LULU KING SAXON
(American | New Orleans, 1855-1927)

Lulu King Saxon was a landscape painter and sketch artist active in New Orleans between 1884 and 1922.  Very well known during her day, she was also a writer, musician, poet, singer and actress.  Saxon was a member of the Artists’ Association of New Orleans and studied with painters Andres Molinary, Bror Anders Wikström and F. Arthur Callender.  She exhibited her work at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884-1885 and the Artists’ Association of New Orleans awarded her its gold medal in 1888.  Saxon traveled to Russia prior to World War I and exhibited the paintings she made there at the Arts and Crafts Club in 1922.

Lake Pontchartrain,

oil on canvas, signed lower left, 16 x 20 in., framed.

One can see the Barbizon influence of Saxon’s European teachers Andres Molinary and Bror Anders Wikström. With deft, soft brushwork, Saxon depicts the shore of Lake Pontchartrain.