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Day 5 - LSU Museum of Art

by SP on March 8th, 2007

Painting by Caroline Durieux Today we spend the day strolling the halls of the LSU Museum of art. Over 4000 items can be found illustrating both British and American culture, with a strong influence of Louisiana throughout. Everything from paintings, furnature, pottery, metal work and more.

The Anglo-American Art Museum opened in 1962 in the Memorial Tower on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus. The museum and its collection were established through a generous gift to LSU in 1959 from an anonymous donor who wished to support an institution that would illustrate British and continental influences on early American art and culture in the South. The museum’s significant collection of American and British portraiture, furniture, and decorative arts grew from this foundation.

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