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Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux

Caroline Spellman Wogan Durieux (1896 - 1989) was active/lived in Louisiana.  Caroline Durieux is known for Satirical themed lithography, cartoon-caricature, drawing, painting.

Caroline Durieux, of New Orleans, attended Sophia Newcomb College in her hometown. She went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and later worked with Diego Rivera in Mexico.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Durieux became a well-known lithographer and social satirist in the tradition of George Grosz and Honore Daumier. Her sharp eyes and graphic lines punctured pomposity and exposed human foibles in scenes of Louisiana life.

She served as director of the Federal Art Project for the state of Louisiana between 1938 and 1943, and then joined the faculty of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Durieux began to experiment with abstract art, and became an innovator of new technical methods in printmaking. Working with nuclear scientists at the university, she developed the technology of the electron print, created by drawing with radioactive ink.

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