Degas and New Orleans
Subtitle: a French Impressionist in America
By: Gail Feigenbaum ; catalogue by Jean Sutherland Boggs ; essays by Christopher Benfey ... [et al.].
Contributors: Boggs, Jean Sutherland.; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ordrupgaardsamlingen.
Publisher: New Orleans Museum of Art ; [Copenhagen] : Ordrupgaard; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Exhibitions; Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Travel -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Exhibitions; New Orleans (La.) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Edgar Degas is admired today as the quintessential artist of Paris: painter of ballet dancers, bathers, and laundresses, of the racetrack and the theater. Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America explores a different Degas in another place: a sojourner with his family in New Orleans, on the unique occasion when the subtlest and most advanced ideas of French painting alighted on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Degas and New Orleans accompanies a major exhibition that reassembles most of the fascinating art that Degas created during his visit and places this work in its remarkable context of family drama and American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301).
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La., May 1-Aug. 29, 1999, and at the Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Sept. 16-Nov. 28, 1999.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Edgar Degas, Almost a Son of Louisiana; title: GAIL FEIGENBAUM; title: Degas and New Orleans: Exorcizing the Exotic; title: CHRISTOPHER BENFEY; title: The Country for Men with Nerve; title: CHRISTINA VELLA; title: Franco-American Aspects of Degas's; title: A Cotton Office in New Orleans; title: MARILYN R. BROWN; title: A Tale of Two Families: The De Gas-Musson; title: Correspondence at Tulane University; title: MARILYN R. BROWN; title: New Orleans and the Work of Degas; title: JEAN SUTHERLAND BOGGS; title: Catalogue; title: JEAN SUTHERLAND BOGGS; title: Provenances; title: Checklist: Supplemental Objects; title: Appendix I: Degas's Family in New Orleans:; title: A Who's Who; title: JAMES B. BYRNES & VICTORIA COOKE; title: Appendix II: Degas's Letters from New Orleans; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Photograph Credits.