- City:
- Rayville, LA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Artist:
- Elsie Driggs
- Marked:
- No
Description
“LaSalle’s Quest for the Mississippi” was painted in 1939 by Elsie Driggs and “…depicts the story of LaSalle’s travels just before he discovered the mouth of the Mississippi” (Kimmerle, 2008, p. 37). Driggs painted primarily in the Precisionist style, although “she adjusted…in order to make the mural more suitable as a work of public art using a more narrative composition” in the post office mural (Fine Lines, 2009, p. 9).
Driggs began the study in 1936 as a watercolor on paper, and the completed work was hung in Rayville in 1939.
Source notes
Kimmerle, Constance. 2008. Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical. University of Pennsylvania Press.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on February 11, 2013.
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