Art in New Orleans

Week 14 -- WPA in New Orleans

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INTRODUCTION TO THE SYDNEY AND WALDA BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN
2002 -- Tree of Necklaces, Jean-Michel Othoniel
--- The 1970's ---
1970's -- Robert Indiana, LOVE, Red Blue
1979 -- Three Figures and Four Benches, George Segal
1975 -- Reclining Mother and Child, Henry Moore
1973 -- Four Lines Oblique, George Rickey
1971 -- Una Battaglia, Arnaldo Pomodoro
1979-80 -- Two Sitting Figures, Lynn Chadwick
--- The 1960's ---
1967 -- The Labors of Alexander, René Magritte
1965 -- River Form, Barbara Hepworth
--- The 1990's ---
1999 -- Claes Oldenburg, Safety Pin
1999 -- Restrained (Horse), Deborah Butterfield
1995 -- Spider, Louise Bourgeois
1991 -- Joel Shapiro, Untitled
--- The 1980's ---
1989 -- Rebus 3D-89-3, Ida Kohlmeyer
1987 -- Standing Man With Outstretched Arms, Stephen De Staebler
1983 -- Pablo Casals Obelisk, Arman
1949-57 -- Sacrifice III, Jacques Lipchitz
Ossip Zadkine, La Poetesse
Week 8 -- Hyams Fountain, 1921
Quick Review -- Weeks 1 -- 7
Week 9
--- SECOND SEMESTER ---
Week 10 -- McFadden House -- 1920
Week 11 -- Reggie Bush Stadium
Week 11 -- Enrique Alferez -- City Park
Week 11 -- Enrique Alferez -- Fountain of the Winds
Week 12 -- Enrique Alferez -- Shushan Airport
Week 12 -- Enrique Alferez - marble chip and granite cast -- Molly Marine
Week 12 -- Story Land
Week 12 -- Blaine Kern -- Papier-mâché -- Mardi Gras Floats
Week 13 -- Hines Carousel -- Carved Wood
Week 13 -- New Orleans Museum of Art
Week 14 -- WPA in New Orleans
Week 15 -- Ida Kohlmeyer
Week 16 -- Review
Week 17 -- More Enrique Alfarez
Clark Mills -- Bronze Sculpture -- Andrew Jackson
Emmanuel Fremiet -- Joan of Arc
1897 - John McDonogh
Alexander Doyle - Margaret Haughery
Alexander Doyle -- Robert E. Lee
P.G.T. Beauregard
1860 - Henry Clay
Vietnam Veterans Monument
Louis Armstrong
Korean War Memorial
1910 - Jefferson Davis
1872 - Benjamin Franklin
Bienville
1957 - Simon Boliva
World War II
World War I
Lin Emery
Woldenberg Park
Clarence John Laughlin
John Churchill Chase -- The Rummel Raider
André Breton -- Surrealist
Chalmette Monument
Liberty Monument
Arthur Q. Davis -- The Super Dome
1909 -- Antoine Bourdelle, Hercules the Archer
Wrought ironwork
Sweetheart
Cemeteries
Caroline Wogan Durieux
Daniel French -- Copper & Bronze -- The Ladies
Edgar Degas
Audubon Park
balconies
COMPARATIVE TIMELINE
--- VOCABULARY ---
Abstract Expressionism
Abstraction
Academic
Art Nouveau (1880's -- 1920's)
Arts and Crafts Movement (1910 -- 1925)
Art Deco (1910 until 1939)
Baroque period
Beaux-Arts
biomorphic
Bronze
Classicism
Casting
Constructivism
Contemporary Art
Cubism
dynamism
expressionism
Futurism
Figurative Style
German Expressionism
Impressionist
Kinetic Sculpture
Minimalism
Mobile (sculpture)
Modern Art
Murano glass
Negative space
Neoclassical
New Deal
Nouveau Realism
Obelisk
Pop Art
Surrealist:
WPA [Works Progress Administration]
Curruiculm Objectives/Suggested Activities
Bibliography and Suggested Reading
Church Statues
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog (New Orleans)

What was the WPA?

Headquarters:

1939 -- New headquarters for Federal Art Project, 718 Toulouse St.

In Schools:

Art class conducted by WPA instructors for children at the Gentilly Terrace School.

1941 -- Metairie Country Day School

1941 -- Eleanor McMain High School

Another View

1941 -- Newman

Audubon Park:

A Relief...

1939 -- Chiseling figures on wall of tropical bird house, Audubon Park Zoo.

another view

and more

Relief Completed

1938 -- the hill erected by the WPA for children who play in the park

1936 -- Zoo. Large and small animals, monkeys, birds and those visitors who "see the sights" at Audubon Park are pleased with WPA removal, relocation and rebuilding of the zoo. Both animals and visitors have more room and superior ac comodations now since the zoo has been taken from the center of the park to the southwest corner and will be surrounded by an extensively landscaped and well developed zoological garden.

Murals:

1940 -- Murals -- WPA artists making mural at the Canal Street Branch of the New Orleans Public Library

and another view of the mural

Artist Painting the mural

Completed Mural

Original sketch for the mural

Posters:

1941 -- Copies of posters made by workers of the Art Project for national defense.

and another

and more

"See Your Artists at Work"

1941 -- WPA artists prepare posters for national defense program.

1941 -- "Welcome Defense Workers"

Printing Press, 2302 Barracks Street

Sculpture:

1941 -- Sculpture

Enrique Alferez -- City Park Sculptures

Enrique Alferez -- Fountain of the Winds, Shushan Airport

Painting:

1940 -- Paintings

Artist at Work

Good Example of One Point Perspective

Another Example of the use of perspective.

More Examples

One Point Perspective in Comics

Drawings:

1940 -- Mountainous seacoast

Crafts:

1936 -- Men making toys, 2218 St. Thomas Street.

1936 -- General view of needle craft work (women) at Dibert Hospital.

Ceramics

Furniture -- at the Crossroads Home, 1332 Perdido Street.

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SegalAndMe.jpg Edit Picture

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