Images of Iberville -- A Family Tradition of Art (Page 2 of 8)

Images of Iberville Parish: Place Embodied in Art
Sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the Iberville Parish Chamber of Commerce.

Adrian "Jet" Callais
Architect and Painter
Plaquemine, La.

The text on this page is the transcript of an oral interview. The interview has been edited and transcribed by the interviewer.

A Family Tradition of Art (Page 2 of 8)

Albert Callais's 60th Wedding Anniversary
Albert Callais

The painting that you are looking at with the picture in the center, is his 60th wedding anniversary in November of 1955. All of his children remaining living of the 13 he had all attended and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I remember the date quite well.

Detail, the Callais Family
Albert Callais

The surrounding scenery it seems to be somewhat of his imagination with the long fences and the strange looking automobiles. The shrubbery appears to be somewhat generic. Some of the other paintings show a lot the Iberville Parish with palms and ferns and exotic birds. This one seems to be somewhat of a Wednesday afternoon painting.

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