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Avery Island Salt Mines, 1934 Oil on canvas; 23 x 30 in. Ogden Museum of Southern Art Gift of the Roger H. Ogden Collection 166 LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY PAUL NINAS b. 1903, Leeton, Missouri d. 1964, location unknown Paul Ninas, often described as the “Dean of Modern Art” in New Orleans, lived and worked in the city from 1932 until his death in 1964. As a young man, he studied engineering only to be seduced by a new world of art emerging in Europe and the United States just after World War I. After years of sojourning in France, Algeria, and Dominica, Ninas—and his peculiarly European style—found a sympathetic audience in New Orleans for his work, especially among writers, artists, and other French Quarter bohemians. His lyrical paintings and drawings of street and market scenes, gas stations, ice cream parlors, local industries, wharves, and everyday life in the city and countryside are time-tested classics. These were the same types of subjects glorified by the American Scene, among Regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and, locally, by John McCrady, Conrad Albrizio, Charles Reinike, and Xavier Gonzalez. Perhaps Ninas’ best known painting from this era is his Cezanne-esque Avery Island Salt Mines with its sharp, angular roof lines and suggestive Cubism. JRK  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1321 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1321

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