Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection
1996 · Baton Rouge, LA
by Delehanty, Randolph
Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1996. First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Large 4to. xi, (1), 292 pp. Profusely illustrated from color reproductions of the art works, maps. Selections from a collection assembled by Roger Ogden, a New Orleans lawyer and entrepreneur, "one of the finest collections of southern American art in the world ... from the early eighteenth century to the present." Included in the collections are works by Audubon, Minnie Evans, Walker Evans, the Newcomb school, Shapleigh, Alice R.H. Smith, Sully, and William Aikin Walker, among many others. 237 works from the 1200 item collection are described here, "[sketching] the story of visual art in the south." Fine. Gilt-stamped two-tone cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (9128). (Inventory #: 62414)