Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux - Artist Info

About Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux

  • Biography

    Caroline Durieux, of New Orleans, attended Sophia Newcomb College in her hometown. She went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and later worked with Diego Rivera in Mexico.

    During the 1930s and 1940s, Durieux became a well-known lithographer and social satirist in the tradition of George Grosz and Honore Daumier. Her sharp eyes and graphic lines punctured pomposity and exposed human foibles in scenes of Louisiana life.

    She served as director of the Federal Art Project for the state of Louisiana between 1938 and 1943, and then joined the faculty of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.

    In the 1950s and 1960s, Durieux began to experiment with abstract art, and became an innovator of new techn...

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