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1936, he submitted designs for a mural in Indianola, Mississippi, which was never completed. After a series of psychiatric incidents and periods of hospitalization during the late 1930s and early 1940s, Walter and his family lived in Gautier, Mississippi, and then settled in the Ocean Springs family compound near Shearwater Pottery. He remained active in his art throughout this period, and became increasingly engaged in a visionary approach to nature and the evolution of his art, marking his as a unique career and aesthetic path in the art world of the South. In 1943, Walter visited New Orleans and completed sketches of the city, which he later painted in watercolor in Mississippi, including People and Cars (1943) and Woman and Cars (1943), using the geometric ordering system, based upon the principles of Adolfo Best Maugard and Jay Hambidge’s system of “Dynamic Soon after, on November 30, 1965, he died in New Orleans, following an operation for lung cancer. Today his existing murals and much of his art are preserved at the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, which opened in 1991, near Shearwater Pottery.8 A different and no less contemporary vision became evident during these years in the photographs of Clarence John Laughlin, created in New Orleans and in the Louisiana plantation area along River Road, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Laughlin was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1905, and moved with his family to New Orleans as a child. He remained there until his death in 1985, except for brief periods in New York in the early 1940s and Washington during World War II. As John Lawrence has noted, in addition to being called an Symmetry.” In 1951, he painted a series of murals in the new Ocean Springs Community Center, and began a private mural cycle in his Ocean Springs home and studio. Around this time he started painting and sojourning on nearby Horn Island, which served as the major focus of his later art and life. In 1955 he was given an exhibition at Newcomb College, then he returned to New Orleans in 1962 to paint scenes of Mardi Gras and a series based upon the animals he studied at the Audubon Zoo. In 1965, he returned to New Orleans and the Audubon Zoo once again and painted tropical birds and other animals. 188 ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA IDA KOHLMEYER (b. 1912, New Orleans, Louisiana – d. 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana) Synthesis, 1983 Mixed media on canvas; 52 x 85 in. Roger H. Ogden Collection enigma, Laughlin has been described as “a surrealist, a romantic, a modernist, or a fantasist,” yet none of those titles, he concludes, fully encapsulates Laughlin’s creative range and vision.9 During the early 1940s, as World War II unfolded, Laughlin created  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=582 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1287 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1287

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