CELEBRATING THE ART OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH
What a Night! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026
O What An Auction! John Alexander Carlos Betancourt Dawn DeDeaux George Dunbar Doyle Gertjejansen
Live Auction Simon Gunning L. Kasimu Harris Herman Leonard Francis X. Pavy
Silent Auction
Gregory B. Saunders Allison Stewart Adam Trest John Isiah Walton Russell Whiting
a portion of auction proceeds supports participating artists
Leslie Addison Renée Allie Artemis Antippas David Armentor Nathalia Toledo Barcia Megan Barra Donald Beale Kadeshia Bellard Erin Bennett Thom Bennett Mark Bercier Josiah Bolth Sesthasak Boonchai Jeremiah Brown Marcus Brown Ryan Burns Owen Canter Leslie Charleville Kate Citrin Maude Schuyler Clay Langdon Clay Sophia Clay Paul Coffey Teresa Cole Michael Roque Collins James Constantine Anita Cooke Craig Crawford Justine Crowley Tony Dagradi
Stephen Paul Day Jenny Day Matthew Draughter William Dunlap Brandon Felix Jonathan Ferrara James Flynn Sarita Fonseca Lizz Freeman Mitchell Gaudet Sophia Germer Rosemary Goodell Cheryl Anne Grace Anne Guillot Ben Hamburger Lois Hebert Deniz Türkoğlu Hewes Jonathan R. Hodge Marcia B Holmes Horton Humble Susan Ireland Adda Jones Giani Jones Miles Jordan Kenneth (Kenny) Jordan Emre Karaoglu Frahn Koerner Sharon Kopriva Lily LaGrange Cameron Lartigue Megan Lightell
All auction items on view at onecau.se/owhatanight List as of October 2, 2026
Kay Breaux Livaudais Kaori Maeyama Francisco Magallán Sarah Martzolf Bonnie Maygarden Richard McCabe Kate McNee Michael Meads Joseph Miller Jen Morgan David Rae Morris Owen Neace Amy Newell Dung “Donkey” Nguyen Emi O’Brochta Sherry Owens Marcy Palmer Arturo Perez Olivia Luz Perillo Tyler Russell Karoline Schleh Matt Scobey Richard Sexton Elizabeth Shannon Mark Spiers Leslie Claire Spillman Trenity Thomas Gabrielle Tolliver José Torres-Tama George Yerger
O What an Auction! The live and silent artwork auctions at the O What A Night! Gala are the highlight of the evening, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art is grateful to the artists for sharing their creativity and generosity in support of the Museum. The silent auction is on view in the historic Patrick F. Taylor Library, and mobile bidding is open to all at onecau.se/owhatanight. The silent auction will close at 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 18. The live auction will start at approximately 9 p.m. in the tent adjacent to Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street. Please note that the Museum reserves the right to postpone the auction due to unforeseen circumstances, and that some items in the catalog have approximate sizes. Winners of the silent auction will be notified via email of their results and will receive information regarding pick up of auction items at the Museum the following week.
Absentee bidding available upon request. Please email development@ogdenmuseum.org for an absentee bid form. All forms must be submitted by 5 p.m. CT on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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Live Auction Lot 1
Russell Whiting
Oak Tree, 2025, Carved Steel, 12 x 21 x 10 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Orleans Gallery Just as Michelangelo unveils masterpieces hidden within stone, as though the marble itself whispers its potential to his hands, Russell Whiting uses a torch, chisel and grinder to reveal masterpieces from pieces of solid steel. With every strike of the chisel, every cut of the torch, he frees the soul of the sculpture, breathing life into the cold, solid, unyielding steel. An innovative and entirely unique recreation of sculptural methods using an entirely new technique, Whiting creates brilliant figurative works, abstracts, flora and fauna from his home and studios amongst the trees and attuned with nature in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Whiting also creates works in bronze by casting his innovative steel carvings, working in traditional casting methods including wax and clay, and creates mixed medium works using marble, stone, wood, bronze, steel and overpainting in brilliant and unique combinations. Whiting works brilliantly at any size, from desktop to monumental works. Whiting has shown across the country, with gallery representation in Maine, Georgia and Tennessee, and public works sculptures in prominent places across the United States. His work is in the collections of museums, major corporations, sculpture gardens and municipalities across the world. Whiting shares, “In 1990 I began using steel and techniques I had learned in the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico. Those techniques I have found to be unique to my process. Strongly influenced by classical forms, I have begun to recognize the validity of my own subconscious dialogue as an important source for my work. This fusion results in classicism with contemporary execution. The creation of my images is influenced by many factors: religion, ancient cultures, cinema, other artists, etc. The images are combined and mutated and reborn with no regard to logic or their cultural origins. I have never let an idea die, constantly going back over the sketchbooks and reviving older pieces. It’s a contradiction but the more I change, the more connected I become to my past. And of course the overall connective tissue to my work is the work (carved steel, my unique contribution to sculpture).”
Live Auction Lot 2
Allison Stewart
In the Bayou #2, ND, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery Trained as a biologist, Allison Stewart’s forty-year visual arts career has been steadfastly informed by our increasingly fragile environments and the ultimate interconnectedness of all living things. Using deep layers of color and texture to illustrate experiences of time and transformation, Stewart navigates the complex and often disturbing relationships between humans and nature. Activated in the liminal space between realism and abstraction, Stewart’s paintings are visual diaries upon which her responses to our threatened landscape are illuminated. Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Valley, and Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver. Her work is included in many public, corporate and private collections, including the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Freeport McMoRan, ARCO, American Express, Pan-American Life, and the Pensacola Museum of Art. Awards include fellowships and grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation, and artist-in-residence with Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. In 1998, Stewart and her late husband, artist Campbell Hutchinson, founded KID smART, a Louisiana non-profit arts organization that brings the visual and performing arts as teaching tools to under-resourced children in the public schools of New Orleans. Stewart holds a BS in Biology from Spring Hill College, and an MFA from the University of New Orleans. She has served on the faculty of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Loyola University, Delgado Community College, Aspen Museum of Art and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. She maintains studios in New Orleans and Snowmass Village, CO.
Live Auction Lot 3
Herman Leonard
Chet Baker, New York, 1956, Selenium-toned silver print, Edition 44/50, 16 x 20 inches, Courtesy of Herman Leonard Photography LLC Herman Leonard is widely considered the most important photographer of Jazz musicians after World War II. The fifteen years he lived in New Orleans was a period of particular significance to his career. Born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Leonard received his first Kodak Brownie camera at age 11, a moment that would define the trajectory of his life. At the University of Ohio, Leonard studied photography before serving in WWII, returning to earn his degree in 1947. After an apprenticeship with renowned photographer Yousef Karsh, Leonard opened his first studio in Greenwich Village in 1948. There, he photographed major figures of the emerging Bebop and Cool Jazz movements. Many of these icons became his close friends. Leonard’s atmospheric photographs of musicians playing their signature instruments came to represent one of the most significant bodies of work that documents this era in American Jazz history. In the late 1950s, Leonard left New York for Paris, where he photographed fashion and celebrities. After decades in Paris, Leonard relocated his family to Ibiza and began reevaluating his body of work. Leonard returned to the United States in 1989, living briefly in San Francisco before settling in New Orleans, where he quickly acclimated to the city’s cultural, artistic and musical rhythms. In 2005, Leonard was working with Ogden Museum on a major retrospective exhibition and publication when Hurricane Katrina took aim at the city of New Orleans. The Museum agreed to store Leonard’s massive negative archive, saving it from the storm’s destruction. Leonard’s home and studio in Lakeview, including most of his massive photography archive, were destroyed. In the wake of the storm, Leonard settled in Los Angeles. Herman Leonard died in Los Angeles on August 12, 2010.
Live Auction Lot 4
Private Portrait Commission with L. Kasimu Harris Courtesy of L. Kasimu Harris
Commission a private portrait by New Orleans–based artist L. Kasimu Harris, whose work is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and other institutions. The experience includes a private portrait session in New Orleans and one signed, framed 16 × 24-inch archival pigment print, selected and finished by the artist. Valid for one individual, couple, or family. Session to be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time within 12 months. Travel outside greater New Orleans, additional prints, and shipping or delivery of the finished artwork outside greater New Orleans are not included. Usage & Copyright: The artist retains all copyrights and reproduction rights in the commissioned photograph. The resulting artwork is intended for the purchaser’s personal display and enjoyment. Purchase does not convey publication, reproduction, licensing, advertising, promotional, commercial, or other usage rights. Any such use requires separate written permission from the artist. L. Kasimu Harris is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice uses various strategic and conceptual devices to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond. Harris has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US, two international exhibitions, and eight solo photography exhibitions. His series, Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges, (2018 - present) has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. Harris’s writing and/or photography on the series has been included in several publications, most notably for “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times. He debuted work from the series that explores Black bars & lounges from a national and international perspective. Harris is also one of 13 artists tapped for MoMA’s New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging, and five of his photos were acquired by the museum for their permanent collection. Harris serves on the Board of Trustees at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Live Auction Lot 5
Carlos Betancourt
The Worshipping of my Ancestors I, 2001, Pigmented inkjet print on Sintra board 52 1/2 x 48 inches, 1 A/P, Courtesy of the artist and Octavia Art Gallery For more than four decades, Carlos Betancourt has built a diverse practice that explores how personal experiences become part of a larger collective history. Through processes of accumulation and transformation, he treats images, objects and symbols as carriers of memory, continually reimagining them in the present. Working across photography, painting, collage, assemblage, sculpture, mixed media and large-scale installation, Betancourt draws deeply from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as Miami, Greece and Mexico—places whose environments, layered histories and cultural hybridity continue to inform his work. In his practice, the past is never fixed or distant; it resurfaces in new forms. Memory transforms, expands and endures across time and place, suggesting that nothing ever truly disappears but instead continues to evolve. Betancourt’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, including Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; the New Orleans Museum of Art; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; the San Antonio Museum of Art; The Bass; Museo de Arte de Ponce; and the Palm Springs Art Museum, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally and presented at major art fairs, including Art Basel, ARCO and ZONA MACO. His projects and exhibitions have been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, Gagosian Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum and ARTnews. Betancourt is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Bas Fisher Invitational Grant, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art People’s Choice Award and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. He has also worked as a curator and furniture designer and has collaborated extensively with architect Alberto Latorre. Betancourt was born in 1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is currently based in Miami. He is represented in New Orleans by Octavia Art Gallery.
Live Auction Lot 6
Doyle Gertjejansen
Africa, ND, Acrylic On Canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Callan Contemporary Doyle Gertjejansen received his MFA degree with a major in painting and minor in art history from the University of Minnesota. He has resided in New Orleans for most of his professional career, teaching and serving as chair, graduate coordinator, gallery director and other academic positions and duties at the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans his work has been represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery, Galerie Simonne Stern and, currently, Callan Contemporary. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center and the Arts Council of New Orleans, and served in many other positions in the community. His work has been exhibited in numerous oneperson and group exhibitions and is included in public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad. In 1996, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in painting and the Phi Kappa Phi South Central Artist’s Award. He has received numerous other grants, awards and honors, including a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship for painting and works on paper in 1999. Gertjejansen has been creating large-scale mixed-media abstractions for over four decades. His primary body of work also includes drawings and works on paper, sculpture and installations. The most recent work focuses on complex layers of abstract and pictorial imagery drawn from his personal history, the history of art, contemporary philosophy, science and other disciplines.
Live Auction Lot 7
John Isiah Walton
Portrait of Willie El LaFleur, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist John Isiah Walton was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works. He depicts subjects that are often unconventional and, at times, shocking. Walton works in a reactionary mode. His visual language is influenced by internet aesthetics, black identity, pop culture and Louisiana history. The frenetic, choppy brushwork endows the work with the energy and intensity that the artist is known for. Walton often uses wit and irony to address the constructs of race and class with both irreverence and sensitivity, merging politically correct discourse with politically incorrect humor. Walton has exhibited and continues to show in museums, galleries, art fairs and biennials worldwide. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MS); Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond, LA); The Front (New Orleans); P339 (Brooklyn, NY); Atlanta Contemporary Biennial (Atlanta); Barrister’s Gallery (New Orleans); Identity Books (Graham, NC); Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans); Tulane University (New Orleans); New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans); Art Lab Akiba (Ginza, Tokyo); Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles); Home Space (New Orleans), among others. His residencies include the Macedonia Institute (Chatham, NY) and the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans). Walton was the first African American member of the artist collective The Front and a founding member of both The Level Artist Collective and the Second Story Gallery. He has lectured about his work to the graduate program at UNC, Chapel Hill and has work in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Live Auction Lot 8
Adam Trest
A Good Day Found, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 72 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Orleans Gallery
Adam Trest was born in Louisiana and is a Mississippi-based painter and storyteller whose work celebrates the folklore, fauna and layered histories of the American South. With a background in illustration and a deep reverence for Southern landscapes, Trest creates visually rich compositions that blend pattern, narrative and nostalgia. His work has been featured in museums, galleries and national media, and he is known for translating regional culture into visual stories that resonate far beyond their roots. Whether painting a pack of dogs in motion or a still pond teeming with life, Trest invites his audience to slow down, look closely and find the story within the silence.
Live Auction Lot 9
George Dunbar
Paquet Series VIII, 2023, Yarn dyed linen bundles on linen panel, 24 x 26 inches, Courtesy of the Estate of George Dunbar and Callan Contemporary A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, George Dunbar graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in 1953 and went on to study at the Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. For most of his life, Dunbar lived and maintained a studio on Bayou Bonfouca outside of Slidell, Louisiana. Since his first exhibition in Philadelphia in 1953, Dunbar’s artwork has been displayed in museums and galleries around the world. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking Orleans Gallery and was later represented locally by Galerie Simmone Stern and Heriard-Cimino Gallery before joining Callan Contemporary. His exhibition history includes solo shows at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Hilliard Art Museum and Ogden Museum of Southern Art to name a few. His work has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the British Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Dunbar received the Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 for his contributions to art and culture in Louisiana. He was also awarded the Delgado Society’s Distinguished Art Award by the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2001. In 2022, he was honored by Ogden Museum of Southern Art with the Opus Lifetime Achievement Award. He taught at 331 Art School in New Orleans and was artist-in-residence at both Isidore Newman School and Tulane University.
Live Auction Lot 10
John Alexander
Bad Boy, 2026, Lithograph with watercolor and color pencil handwork, 37. 75 x 22 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery John Alexander, a skilled draftsman and a sharpeyed satirist, has spent a career rendering the dark side of man, the glorious side of nature and the destruction of both. He describes his work as a “glimpse of paradise before the wrecking ball hits.” His keenly observed nature drawings and paintings play a central role in his career. Born in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas, Alexander remained in southeast Texas until entering graduate school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1969. Upon completing an MFA in 1970, he moved to Houston, established a studio and became a member of the art faculty of the University of Houston. In the late 1970s, Alexander left Texas for New York. The artist currently divides his time between New York City and Amagansett. His work is included in the permanent collections of leading museums including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Dayton Institute in Ohio; the Dallas Museum of Art; The Meadows Museum in Dallas; The McNay Museum in San Antonio; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Nevada Museum of Art; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as well as many other distinguished public and private collections worldwide.
Live Auction Lot 11
Simon Gunning
Springtime, Avery Island, 2021 - 2023, Oil on canvas, 62 x 42 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery Australian-born Simon Gunning has lived in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood for over 30 years. His appreciation for the local scenery has never waned, as is evident in his renowned, intricately- composed oil paintings of the Southern Louisiana landscape. His compositions reflect familiar scenes – lush swamps interrupted only by egrets, ibises and anhingas; ships lined up in the winding Mississippi River; industrial cargo lifts and cranes dotted with spotlights reflecting in the placid water; dogs and cats frolicking in streets lined with shotgun homes and jutting stoops. Despite his veneration, his compositions are never sentimentalized. His edgy style of painting has been described as “an iconic personal statement about life, death, sorrow and a love affair with an exotic land.” He has a startling ability to capture scenes at the most felicitous time of day, rendering the light and color that is so unique to the landscape. Simon Gunning was born in Sydney, Australia in 1956. He studied painting and drawing from 1976-1978 at the National Gallery School of Art and the Victorian College of Art in Melbourne, Australia. In 1999, Gunning was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. His work is included in many public and private collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art; Percent for Art Collection at Louis Armstrong International Airport and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, all in New Orleans; as well as in private and corporate collections in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Australia.
Live Auction Lot 12
Gregory B. Saunders
Three Spaniards in Audubon Park, 2026, Powdered graphite on paper, 41 x 31 inches, Courtesy of the artist Born in 1952 in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Gregory B. Saunders showed an eary interest in art, and began taking art classes in high school. He entered Morehead State University on scholarship, graduating in 1974 with a B.F.A. The day after graduation, he was sharpening a pencil when the graphite dust spilled onto a sheet of paper. Rubbing it into the paper with his fingers, a lifelong relationship with the medium was born. Saunders’ process in powdered graphite was developed through years of experimentation and innovation. It is a process both additive and reductive, and involves drawing, brushing, masking, mapping, scraping and sanding. Every composition begins with a contour drawing, and is developed through many hours of trapping graphite powder between layers of acrylic spray to create complicated values in grayscale. He uses a filet knife to cut the paper for each drawing, creating irregular edges that often inform the final composition. Scale is a conscious conceptual decision – creating large works that can’t be regarded as preparatory drawings for another medium, but must be viewed on equal footing with paintings and sculpture. Saunders has lived, fished, taught and maintained a studio in Pensacola, Florida since 1988. His works are held in private and public collections including: The Federal Courthouse of Escambia County (Pensacola, FL); Goddard Art Center (Ardmore, OK); Hagiwara Cultural Center (Hagiwara, Japan); Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock, AR); Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI); Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (New Orleans, LA); New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA); and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA). In 2022, Saunders was the subject of a major retrospective, Leaving Appalachia: The Art of Gregory B. Saunders, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Live Auction Lot 13
Dinner for 10 with Dawn DeDeaux at Camp Abundance Courtesy of Dawn DeDeaux
Join artist Dawn DeDeaux and friends for dinner at Camp Abundance amidst her banana farm, studios and artist retreat, for an unforgettable evening of unparalleled hospitality. Ten guests will have the opportunity to tour the grounds, see the artist’s various studios, installations and works in progress, and share a special meal in one of the most unique settings in New Orleans, a creative space lauded in The New York Times. DeDeaux was included in the 2026 Venice Biennale, largely regarded as the most important recurring exhibition in contemporary art. In 2025, DeDeaux was the recipient of the Opus Award at the O What A Night! gala at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, honoring a career that has made a lasting impact on contemporary art in New Orleans and beyond. DeDeaux has been the subject of 42 solo exhibitions and 54 group exhibitions since 1975. Works by DeDeaux have been exhibited nationwide including Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hammer Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art of Connecticut, The Contemporary / Baltimore, Canadian Film Society of Toronto, Ballroom Marfa, and a major exhibition in collaboration with American artist Lonnie Holley at MASS MoCA - “Thumbs Up for the MotherShip.” Above all else, DeDeaux is the winner of the 1976 Demolition Derby in the Louisiana Superdome as the only female contestant in a field of 35 drivers.
Live Auction Lot 14
Francis X. Pavy
At the Hour, 2018, Oil and block print on canvas, 40 x 39.25 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery Lifelong resident of Louisiana, Francis X. Pavy was born in Lafayette on March 2, 1954. As a child, Francis studied art under the direction of Elemore Morgan Jr. When he was 12, Pavy was an avid photographer and set up a darkroom in the attic of his parents’ house. In college, he studied music, ceramics, animation, painting, printmaking and sculpture, graduating in 1976 with a Fine Arts degree in Sculpture. In 1977, Pavy started working in a glass shop, making leaded and beveled glass windows. In 1982, he opened his own glass studio. Pavy says of his time working with glass, “Designing glass had a great impact upon my later painting style. The linear quality of leaded glass design, dealing with flat planes of color, and the simulation of transmitted light were important elements I had in my vision when I again approached painting.” He adopted painting as his primary medium in 1985. Since then, Pavy’s work has been well received regionally, nationally and internationally with one-man exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Aspen and New Orleans, as well as France and Switzerland. Pavy has also participated in many notable group shows such as Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century (traveling from the United States to Indonesia and the Middle East), Elvis And Marilyn: 2 Times Immortal (traveling from the United States to Japan), Southern Narrative Painting (Southeast U.S.) and Invites: Peintres Louisianais (Paris, France). Major corporations such as Brown-Ferguson Corporation, Premier, Bancorp, BMG Music, Capitol Records and Rounder Records have collected Pavy’s work, in addition to many museums and individual collectors, including Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Morris Museum of Art, Ron Howard, Lorne Michaels, Paul Simon, Walker Percy, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Antoine de Caunes, Philippe Djain and Steve Cropper. Pavy’s work has been published in a variety of catalogs, books and magazine articles. Among them are: Elvis & Marilyn: 2 Times Immortal (US & Japanese Editions), The South: A Treasury Of Art and Literature; Francis X. Pavy, La Musique Zydeco: The Colors of Rhythm; and Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century. Francis X. Pavy lives with his wife and two children in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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