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Bird’s Nest, 1987 Watercolor on paper; 33 x 42 in. New Orleans Museum of Art George S. Frierson Jr. Fund 236 ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA HENRY CASSELLI b. 1946, New Orleans, Louisiana When art historians and critics describe Henry Casselli’s paintings, they invariably turn to Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, or Thomas Eakins for comparison. Those influences are there, but all agree his paintings have a sense of the human spirit uniquely his own. It is a style that was born on the battlefields of Vietnam and has since traveled from the launching pad of the space shuttle Columbia at Cape Canaveral to the White House and his official portrait of President Ronald Reagan. Along the way, he has become one of the most highly regarded watercolorists in the nation. JRK  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1225 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1225

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