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252 Glen Thompson, 1983 Photograph; 9 x 9 in. Ogden Museum of Southern Art Gift of Roger H. Ogden Collection ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA GEORGE DUREAU b. 1930, New Orleans, Louisiana George Dureau, a quintessential New Orleans artist, also is a regionally and nationally recognized painter, sculptor, and photographer. He is recognized for his focus on the human figure, often the male nude, presented in paintings, drawings, and charcoal sketches alluding to classical art forms, especially Renaissance and Baroque art, such as Three Maenads and a Centaur. Dureau’s photographs of nudes, street people, and the maimed and deformed have also brought acclaim. Beyond New Orleans, however, Dureau’s reputation as a photographer is more prominent than his reputation as a painter. Edward Lucie Smith, writing about Dureau’s photography in 1983, noted that “it is probable that many more people know his photographs than are familiar with his paintings and drawings,” due, in part, to the fact that “Dureau’s striking work in the medium appears in an increasing number of books and magazines.” JRG  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1242 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1242

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