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.... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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 technical methods in... Read full 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 technical methods in printmaking. Working with nuclear scientists at the university, she developed the technology of the electron print, created by drawing... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
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Printmaking in New Orleans
2006
Poesch, Jessie J. (Editor)
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
South of the Border Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947
1993
Oles, James/Karen Reiman
296 pages (color)
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Marlor, Clark S
242 pages
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation
1990
Lang, Gladys & Kurt
437 pages
Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1915-1940
1989
Gambone, Robert L
286 pages (color)
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present