1960s Adalie Brent Four Candles Drawing

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1960s drawing on paper by Adalie Margules Brent (1920-1992). Pencil signed upper right. This is possibly a study for her … Read more 1960s drawing on paper by Adalie Margules Brent (1920-1992). Pencil signed upper right. This is possibly a study for her stained glass windows.

Born in Dallas, Adalie Brent lived a life filled with art. She was an artist working in multiple media, a graphic designer, teacher and long-time museum director who had an influential role in the development of the cultural scene of Baton Rouge for over four decades. After several years of teaching at Louisiana State University in the early 1950s, Brent continued to teach at Saint Joseph’s Academy for twelve years. She then became the first director of the Louisiana Arts and Science Center in Baton Rouge. In her eighteen years in that capacity, she oversaw the museum's move from the Old Governor's Mansion on North Boulevard to the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot on the Mississippi River in 1976, when her own stained-glass windows were installed in the newly constructed auditorium. Although perhaps best-known for her stained glass commissions in places of worship, institutions and hospitals in south Louisiana, Brent also was a life-long painter.

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