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Iberia Parish Courthouse - Photograph - Courthouse in New Iberia
The Iberia Parish Courthouse was designed by Louisiana architect A. Hays Town as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. ZoomifyLearn more »
Iberville Stone - Photograph - The face of the Iberville Stone.
The Iberville stone was reportedly inscribed by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his party in 1699, when they reached the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was recovered from the site of Fort Maurepas, the first permanent settlement in the Mississippi Valley. ZoomifyLearn more »
Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne d’ - Painting - Head and Shoulders portrait by Rudulph Bohunek, c.1933
Bohemian artist Rudolph Bohunek, who worked in New Orleans for four years, painted this portrait of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville c. 1933. ZoomifyLearn more »
Iles, Bill - Painting - "Camp Road"
Artist Bill Iles’ landscapes draw on his lifetime in southwestern Louisiana, including the area around his family home at Dry Creek, not far from the Kisatchie National Forest. Iles taught at McNeese State University in Lake Charles for more than 25 years. ZoomifyLearn more »
Iles, Bill - Painting - "Stand of Pines"
Artist Bill Iles is at home in the piney woods of west-central Louisiana, and he is similarly comfortable interpreting those woods with a certain artistic license. “What I now want from my more recent work is a calm landscape but one shrouded with a certain sense of mystery,” he says. “I want calmness and tranquility.” ZoomifyLearn more »
Iles, Bill - Painting - "Turtle Hole"
While Bill Iles’ landscapes have a realistic quality to them, they are not literal interpretations of the scenery he encounters across southwestern Louisiana. “The composition is made up in my head as I work,” he says. “I’m constantly making changes as I go along.
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Iles, Bill - Painting - "West Fork"
As evident in "West Fork" (1996), Bill Illes' landscapes do not render reality, but rather come informed by imagination. "The composition is made up in my head as I work," the artist once said.
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Iles, Bill - Photograph - "Bill Iles Portrait"
This photograph was taken by David Clanton, and is an intimate and up close portrait of realist painter Bill Isle. Learn more »
Ills, Bill - Painting - "On the Calcasieu"
Limiting his work to southwestern Louisiana, Bill Iles has had to make peace with the region’s visual limitations. “We’re stuck with a flat landscape,” he notes. To compensate, he experiments with colors, perspective and abstraction. “I don’t want my paintings to be picturesque,” he says. “I want them to feel like paintings.” ZoomifyLearn more »
Ills, Bill - Painting - "Sabine Pass"
Artist Bill Iles favors autumn scenes because he finds outdoors Louisiana a monochromatic green during summer months. “You can’t see the trees for the forest,” he says. The artist finds more diverse visual options in the fall, such as here when the needles on Louisiana cypress trees thin and turn from green to bronze.
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