In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald, with essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady
Julien Hudson, born in 1811 in New Orleans, was the son of a property-owning free woman of color and a white English merchant, ironmonger, and ship chandler. Hudson began painting in the mid-1820s, training first in New Orleans and later in Paris. Little is known about his personal life, outside of scattered details found in a handful of public documents and a pair of early 20th-century reminiscences by former student George Coulon and prominent Creole of color Rodolphe Desdunes. This carefully researched volume is the most thorough examination to date of Julien Hudson and his world.
Details
- Edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald, with essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady
- Published 2010 by HNOC
- Hardcover • 8" × 9½" • 128 pp.
- 70 color images; 7 b&w images
- ISBN: 978-0-917860-57-7
Praise for In Search of Julien Hudson
[T]he show and its terrific catalog do a neat job of puncturing the mythology that has built up around Hudson and the peculiarly compelling portrait he painted. But it replaces it with a much juicier, more substantial picture of the artist in his context.
—Boston Globe
This exhibition catalogue is a remarkable piece of detective work and contextualization, and it is the most thorough examination to date on Hudson and his milieu.
—Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald, with essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady
Julien Hudson, born in 1811 in New Orleans, was the son of a property-owning free woman of color and a white English merchant, ironmonger, and ship chandler. Hudson began painting in the mid-1820s, training first in New Orleans and later in Paris. Little is known about his personal life, outside of scattered details found in a handful of public documents and a pair of early 20th-century reminiscences by former student George Coulon and prominent Creole of color Rodolphe Desdunes. This carefully researched volume is the most thorough examination to date of Julien Hudson and his world.
Details
- Edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald, with essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady
- Published 2010 by HNOC
- Hardcover • 8" × 9½" • 128 pp.
- 70 color images; 7 b&w images
- ISBN: 978-0-917860-57-7
Praise for In Search of Julien Hudson
[T]he show and its terrific catalog do a neat job of puncturing the mythology that has built up around Hudson and the peculiarly compelling portrait he painted. But it replaces it with a much juicier, more substantial picture of the artist in his context.
—Boston Globe
This exhibition catalogue is a remarkable piece of detective work and contextualization, and it is the most thorough examination to date on Hudson and his milieu.
—Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide