Rolland Golden: The Journeys of a Southern Artist - Hardcover

John R. Kemp

9781589802902: Rolland Golden: The Journeys of a Southern Artist

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158980290X ISBN 13: 9781589802902

Publisher: Pelican Publishing, 2005

This collection chronicles almost two hundred works created over four decades and two continents, including paintings of the French Quarter, the rural South, the Appalachian Mountains, the streets of New York, the wooded New England landscape, and the villages and meadows of southern France.

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From the Publisher:

"He offers a new way of seeing and understanding the places we inhabit." --M. Stephen Doherty, editor in chief, American Artist

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"He offers a new way of seeing and understanding the places we inhabit."
--M. Stephen Doherty, editor in chief, American Artist

While his canvases portray a vast range of geographic sites from the rural South, the Appalachian Mountains, the streets of New York, the wooded New England landscape, and the villages and meadows of southern France, Rolland Golden brings a certain sensitivity to his landscapes that only a Southern artist with long ties to the land can bring. This collection chronicling his personal and artistic journeys includes almost two hundred works created over four decades and two continents. Whether he is portraying the decay of the French Quarter in his native New Orleans or capturing a golden afternoon while on a Proven�al holiday, Rolland Golden's work depicts not only the view before him but also reflects the observer's emotional landscape.

Golden's career as a professional artist began in 1957. He is a three-time recipient of the National Arts Club First Place Award, a two-time winner of the Thomas Hart Benton Purchase Award, winner of the Winslow Homer Memorial Award, and many others. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally, including a one-artist show that toured the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977. His paintings appear in numerous private and public collections, including those of Columbia Pictures, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

This book includes a foreword by M. Stephen Doherty, editor in chief of American Artist magazine.

John R. Kemp, a New Orleans native, writes about New Orleans and Louisiana, their history and visual arts, for a number of regional and national magazines, including Art & Antiques, ARTnews, American Artist, Louisiana Life, and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. His books published by Pelican include Alan Flattmann's French Quarter Impressions and Vanishing Paradise: Duck Hunting in the Louisiana Marsh. He is also the author of Manchac Swamp: Louisiana's Undiscovered Wilderness, New Orleans: An Illustrated History, and others.

Mr. Kemp is a former staff writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Prior to his current position as deputy director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in New Orleans, Kemp served as associate commissioner for communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents for Higher Education.

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