Louisiana Inspired

The visual arts have occupied a central place in the collecting mission of the Louisiana State Museum since its founding in 1906, and Louisiana Inspired allows visitors to glean a profound sense of more than two centuries of the state’s history and culture. The exhibition shows the stylistic range of our state’s art, including French neoclassicism in the 1830s and 1840s, sparked by the arrival of Jean-Joseph Vaudechamp and Jacques Amans; the Grand Manner style that predominated on the eve of the Civil War; mid twentieth-century modernism; and the socially conscious art of the early twenty-first century. louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/capitol-park-museum.