Mary Anne Pecot de Boisblanc (1925-2015) was a
self-taught
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). Generally, autodidacts are individua ...
American artist from
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
. She was best known for her paintings which depicted
Cajun life and culture.
Biography
Born in 1925, Mary Anne de Boisblanc grew up in
Labadieville, Louisiana
Labadieville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,854 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Labadieville, originally called " ...
. She first began painting her colorful pieces in the late 1960s, drawing on her memories of growing up in rural Louisiana and her own
Cajun heritage.
The artist described herself as a "Primitive Naive Acadian Artist."
Her work is included in the collections of the West Baton Rouge Museum.
Her archives are held in the collection of the
Newcomb Center for Research on Women.
Mary Anne de Boisblanc died on December 17, 2015, at the age of 90.
See also
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Folk Art
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Outsider Art
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Naïve art
Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). When this aesthetic is ...
Further reading
*''Mary Anne Pecot de Boisblanc: The Spirit of the Acadian Women''. Acadian Memorial Foundation (2005).
References
External links
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Painters from Louisiana
1925 births
2015 deaths
Cajun artists
20th-century American women painters
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
American folk artists
21st-century American women painters
21st-century American painters