Lot 93
Joseph Rusling Meeker (American/Louisiana, 1827-1889), "Bayou Plaquemines, Louisiana", 1884, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 18 in. x 30 in., in a carved and giltwood frame. Note: Joseph Rusling Meeker was a master at depicting the ethereal atmosphere and variations of light of Louisiana's swamps and bayous. In the painting offered here, Meeker contrasts a luminous sky with the dark, finely detailed trees creating a strong chiaroscuro effect and accurately portraying the time of day. A smaller but similar composition from the Roger H. Ogden collection, and now in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, has the same central grouping of trees and expansive landscape in the background. Reference: Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection, LSU Press, 1996, p. 20-21.
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