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220 St. Mary’s Assumption, 1998 Ink, watercolor, and gouache; 24 x 32 in. Collection of Jim Blanchard ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA JIM BLANCHARD b. 1955, Thibodaux, Louisiana To artist Jim Blanchard, the vernacular and classical architecture of South Louisiana of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are grand and eloquent expressions of the human aesthetic. Throughout his career Blanchard has created an impressive body of art that records the architectural masterpieces of these previous centuries. His pen-and-ink drawings and paintings done in watercolor and gouache are executed with the precision of an architect’s illustration, yet they are rendered with the elegance of an artist. “I call them architectural archival watercolors,” said Blanchard. “They’re archival because they are three-dimensional and measured scale models of buildings.” Blanchard studied and was influenced by the works of Louisiana artists such as Marie Adrien Persac, William Buck, Boyd Cruise, Marshall Smith, George Coulon, and Joseph Rusling Meeker. JRK  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1214 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1214

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