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Rolland Golden

{{Short description|American visual artist (1931–2019)}}

{{Infobox artist

| image = Rgolden2011prpic.jpg

| caption = Golden in 2011

| birth_name = Rolland Harve Golden

| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|11|08|mf=y}}

| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|7|1|1931|11|8}}

| death_place = Folsom, Louisiana, U.S.

| nationality = American

| known_for = Painting, Drawing, Lithography

| movement = Realism (art), Southern art

}}

Rolland Harve Golden (November 8, 1931 – July 1, 2019) was an American visual artist known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm", a term he used to describe a style of his where the subject is "not entirely impossible, but highly unlikely."{{cite book|first = John R.|last = Kemp|title = Rolland Golden: Journeys of a Southern Artist|year = 2005|publisher = Pelican}} He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in American Art and Marquis Who's Who in the World.

Golden studied under regionalist painter and teacher John McCrady in the French Quarter of New Orleans after finishing a four-year stint in the United States Navy during the Korean War, graduating in 1957. [http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/features/9809517-171/artist-rolland-golden-shares-quarter]

Golden had a solo exhibition tour the former Soviet Union from 1976 to 1977, touring Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, and Odessa.{{cite web |url=http://www.knowla.org/entry/1187/&view=article&ref=category&refID=1 |title=Rolland Harve Golden {{!}} Entries {{!}} KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana |website=www.knowla.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003191511/http://www.knowla.org/entry/1187/&view=article&ref=category&refID=1 |archive-date=2013-10-03}}{{cite web|url=http://pelicanpub.com/products.asp?cat=229 |title=Pelican Products:G - I, Rolland Golden |publisher=Pelicanpub.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-27}}{{cite web|author=Rolland Golden |url=http://www.artfulhome.com/artist/The-Nahan-Collection/8074 |title=Rolland Golden - The Nahan Collection Artist Profile |publisher=Artful Home |date= |accessdate=2012-10-27}}

Childhood

Golden was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but at the age of two he and his parents moved to Grenada, Mississippi, then four years later Jackson, Mississippi, where they lived four years before moving to Montgomery, Alabama, for one year and then Birmingham, Alabama, for one year before returning to New Orleans. His father was a manager for AT&T and his position moved his family around.{{cite web |url=http://www.knowla.org/entry/1187/&view=article&ref=category&refID=1 |title=Rolland Harve Golden {{!}} Entries {{!}} KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana |website=www.knowla.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003191511/http://www.knowla.org/entry/1187/&view=article&ref=category&refID=1 |archive-date=2013-10-03}} Golden was a very sickly child and spent much of his time in bed – he was not expected to live past his teenage years because he was asthmatic and anemic. He did improve and even went on to play football in High School and for one semester at Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, Louisiana – now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/features/9809517-171/artist-rolland-golden-shares-quarter |title=Artist Rolland Golden shares Quarter tales, fresh reads on his life's work | Features | the New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana |access-date=2015-01-31 |archive-date=2015-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203021758/http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/features/9809517-171/artist-rolland-golden-shares-quarter |url-status=dead }} Golden said that his love for the Mississippi Delta was formed in his childhood, while living in these rural areas, notably Grenada, Mississippi. "I didn't realize it at the time," Rolland told Southwest Art magazine{{cite web |url=http://www.southwestart.com/ |title=Home |website=southwestart.com}} in 1978, "but the beauty of the rural South was making quite an impact on my young mind."http://www.knowla.org.html {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1187 |title=Rolland Harve Golden {{!}} Entries {{!}} KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana |website=knowla.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222171409/http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1187 |archive-date=2013-02-22}}

Early adulthood

Golden left college after only one semester to join the United States Navy, before being drafted, to fight the Korean War. He spent four years, mainly on aircraft carriers, in teletype positions. After being stationed on Guam for 20 months, he served on the USS Yorktown, USS Wasp, USS Oriskany, and USS Lexington. Upon discharge, he enrolled in the John McCrady Art School in the French Quarter of New Orleans and studied under the well-known southern artist, John McCrady. Golden studied for two years and graduated in 1957.June 1957, he opened his first studio/gallery at 624 Royal Street in the French Quarter. The studio was called Patio Art Studio and was located through a carriageway and patio and in the back, slave quarter [http://anothercupoftea.com/media/img/18fd1c29/New-Orleans-Slave-Quarters-picture.html] section of the building. Golden would remain in this location for 10 years. Golden married Stella Anne Doussan August, 1957. They mainly lived in the French Quarter between 1957 and 1981 while raising three children: Carrie (1958), Mark Damian (1961) and Lucille (1963).{{cite web |url=http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1743 |title=Rolland Golden: Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter |website=www.upress.state.ms.us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202011701/http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1743 |archive-date=2015-02-02}}[http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/features/9809517-171/artist-rolland-golden-shares-quarter]

Museum exhibitions

"An Alternate Vision"; [http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions.html], Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 8/14; "Blend the lonesome romantic realism of Andrew Wyeth with the metaphysical magic of Rene Magritte and you find yourself in the world of New Orleans native Rolland Golden", wrote renowned New Orleans art critic Doug MacCash, in his review of this exhibition [http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2014/07/rolland_goldens_metaphysical_l.html]

"River & Reverie: Paintings of the Mississippi";[http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2011/05/25/61982/], Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi September 2010 - January 2011;Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana 2011; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana, 2011; Louisiana Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana December 7, 2011 - March 10, 2012;Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, 2012;The University of Mississippi Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://museum.olemiss.edu/ |title=University Museum — | publisher=Museum.olemiss.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-10-27}} Oxford, Mississippi, 2012

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"Katrina: Days of Terror, Months of Anguish" - November 2007-February 2008 at the New Orleans Museum of Art and February–March 2009 at the Museum of Art, Springfield, MO.{{cite web |url=http://www.springfieldmo.gov/art/exhibitions.html |title=City of Springfield, MO: Art Museum - Exhibitions |publisher=Springfieldmo.gov |accessdate=2012-10-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806144930/http://www.springfieldmo.gov/art/exhibitions.html |archivedate=2012-08-06 }}

Awards

Louisiana Legends 2015 Award Honoree - Awarded by the Louisiana Public Broadcasting File:(L-R) Beth Courtney, President & Cep of LPB, Rolland Golden & former Govenor Blanco 2015.jpg 2015]]

Among numerous awards, Golden was a two-time recipient of the Thomas Hart Benton Purchase Award, a three-time recipient of the National Arts Club First Place Award, and a winner of the Winslow Homer Memorial Award.[http://knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1187][http://www.pelicanpub.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781589802902#.UY7Rzsoo6M8][http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1743]

Publications

===Books===

File:Rolland Golden with his memoir, "Life, Love, & Art in the French Quarter".jpg

{{incomplete list|date=October 2012}}

  • {{cite book|title = Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter by Rolland Golden|author1 = Rolland Golden (author; illustrations) | editor = Lucille Golden|publisher = University Press of Mississippi - 2014}} [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1743][http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2014/06/artist_rolland_golden_to_relea.html]
  • {{cite book|title = World of Rolland Golden|author1 = Don Lee Keith (author)|author2 = Rolland Golden (illustrations)}}
  • {{cite book|title = Rolland Golden: Journeys of a Southern Artist|author1 = John R. Kemp (author)|author2 = Rolland Golden (illustrations)|publisher = Pelican Publishing Company|year = 2005}}[http://www.pelicanpub.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781589802902#.UY7Rzsoo6M8]
  • {{cite book|title = Katrina: Days of Terror, Months of Anguish|year = 2007|publisher = New Orleans Museum of Art|author1 =John R. Kemp (author)|author2 = Rolland Golden (author; illustrations)}}
  • {{cite book|title = Along the Banquette: a reprinting of 1960s articles by Edith Long|author1 = Edith Long (author)|author2 = Rolland Golden (drawings; illustrations)|author3 =Sally Reeves (foreword)|publisher =VCPORA of New Orleans|year =2004}}
  • {{cite book|title = A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana|author1 = John R. Kemp |publisher = Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities|year =2012}}[http://knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1187]

=Magazines and newspapers=

{{incomplete list|date=January 2015}}

  • {{cite book|title = Inside Northside Magazine - cover|author1 = Poki Hampton| publisher = M&L Publishing, LLC|year =2014}}[http://www.insidenorthside.com/golden-rules/]
  • {{cite book|title = Louisiana Life Magazine|author1 = John R. Kemp |publisher = New Orleans Magazine|year =2003}}[http://www.myneworleans.com/Louisiana-Life/]
  • {{cite book|title = Inside Northside Magazine - cover|author1 = Jamey Landry| publisher = M&L Publishing, LLC|year =2003}}[http://www.insidenorthside.com/june_july03/art04.htm]

Memberships

Golden was a member of such art leagues as the Watercolor USA Honor Society (past Vice-President), The National Arts Club, National Watercolor Society, California, and Allied Artists of America, New York.[http://www.pelicanpub.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781589802902#.UY7Rzsoo6M8]

References

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External links

  • {{official website|http://www.rollandgolden.com/}}
  • [http://www.noma.org Noma.org]
  • [http://www.msmuseumart.org/ Msmuseumart.org]
  • [http://pelicanpub.com/Biog.asp?artist=Rolland%20Golden Pelicanpub.com]
  • [http://blog.nola.com/dougmaccash/2007/11/artist_rolland_golden_creates.html Blog.nola.com]
  • [http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200903030257/COLUMNISTS23/903030307 News-leader.com]
  • [http://thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2007/11/katrina-art-show.html Thanks-katrina.blogspot.com]
  • [http://www.hnoc.org/?p=405 Hnoc.org]
  • [http://www.watercolorusa.org/pdf/history_of_watercolor_usa_1986_present.pdf Watercolorusa.org]
  • [http://www.pelicanpub.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781589802902#.UY7Rzsoo6M8]

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Category:1931 births

Category:2019 deaths

Category:Artists from New Orleans

Category:Writers from New Orleans

Category:Military personnel from Louisiana

Category:20th-century American painters

Category:American male painters

Category:21st-century American painters

Category:Southern art

Category:20th-century American male artists