Harold Rudolf (circa 1850(?)-1944)
Harold Rudolph arrived in New Orleans in 1873 and opened a portrait studio with his brother-in-law Burtus Ducomman. After the tragic suicide of Ducomman, Rudolph largely abandoned his work as a portraitist and turned to painting landscapes. The untouched wilderness along the Missouri River and bayous of Southern Louisiana attracted the artist’s attention. In the Louisiana State Museum’s painting “Indian Lodge on Bluffs”, the juxtaposition of the American Indians and a steamboat traveling on the Missouri River, Rudolph clearly indicates the encroachment of industry into the vast untouched American countryside.
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