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| The following information is from Melanie Martin of San Francisco, California:
Born in Bohemia, Rudolph Bohunek was both a painter and printmaker. He studied art in Prague at the School of Art and in 1907 traveled to America. In 1909 he made his way down south and worked in New Orleans for four years. There he maintained a studio in the Maison Blanche building on Gravier Street.
While in New Orleans, he received a large commission to paint the Louisiana Sugar Planters Associations members' portraits. Twenty-one of these portraits are on long term loans to the Louisiana State Museum from the association.
Bohunek also produced a series of portraits of historic Louisiana figures. A February 2, l909, article in "The New Orleans Daily States" publicized the exhibition of his portraits of Rene-Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle and Bienville in the artist's studio, both of which are currently in the museum's collection. He also did a similar series of etchings based on historic characters.
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According to the "Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists", Brady Schmit, editor:
In New Orleans, his studio was first at 940 Gravier Street and then at 921 Canal Street. He exhibited with the Art Association of New Orleans. He returned to Prague from 1911 to 1913 and then returned to the United States where he opened an art school in Chicago. |
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