Caroline Durieux

Durieux was born in New Orleans in 1896 and lived in Mexico City from 1926 to 1937, where she knew Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. In February 1939 she became director of the Louisiana division of the Federal Art Project, described as the only such project in the state that did not discriminate by race. She taught at LSU from 1943 until retiring in 1964. Her work often used satire, though her ten lithographs for Mardi Gras Day in 1948 were gentler. She revived the cliche verre technique. She died in Baton Rouge on November 26, 1989.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — steps away
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 0.5 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 0.7 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 5.1 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Slim Harpo — steps away
• The Founding of Baton Rouge — steps away
• Votes For Women — steps away
• Capture of Baton Rouge by Galvez, 1779 — steps away