Louisiana State Exhibit Bldg.

Conrad Albrizio painted the portico fresco in the summer of 1938. Born in New York in 1894 to Italian immigrant parents, he studied fresco in Rome in 1929 and in France in 1930, and taught art at Louisiana State University from the mid-1930s until 1954. Two figures stand at the center, a woman for agriculture and a man for industry, with side panels showing the main work of north and south Louisiana. Weather has hurt the mural: hail in 2000 stripped paint from the east panel, which was recovered in 2002, and flaking was treated in 2010.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — steps away
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 2.7 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 3.0 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 3.1 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.

More markers nearby

• Commemorating First Oil Well in Caddo Parish, LA — steps away
• Star Cemetery — 1.3 mi
• St. Joseph's Cemetery — 1.3 mi
• World's First Shriners Hospital — 1.7 mi