Posted 14 years ago
greeneyedl…
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My husband inherited this about 20 yrs. ago. It belonged to his grandparents & they lived in Louisiana. My husband is nearly 60 & he remembers this from when he was a small child. To me it looks very dark. It may need to be cleaned.
Is it signed?
It looks like it's signed in pencil & kind of hard to read, but I think it says A.J. Drysdale.
I found this on his paintings.
"AJ Drysdale was the premiere atrist of NOLA after WW1. His paintings can fetch up to $2,000 today. His major works were: DH Holmes Res. mmurel, Union train station murel, and Lakefront Airport murel. He rode his bike and hawked his paintings daily to feed his drinking problem. Most painting are of the greeny moss and oak variety. He has a beautiful sereies of blueish painting available to view at the Saint Mary's Dominical College alumni office on Saint Charles ave.
He would on occassion, do a grand portrait in oil on a large canvas in thanks to a family of prominence that supported him (has is the case of my cousin, who has a beautiful on eof his mother by AJ). I love his work and have one piece given to me by my cuz.
It was not uncommon for many NOLA families to have 4 or so Drysdales in their closet from years past. He sold his work cheap when alive and lived off the big commissions that the city of NOLA provided for him for his murel work."
From the different sites I went to, it looks like his work to me. Here is a live auction on his works. Keep in mind yours is an oil, a good deal of this work was watercolor
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7037889
Thank you for the info, vestaswind. And, you said to keep in mind that mine is an oil. Does that make it more or less valuable?
Really I have no idea. You have a head start though. Good luck!