Alexander John Drysdale Watercolor Painting of Louisiana Bayou

Item Details

Alexander John Drysdale (American, 1870 – 1934)
Untitled (Louisiana bayou landscape), 1921
Watercolor painting on paper mounted on paperboard
Signed to the lower right

Born in Georgia, Alexander John Drysdale was a notable Southern artist who moved to New Orleans with his parents at age fifteen. He studied at the Southern Art Union under Ida Hackell, and later under Paul Poincy. The artist lived in New York for about five years, where he studied at the Art Students League under Charles C. Curran and Frank Vincent Dumond. Drysdale is especially known for his oil and watercolor Tonalist landscapes, often featuring Louisiana swamps, bayous, and other wetlands, rendered in an translucent, impressionistic manner. Some of his important commissioners include the New York Shushan Airport for which he painted a mural and the D.H. Holmes Department Store. Later in life, Drysdale was employed by the Civil Works Administration, and painted nearly 10,000 works in his lifetime. His work has been exhibited and collected by multiple institutions including the Deglado Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Historic New Orleans Collection, among others.

Condition

- tear through the lower center and to the lower right of painting; crack through painting to the left; tears throughout edges and to corners; toning to paper.

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ITMG177534