About the Publisher
Robert Hinckley is a native of New Orleans. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and the Tulane School of Law. He has held senior executive positions with major technology companies in Silicon Valley and resides primarily in Palo Alto, California, with his wife, Tina, a graduate of Newcomb College.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
George Schmidt attended the Tulane School of Architecture and earned his M.F.A. from Tulane in 1973. He won his first art competition at the age of six (at the Pirate Alley Children’s Art Show) and has been painting ever since. His works have been exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and he was the first artist in residence at the Louisiana World Exhibition in 1984. His paintings are also represented in numerous private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has been profiled in film, television, and print interviews. His gallery is located on historic Julia Row in New Orleans.
J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D. until recently was director of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans. He has served as deputy director of the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA; director of the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, KS; curator and then director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN; and director of the Peter Joseph Gallery in New York. After graduating from Xavier University in Cincinnati, he earned an M.A. in art history from the University of Colorado at Boulder, then an M.Ph. and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He has published numerous books and catalogues about Southern art and artists.
Jessie Poesch, retired professor of the history of art at the Newcomb Department of Art of Tulane University, continues to be a productive scholar. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940. In 1992, she was named Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Judith H. Bonner has been with The Historic New Orleans Collection since 1978 and is its senior curator. She has written extensively about Louisiana art and art of the South. For 20 years, she has published an annual bibliography on the visual arts and architecture of the South in Southern Quarterly, published by the University of Southern Mississippi. She has curated exhibitions on William Woodward and Ellsworth Woodward, including the 1987 Newcomb Centennial Exhibition “William Woodward 1859-1939: An American Impressionist in New Orleans” held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, for which she also authored the exhibition catalogue.
Ray L. Bellande, a native of Biloxi, MS, is a research historian, journalist, and author. For 16, he has written a weekly newspaper column chronicling Ocean Springs from 1699 until the present day. His website (www.oceanspringsarchives.com) has been recognized nationally and internationally for its contribution to the history of Ocean Springs and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He was the historian of the Ocean Springs Historical Preservation Commission for ten years and has served on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Historical Society.
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