Andres Molinary

Andres Molinary (1847–1915) was an artist, art teacher, restorer and photographer who painted for most of his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] His works were prominently displayed in New Orleans during his career, with exhibitions at the Southern Art Union,[3] the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, and the Artists' Association of New Orleans.[4] At the time of his death, the Delgado Museum of Art sponsored a retrospective exhibition of his works.[5]

Andres Molinary
Self-Portrait (1896)
Born
Andrew Molinary[lower-alpha 1]

(1847-11-02)November 2, 1847
Gibralter
DiedSeptember 11, 1915(1915-09-11) (aged 67)
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Spouse
Marie Madeleine Seebold
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(m. 1915)​

Early life and training

Molinary was born in Gibraltar to an Italian father and Spanish mother. He won a scholarship to attend the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and he later studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Seville, Spain. During this period, he was influenced by Spanish artist Marià Fortuny especially with respect to painting landscapes and historic vistas, and he traveled through North Africa to paint. In 1872, his uncle, John Brunasso, encouraged him to come to New Orleans to work at his import business; however, office work did not appeal to Morinary and he set up a small artists studio. After spending a year traveling and painting in Mexico and Central America, he returned to New Orleans by 1876 where he became a popular portrait painter and an early leader in the Art Association of New Orleans.[6][5]

In June 1881, the Southern Art Union opened an art school in New Orleans with Molinary teaching oil painting.[7]

Artistic career

Molinary's subjects included landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits of prominent people. He was considered a member of the Seebold School of artists in New Orleans.[8] He mentored other artists through his involvement with the Artists Association of New Orleans.[9] Molinary's studio served as the home of the Southern Art Union.[10]

In 2015, Molinary's 1884 painting North Shore, Lake Pontchartrain (Fisherman's Cabin) sold at auction for $261,500 — a record price for one of Molinary's works.[11]

Personal life

On his deathbed, Molinary married fellow artist and artistic protégé Marie Madeleine Seebold.[12][13]

Notes
  1. British census records record his first name as 'Andrew'.[1]

References
  1. "Register of Inhabitants 1868 Surname Service". Gibraltar National Archives. ID No. 301. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  2. Bonner, Judith H. (2013). "Molinary, Andres". In Bonner, Judith H.; Pennington, Estill Curtis; Wilson, Charles Reagan (eds.). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Vol. 21 (Art and Architecture). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 382–383. ISBN 978-0-8078-3718-4 – via Google Books.
  3. Boner, Judith H. (2010-03-29). Johnson, David (ed.). "Southern Art Union". KnowLA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22.
  4. Boner, Judith H. (2010-03-29). Johnson, David (ed.). "Artists' Association of New Orleans". KnowLA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22.
  5. Dobie, Ann (2012-09-12). Johnson, David (ed.). "Andres Molinary". KnowLA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  6. Seebold, Herman de Bachellé (1941). "Early Louisiana Artists: Art in New Orleans – Andres Molinary". Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees. Vol. I. New Orleans, Louisiana: Pelican Press Inc. p. 26–29 – via Internet Archive.
  7. Pauly, Sandra (2014). The Art of Reconciliation: The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans, 1884 (PhD thesis). Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia. p. 40. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  8. Art from the Seebold Salon Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Historic New Orleans Collection, accessed March 8, 2014.
  9. Entry for Helen Turner in A Southern Collection, University of Georgia Press, 1993, p. 104.
  10. Brown, Laura Clark (Summer 2000). "New Orleans Modernism: The Arts and Crafts Club in the Vieux Carré, 1919-1939". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 41 (3): 320. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  11. "Louisiana Purchase Auction Caps the Year with a Flourish". Maine Antique Digest. 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
  12. "Artist Biography for Marie Madeleine Seebold Molinary". AskArt. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  13. "Pupil Weds Famed Artist on Deathbed". The Day Book. Vol. 4, no. 304. Chicago. 1915-09-23. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.

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