Vintage ROBERT RUCKER French Quarter Royal Street Gift Shop NEW ORLEANS PAINTING

Description: ORIGINAL ROBERT RUCKER (1932-2001) ROYAL STREET GIFT SHOP FRENCH QUARTER NEW ORLEANS PAINTINGThis is a wonderful original. This is one of a couple paintings I recently acquired by important New Orleans artist Robert Malcolm Rucker. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is a wonderful scene of a gift shop on Royal Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Watercolor and gouache on paper measuring 14 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Signed lower right. Painting is in excellent as painted condition. Original matte has the title in pencil lower left and the frame are complimentary and ready to hang. Frame measures 20 x 11 inches. If you collect Ruckers work, check my store for the other of his work I am offering. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from askart reads: "Robert Malcolm Rucker was born March 28, 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and died March 7, 2001 in Mandeville, Louisiana. He was an oil painter who occasionally used watercolor, and his style combined realism and impressionism. He was primarily known for landscapes but also did many paintings of plantation homes, steamboats, and other aspects of Louisiana life and culture. Most of his life he lived in New Orleans. Rucker is really the heir to the nineteenth-century Louisiana landscape school of painting. He has a great kinship with the romantic descriptive images of Richard Clague (1821-1873), William Henry Buck (1840-1888) and Marshall J. Smith (1854-1923).Robert Rucker grew up in New Orleans during the Depression. His early dabbling in paint led to him opening his own French Quarter gallery with the help of his mother. He was just 15 years old. He painted an average of five paintings a month from that time. When he was 17, he was stricken with polio. Because of this, The Louisiana Department of Education funded his education at the John McCrady School of Fine Arts in New Orleans. His mature subjects recreate Louisiana in her golden past with amazing historical accuracy, in both detail and composition: sternwheelers steaming down the Mississippi (his father was a steamboat captain), colonial plantations set among cotton fields, rustic moonlit cabins, stands of old cypress in the bayous, and solitary live oaks garlanded with Spanish moss. In his early career, Rucker taught painting in his own studio and courses in art and ceramic for the New Orleans Recreation Department. He worked as a textile designer and as a medical artist at Tulane University School of Medicine. Rucker passed away on March 7, 2001 of a heart attack. His beautiful work will remain with us forever. " CHECK THE PICTURES ON THIS EXCELLENT PIECE!!! DONT MISS THIS CHANCE!!!Shipping and handling can be calculated based on the ebay shipping calculator. If you have any questions regarding the work, please dont hesitate to ask. Pictures are an excellent indication of condition. Though the shipping says it will take 5 days of handling, usually items are shipped much faster and if you pay right away, the item most likely will go out in the next day or two. If there is any problems with the item please dont hesitate to email me. I guarantee and stand 100% behind everything I sell. No reason to open up any sort of cases. Just simply contact me and I will handle any and all problems. Out of the nearly 500 items I ship around the world every year, a very few of them occasionally get lost or broken. I insure every item and will handle all insurance claims and make sure you are reimbursed 100%. Check my feedback. After nearly 15 years of selling on ebay, my reputation speaks for itself. If you are not happy with your purchase, I will work to make sure you are. Thanks again for your interest and bidding.

Price: 337.5 USD

Location: Holliston, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-09-24T14:26:28.000Z

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