Lot 858
Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827-1887), "Louisiana Bayou", oil on canvas, signed lower left, stenciled artist plaque on frame, 12. 5in. x 20.5in., in a period Aesthetic giltwood frame. E8000/12000 Note: Joseph Meeker received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City where he studied with famed Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand. During the Civil War, he traveled down the Mississippi River, as a Union Navy paymaster. In his free time, he sketched and studied the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. Meeker probably painted "Louisiana Bayou" while living in St. Louis, Missouri There he did well as a painter of southern landscapes based largely on his drawings done in the military. Meeker's paintings were also influenced by the nineteenth century's waning romanticism and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline". Ref: Brown, C. Reynolds, Joseph Rusling Meeker; Images of the Mississippi Delta, exhibition catalogue, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, 1991.
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