Caroline Wogan Durieux papers, 1929-1981.

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Caroline Wogan Durieux papers, 1929-1981.

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Caroline Durieux's papers include personal and professional correspondence, printed items, and photographs of Durieux and her art work which document her artistic career and career in art education at LSU. Correspondence reflects her private and professional relationships with major art institutions and personalities including Carl Zigrosser, Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts. Later correspondence and printed items relate primarily to Durieux's experiments with electron and cliche verre print-making processes. Early documents pertain to biographical information and exhibits in Mexico and the United States. Printed items consist of magazine articles, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings and manuscript and typescript documents commenting on Durieux's work and chronicling her career. Highlights of the series include two signed manuscript items, one a statement by Durieux and the other a critique by Mexican modernist Diego Rivera. The graphic series contains approximately 85 photographs of Durieux's lithographs, cliche verres, electron prints and paintings. The series also contains several untitled electron prints, a cliche verre positive, a sketchbook and photographs of Durieux.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975

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Curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1941 to 1963; noted expert on print-making; founded in 1919 and directed the Weyhe Gallery in New York; contributed to and edited the Modern School Magazine in the second half of the 1910s. First wife: Florence King; child: Carola (born 1917). Second wife: Laura Canadè€ (married in 1946). Zigrosser died in 1975. From the description of Carl Zigrosser papers, circa 1891-1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record...

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957

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Mexican painter and muralist. From the description of Declaration in connection with a watercolor and a drawing sold to Mrs. Schwartz, 1934 March 7, Mexico City. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81939422 Diego Rivera, a renowned Mexican mural painter, was commissioned by Mrs. Samuel Strong in 1935 to paint a portrait of her friend, Kathleen Burke, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Receipt from Diego Rivera, 1935 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Durieux, Caroline, 1896-1989

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Printmaker; Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From the description of Caroline Durieux interviews, 1978 June 1-June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185729 Lithographer, painter, and educator (Baton Rouge, La.). From the description of Caroline Durieux papers, [ca. 1900-1979]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565539 Caroline Wogan Durieux (1896-1989), a New Orleans native of Creole descent, was a celebrated Louisiana artist of the twentieth century who taught...