The LSU Museum of Art is located on the fifth floor of the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge. The Museum houses 14 galleries showcasing a variety of exhibitions including artwork from the permanent collection as well as revolving, temporary exhibitions. The Museum’s permanent collection of 4500 + pieces includes 17th to 20th century portraiture; New Orleans silver; Newcomb pottery and crafts; LSU former and current faculty and students; and modern and contemporary Southern paintings, drawings and sculpture.
Portraiture and Decorative Arts
The LSU Museum of Art collection features seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century portraits by key artists who influenced the development of portraiture in Western art, particularly in England and the United States of America. Examples include portraits by celebrated British artists Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Hogarth. American artists represented in the collection include Benjamin West and Rembrandt Peale. Louisiana, such as Jacques Amans, George Peter Alexander Healy, and Alfred Boisseau, represent the development of regional portraiture. Notable twentieth-century artists represented in this collection include Diego Rivera, Clementine Hunter, Yousuf Karsh and Judy Cooper.
Representations: Constructing Identity from Hogarth to MySpace is an installation of portraits and objects from the permanent collection the notion of representation and self-representation in portraiture.
The portraits are presented as reflections of people’s values, beliefs, and the images they wanted to present to others. Viewers are also invited to consider their own personal forms of representations through the popular internet site MySpace.
Newcomb Pottery and Crafts
LSU Museum of Art owns a rich collection of pottery, metalwork and works on paper by the famed artists of Newcomb College in New Orleans. Firmly rooted in the principles of the Arts and Crafts tradition, the potters, weavers and designers of Newcomb are among the most widely celebrated Louisiana Artists. Included in this gallery are vases by Sadie Irvine and Irene Borden Keep, silverwork by Rosalie Roos Weiner, sculpture by Angela Gregory and works on paper by Ellsworth Woodward and William Henry Stevens.
One gallery of the museum is dedicated to the collection of Chinese jade from the Chi Qing dynasty period (1644–1911) given by Dr. James R. and Ann A. Peltier. These jades represent three major functions of Chinese art – religious, decorative, and intellectual – and many of them serve more than one function at once. Each is carved out of a single piece of jade and represents the extraordinary skill of the carvers.
The LSU Art Past and Present gallery is dedicated to the display of works by current and past LSU art professors and their students. This is a flexible and ever-evolving space with exhibitions that change once or twice a year. Each new exhibition celebrates the great depth of talent association with the fine arts programs at LSU through the years. This gallery is a testament to the cooperative bonds between the LSU College of Art & Design and the LSU Museum of Art. The current installation mixes objects from the museum’s permanent collection by painters Robert Hausey, Michael Crespo and printmakers Paul Dufour and Caroline Durieux with works on loan from Kelli Scott Kelley including her recently completed video project Bird and Squirrel.
LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts
100 Lafayette Street – Fifth Floor
Baton Rouge, LA 70801
225-389-7200
Hours of Operation:
Tues – Sat 10am – 4pm
Thurs 10am – 8pm
Sun 1pm – 5pm
FREE the First Sunday of the month and Second Saturday of the month from 10am – 2pm. Closed Monday and ALL Major Holidays.
Admission:
$8 Adults
$6 Seniors 65+
$6 LSU Facility/staff & students with ID
$4 Children 5 to 17
Children under 5 Free
$2 per child – School Programs
Discounts are available for groups.
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