- Ogden Museum of Southern Art
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Coordinates: 29°56′37″N 90°04′17″W / 29.9437°N 90.0714°W
Ogden Museum of Southern Art 
Old Library building, Confederate Hall, and Ogden Museum of Art
Location within LouisianaEstablished 2003 Location 925 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Type Art museum Collection size 4000+ Curator David Houston Website ogdenmuseum.org The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in New Orleans, within the Central Business District adjacent to Lee Circle. It is associated with the University of New Orleans. Its focus is the visual arts and culture of the American South within the context of the region's history and culture.
Collection
Area from which the museum draws its collection
The collection consists of work by artists from or associated with fifteen southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia.[1] It is based upon the founding donation of more than 1,100 works from New Orleans businessman Roger H. Ogden's private collection. Since this original donation the museum’s collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, wood and crafts has grown to include more than 4,000 works donated from individuals and collectors from across the US.[2]
The collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Southern art in the world and embodies the visual heritage and history of the American South from 1733 to the present. Among the many artists represented in the museum’s collection are John Alexander, Walter Anderson, Benny Andrews, Clementine Hunter, William Dunlap, Ida Kohlmeyer, Eugene J. Martin, Will Henry Stevens, Kendall Shaw, Hunt Slonem and George Ohr. The museum also includes the Center for Southern Craft and Design, the Stephen Goldring Hall, which opened in 2003, and two buildings under construction and renovation: the Clementine Hunter Education Wing and the Patrick F. Taylor Library, designed by American 19th-century architect, Henry Hobson Richardson.
The Museum has permanent galleries and changing exhibitions throughout the year.
References
- ^ David Houston (2006-07-31). The Art of the South 1890-2003:The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Scala Publishers. ISBN 978-1857593259.
- ^ "Ogden Museum of Southern Art". New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation. http://www.neworleansonline.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1276. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
External links
Categories:- Museums in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Museums of American art
- University museums in Louisiana
- Art museums in Louisiana
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