36 Facts About Caroline Durieux

Caroline Wogan Durieux was an American printmaker, painter, and educator.

Caroline Durieux was a Professor Emeritus at both Louisiana State University, where she worked from 1943 to 1964 and at Newcomb College of Tulane University.

Caroline Durieux worked in watercolor from the age of six and at the age of 12 created a portfolio of ten watercolors depicting New Orleans scenery.

Caroline Durieux continued at Newcomb College of Tulane University in the Art School headed by Ellsworth Woodward.

In October 1920, the Caroline Durieux's moved to Havana, Cuba, where Pierre took a position with General Motors.

In late December 1920, Caroline Durieux returned to New Orleans to give birth to the couple's first and only child.

Caroline Durieux spends the next six months recuperating from postpartum complications at her parents' vacation home in Bay St Louis, Mississippi.

Caroline Durieux worked briefly in a design firm but spent most of her time creating paintings, drawings and watercolors of her colorful surroundings.

Caroline Durieux has said color, and most of her work from this period were still lifes, flowers and landscapes.

In 1926, her husband Pierre was named chief representative of General Motors for all of Latin America, but Caroline Durieux stayed and worked in Mexico City.

Caroline Durieux received a letter of introduction to Diego Rivera from Tulane anthropologist, Frans Blom, which helped ease her transition into the local artist community.

Eager to learn more about lithography, Caroline Durieux enrolled in the Academy of San Carlos to study with Emilio Amero.

In 1934, Caroline Durieux experimented with etching, a technique she learned from Howard Cook.

In 1937, Pierre Caroline Durieux was diagnosed with severe cardiac disease.

Caroline Durieux's doctors ordered him to return to the United States, so the couple left Mexico reluctantly and returned to New Orleans.

Later that year, Caroline Durieux was hired to teach in Newcomb College's art department for the fall term, where she focussed on ensuring that her students could draw before advancing to other classes.

In October 1937, Caroline Durieux exhibited her etching, Hunger, as a member of the Society of American Etchers.

Caroline Durieux took on a second job as director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in February 1939.

In 1948, Caroline Durieux collaborated with John McCrady and Ralph Wickiser on the book Mardi Gras Day, published by Henry Holt.

Caroline Durieux was a fixture at the Mardi Gras Day open house hosted by Lyle Saxon in the St Charles Hotel.

In 1976, Caroline Durieux was the first living artist to be honored with a retrospective of her work at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

At first Caroline Durieux had difficulty at the workshop because of her gender:.

Caroline Durieux studied with Desjobert for three months in 1952 and again in 1957.

Caroline Durieux had a keen interest in the political climate at home and abroad.

Caroline Durieux worked on color etching at Lacouriere-Frelaut which was founded in 1929.

In 1951, Caroline Durieux began experimenting with ink-coated microbes with the help of student Natalie Wheeler and her husband, LSU botanist Harry Wheeler.

In 1952, Caroline Durieux created the first electron print using radioactive ink.

Caroline Durieux was a gifted teacher and devoted mentor for her students first at Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans and then at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Caroline Durieux was absolutely amazing in her way of life and her way of thinking, the clarity of her mind and her presence of knowing what is and what isn't, what's real and what is illusionistic.

Caroline Durieux wrote them "this is a person you should have".

Caroline Durieux died on November 26,1989, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Caroline Durieux's papers are held at Louisiana State University and the Archives of American Art.

Also in 2018, the Hermes Mardi Gras parade superkrewe included a float titled Caroline Durieux that was inspired by Swine Maskers, one of the titular artist's lithographs from the book Mardi Gras Day.

Caroline Durieux was born into a mixed-religious marriage at a time when that was taken more seriously than it is today.

Caroline Durieux often referred to her father, Nicholas, as if he were officially excommunicated from the Catholic Church because of his marriage to her mother.

On Sundays Caroline Durieux would be taken to protestant services with her mother only to be whisked off to the "bells and smells" of the Catholic Cathedral's High Mass.