The works of Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keefe and a slew of American masters are taking up residence in Baton Rouge for the next few weeks.
Their paintings are part of “Copley to Warhol: 200 Years of American Art,” the latest exhibit to come to the LSU Museum of Art. According to the museum’s website, the exhibit “commemorates the artistic contributions of some of the most well-known American museum.”
“Copley to Warhol” began in Shreveport, then visited Alexandria and Lafayette before coming to the capital city.
“[Baton Rouge] is the last place the exhibit will be shown in Louisiana,” Mault said.
The exhibit is organized differently at the LSU museum than it was at previous stops.
“Before, it was just displayed in chronological order,” Mault said. “What we did was make historical chapters of the art, and within those chapters it’s organized work.”
Sully painted the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the bill.
“Sometimes you just don’t know their names off the top of your head, but you’ll recognize it when you see the art,” she said.
Other artists include John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Lee Krasner, with Southern artists Richard Clague, Joseph Rusling Meeker and John McCrady.
“These artists are master artists in every facet of the word,” Mault said. “[The exhibit] helps you know who these artists were and the leaps and bounds that they took when influencing art over the last 200 pictures.”
She said this was because it’s different to see a painting on a computer screen than to see it in person.
“When you see them in real life, it has a different impact,” Mault said. “You can see the different strokes in the