers William and Ellsworth Woodward.

The catalog also features decorative objects such as Newcomb pottery, crafted at New Orleans’s Newcomb Art School at the turn of the 20th century and prized by collectors for its natural motifs.

Portrait of a person with curly auburn hair wearing a vivid green blouse. The background is a mix of muted grays and greens, and the subject gazes to the side with a neutral expression.

“Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art has to convince the most jaded art critics that Louisiana art deserves serious attention at the most sophisticated level and that it has played an important role in our nation’s cultural history.”

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