Mississippi, Louisiana. 1907 - 1998
Outdoor sporting and marine scene painting, pottery design
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Born 1933 Brookhaven, Mississippi. Known for: Landscape.
The following is from Steve Zimmerman who writes: I have known the artist for over 20 years. I have several of his paintings in my collection, helped him organize the retrospective of his work at the... Read full biography
The following is from Steve Zimmerman who writes: I have known the artist for over 20 years. I have several of his paintings in my collection, helped him organize the retrospective of his work at the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, LA back in 1984, and personally placed over 50 paintings in... Read full biography
The following is from Steve Zimmerman who writes: I have known the artist for over 20 years. I have several of his paintings in my collection, helped him organize the retrospective of his work at the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, LA back in 1984, and personally placed over 50 paintings in collections throughout the Midwest. Essentially a self-taught artist, Emmitt Thames, born October 28, 1933 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, progressed from a rural depression-era childhood into the ranks of the... Read full biography
The following is from Steve Zimmerman who writes: I have known the artist for over 20 years. I have several of his paintings in my collection, helped him organize the retrospective of his work at the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, LA back in 1984, and personally placed over 50 paintings in collections throughout the Midwest. Essentially a self-taught artist, Emmitt Thames, born October 28, 1933 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, progressed from a rural depression-era childhood into the ranks of the leading American realists. His youth spawned a hard working, somewhat reclusive man, who honed his innate skills for observation and composition into representational art that can accurately be described as "more feeling than formula". His early... Read full biography
The following is from Steve Zimmerman who writes: I have known the artist for over 20 years. I have several of his paintings in my collection, helped him organize the retrospective of his work at the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, LA back in 1984, and personally placed over 50 paintings in collections throughout the Midwest. Essentially a self-taught artist, Emmitt Thames, born October 28, 1933 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, progressed from a rural depression-era childhood into the ranks of the leading American realists. His youth spawned a hard working, somewhat reclusive man, who honed his innate skills for observation and composition into representational art that can accurately be described as "more feeling than formula". His early concerns were helping the family grow enough cotton and produce to pay for the necessities of life. Fine arts were not a part of his life th... Read full biography
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Louisiana. Born 1962
Contemporary painting
Louisiana, Alabama. Born 1975
Pop art painting, installations, performance art, gallery owner
Mississippi, Alabama, Ohio. 1912 - 2009
Landscape, genre painting, sculpture
Texas, Louisiana. 1901 - 1999
Figure-genre, illustrator, sculptor
Louisiana. 1861 - 1945
Courtyards, scenic views, marine
Louisiana, Illinois. 1892 - 1967
Etching, engraving, painting
New York, Louisiana. 1926/28 - 2021
Large-scale kinetic sculpture
Louisiana, Florida. 1930 - 2022
Mod figure, interior painting, sculpture
Louisiana / Spain. Born 1938
Painting
Mississippi. 1890 - 1980
Portrait and landscape painting, illustration
Louisiana, Massachusetts. 1861 - 1939
Landscape painting, etching, teaching
Louisiana. 1936 - 2020
Rural genre-naive
Louisiana. 1861 - 1925
Landscape-riverine and portrait painting, teaching, museum director
Louisiana, New York. 1927 - 2024
Abstraction, collage, gold leaf on clay, mixed media, teaching
Louisiana. 1897 - 1959
Regional scene-plantations, genre and marine painting, etching
Louisiana / France. 1801 - 1888
Portrait and genre painting
Louisiana. 1903 - 1964
Mod views-figures, cubist non ob
Mississippi, Virginia. Born 1944
Southern landscape, rural image painting
Louisiana, Texas. 1936 - 2015
Southern rural landscape painting, buildings, bayou wildlife, hunting
Louisiana. 1921 - 2014
Landscape, portrait, non objective
Louisiana. Born 1943
Symbolic imagery through Bodo figure
Louisiana. 1900 - 1995
Garden themed ceramics, figurines, landscape design, cotton plantation paintings
Louisiana. 1872 - 1925
Wildlife, still life, landscape painting
Louisiana. 1931 - 2019
Modernist-leaning landscape painting, printmaking
Louisiana. 1906 - 1983
Landscape-urban streets, etcher
Louisiana, California, Massachusetts. 1859 - 1939
Town-landscape, portrait, genre painting, art education
Louisiana. 1866 - 1953
Tonalist and luminous landscape painting-bayous, murals
Louisiana. 1940 - 2007
Kinetic sculpture-African American subjects
Louisiana / Mexico. 1750 - 1802
Portrait painting
Louisiana. 1854 - 1909
Forest landscapes, mountains, sailboats in harbor paintings, nocturnes, costume design
Louisiana / Gibraltar. 1847 - 1915
Landscape, still life and portrait painting, photographer