The gallery’s Tulane University Art Collection is a teaching collection that includes outstanding examples of Louisiana portraiture, neo-classical sculpture, and prints from all periods. Examples of works on paper held in the collection may be seen HERE.


PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE

The university's collection of paintings and sculpture includes a diverse array of subjects, artists, and styles. Portraiture is well represented with works by colonial-era painter José Francisco Salazar, Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp, Kentucky artist William Edward West, and Ohio-born Herman Gustave Herkomer. Also in the collection are two notable landscapes including a depiction of New Orleans' bustling antebellum waterfront by French painter Hippolyte Sebron and a tranquil river scene by Barbizon artist Jean-Baptiste-Camile Corot. Allegorical works such as John Gadsby Chapman's rendering of two Old Testament heroines and Randolph Rogers' neo-classic American sculpture of Chateaubriand's star-crossed lovers are also held by the university. Sculptural works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Crawford, Paul Manship, and Angela Gregory are also represented.





José Francisco Xavier Salazar y Mendoza (Mexican, active New Orleans c. 1782-1802), Portraits of Don Carlos Trudeau and Senora Carlos Trudeau, c. 1795, oil on canvas, 35 ¾ x 27 in., Gift of the Children of Angela Labatut Puig

William Edward West (American 1788-1857), Portrait of Catherine Charlotte Surget Bingaman, 1818, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 in., Linton-Surget Collection

Hippolyte Victor Valentine Sebron (French 1801-1897), Giant Steamboats at Sugar Levee, New Orleans, 1853, oil on canvas, 47 x 71 in., Gift of D. H. Holmes Company, New Orleans

Randolph Rogers (American 1825-1892), Atala and Chactas, 1854, marble, 60 x 31 x 31 in., Gift of Virgina C. Montgomery

John Gadsby Chapman (American 1808-1889), Ruth and Naomi, 1855, oil on canvas, 52 x 37 in., Linton-Surget Collection

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French 1796-1875), Boatman on a Riverbank, Evening, c. 1850-60, oil on canvas, 11 1/16 x 16 3/8 in., Gift of Joseph J. and Norma Hoagland

Herman Gustav Herkomer (American 1862-1935), Portrait of Mrs. J. Walker Fern [Fanny Hewitt Fearn], 1900, oil on canvas, 49 ½ x 39 ½ in., Gift of Princess Mary Walker Fearn French Wolkonsky

Questions regarding these works and others in the collection should be addressed to the Registrar for University Collections, tstrider@tulane.edu or 504.257.1577.

TUAC photographs by Owen Murphy.