Lot 337
Meyer Straus (American, 1831-1905, active New Orleans 1869-1875), "Louisiana Swamp", 1875, oil on academy board, signed and dated "M. Straus 1875" lower right, titled in pencil en verso, 9 3/8 in. x 12 1/4 in., in an antique molded giltwood and gesso frame. Note: This work closely relates to the major composition in the collection of the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, and was painted in 1875, the same year as the small work in the collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art from the collection of Roger H. Ogden, New Orleans, LA. The work at the Morris Museum of Art, titled "Bayou Teche " is a large composition with a boating group of moss gatherers and dense, finely rendered trees and foliage. The similar boat and figures on the bayou with moss-laden trees framing the scene indicate that the painting offered here may be a study for the Morris Museum masterpiece. Reference: Pennington, E.C., Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950, Pelican Publishing Co., 1991, p. 76 Pennington, E.C., A Southern Collection, Morris Museum of Art, 1992, p. 74-75 Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection, LSU Press, 1996, p. 24-25.
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