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Maude Schuyler Clay: Mississippi History

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Maude Schuyler Clay: Mississippi History

October 1, 2016 – January 15, 2017

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Maude Schuyler Clay is a fifth generation Mississippian. Clay started her color portrait series Mississippi History in 1975 when she acquired her first Rolleiflex 2 ¼” camera. At the time, she was living and working in New York and paying frequent visits to her native Mississippi Delta, whose landscape and people continued to inspire her. Over the next 25 years, the project, which began as The Mississippians, evolved in part as an homage to Julia Margaret Cameron, a definitive pioneer of the art of photography. Clay’s expressive, allegorical portraits of her friends, family and other Mississippians, as well as her artful approach to capturing the essence of light, are the driving forces behind her recollection of moments of family life in Mississippi in the 1980s and 90s.

image credit: Maude Schuyler Clay, Anna as Heidi, 1997, Archival pigment print


Selections from the exhibition


Host Committee

Lee Dicks Guice in memory of M.C. Jones, BBQ Man

Benjamin Lowry and Shelly Gallender

Olivia and Archie Manning

Shirley Rabe Masinter

Linda and Bruce Newell

Margaret and Doug Plymale

Middleton O’Malley-Keyes

Sandra and Larry Sams

Southern Humanities Fund

Stacy and Jay Underwood

Jenny and Daniel Winstead

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*Ogden After Hours weekly entertainment series from 6 - 8 p.m.

*Thursday admission from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation

Current Exhibitions

  • The Permanent Collection
  • One Place Understood: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection
  • A Precise Vision: The Architectural Archival Watercolors of Jim Blanchard Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial

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