New Orleans Street Scene

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Rolland Golden
New Orleans Street Scene
1957

About the Item

This artwork "New Orleans Street Scene" 1957 is a watercolor by renown New Orleans artist Rolland Harve Golden, 1931-2019. It is signed at the lower right corner. The artwork size is 19 x 13.5 inches, framed is 33 x 26.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and off white matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born in New Orleans in 1931, Golden was among a generation of artists in the mid-20th century mentored by John McCrady, a noted regionalist who founded an art school on Bourbon Street in 1942. Golden, a Korean War veteran, enrolled at the academy in 1955 with financial aid from the GI Bill and became part of the thriving bohemian art colony in the French Quarter, befriending the likes of surrealist Noel Rockmore and Larry Borenstein, a gallerist whose Creole townhouse eventually became home to the Preservation Hall jazz band. Fellow graduates of the McCrady School of Art include Ida Kohlmeyer, Alan Flattman, and Henry Casselli. Golden’s work was first displayed at the Delgado Museum of Art (now the New Orleans Museum of Art) in 1957 as part of an annual exhibition of the Art Association of New Orleans. In 1964, he caught the attention of Hollywood actor and art collector Vincent Price, who had been hired by Sears Roebuck to travel the nation in search of artists whose work could be reproduced for sale in the retailer’s department stores. Though initially wary of mass commercialism, the career break allowed Golden to achieve financial independence as a fine artist. Throughout his childhood, Golden’s family moved frequently across the South, from Louisiana to Mississippi and Alabama and back again. “I didn’t realize it at the time,” Rolland told Southwest Art magazine in 1978, “but the beauty of the rural South was making quite an impact on my young mind.” These landscapes include familiar scenes of cotton fields, meandering rivers, sharecropper shacks, wildflower meadows, Spanish moss-draped woods, and lonely rural highways. Travel would expose Golden to other locales that he captured on canvas, from the Arizona desert and New England beaches, where he would spend summers, to the French countryside. In the 1970s, Golden’s work included two series with edgier themes. In Demolition by Neglect, he captured scenes of 19th-century buildings being razed in the Central Business District of New Orleans. His Civil War series of the same era drew parallels between the conflict in Vietnam and America’s violent rift in the 1860s. In 1976, Golden was invited by the Soviet Union to exhibit 51 of his works in four Russian cities, becoming the first living American artist to achieve a solo show in the communist nation during the Cold War. The work of Rolland Golden is held in numerous private, public collections and museums, including: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, U.S.S.R., Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev & Odessa Bon Encontre Cultural Ctr., France New Orleans Museum of Art Ogden Museum of Southern Art The Historic New Orleans Mississippi Museum of Art The National Arts Club, N.Y. LSU Museum of Art Mississippi Art Museum Springfield Museum of Art Georgia Museum of Art Morris Museum of Art Masur Museum of Art Arkansas Arts Center Alexandria Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Louisiana’s Art in Public Places City of New Orleans Wichita Falls Museum New Orleans International Airport Central Louisiana Arts Center Ziger Museum of Art St. John’s Museum of Art Pfizer, Inc. Diamond B Construction Co. Ochsner Foundation New Orleans Art Association Baton Rouge Art Association Unifirst Bank & Savings Alabama Power Company Columbia Pictures Cox Communications Louisiana Bank & Trust Plymouth Savings Bank Mississippi Bank City Nat’l Bank Of Baton Rouge Deposit Guaranty Bank, MS. First Nat’l Bank Of Commerce

Creator:
Rolland Golden
Creation Year:
1957
Dimensions:
Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 26.25 in (66.68 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
Medium:
Watercolor
Movement & Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
San Francisco, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: gol/new/orl/011stDibs: LU66638216242