Colonel Barton Paintings

Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...

Charming painting of a Mediterranean town, two men untangle a fishnet while beach goers frolic on the shore, circa 1940. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displaye...

French mid-century gouache painting on paper of industrial skyline with bridge in foreground. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...

Lone tree gouache painting with light green colors and aqua painted doors on grey paper by French artist RB, 1960. Signed and dated on lower right....

French watercolor painting of a crumbling, overgrown tower set beside a small village, circa 1960. Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archiva...

Rustically charming watercolor on brown paper of an impressive oak tree by German artist Karl Teodor, 1943. Unsigned. Original vintage one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a ...

Vintage gouache of a colorful field scene in Madagascar, Africa, by French artist Stéphane Magnard (1917-2010), circa 1950. Stéphane Magnard was the painter for the colonial govern...

Framed dimensions are 16 x 20 inches Without an overt theme, Errol Barron’s recent work seeks primarily to convey the pleasures and mysteries of curiosity, speculation, and reflecti...

French watercolor and ink painting of a snowy landscape reflecting the coral light of sunrise, 1955. Signed and dated lower right. Displayed ...

Watercolor painting by Stephane Magnard of a harbor on the coast of France. This atmospheric maritime scene captures a row of dark wooden pilings stretching across the harbor, thei...

Watercolor on paper

Framed sized is 16 x 20 inches. Framed in a white oak frame. In any landscape there are places and objects of quiet monumentality so ingrained into the scene that they are nearly invisible or regarded only as ordinary or outdated artifacts of the past. Some are small in scale, and some suggest a kind of architectural grandeur mixed with a pathos stemming from their obsolete utility and the evidence they bear of the passage of time. Some, like the abandoned oil rigs in and around the Gulf of Mexico, are poignant reminders of environmental optimism and tragedy. Primarily encountered on trips around our region, stretching up as far as the delta of northwestern Mississippi and southeastern Arkansas and as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi, these places and objects evoked the curiosity and affection, which prompted this show. The paintings, the result of a labor-intensive technique requiring many layers of color, are intimately sized though they often deal with subjects of great scale. Trained as an architect and a practicing architect until 2016, Barron now works primarily as a painter. For many years he has taught at the Tulane University School of Architecture and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Louisiana Architects Association and in 1995 was awarded the prestigious Gabriel Prize from the Western European Architecture Foundation. Errol Barron...