Drawing of Socrates from 1975 by Caroline Duriex

Size: 14.5 inches by 11.25 inches outside of frame.
7 1/8 inches by 10.25 inches are art is shown inside matt.
Original drawing and not a print.

Resume:
* Caroline Wogan Durieux (January 22, 1896 – November 26, 1989) was an American printmaker, painter, and educator.

She was a Professor Emeritus at both Louisiana State University, where she worked from 1943 to 1964 and at Newcomb College of Tulane University (1937-1942).

Early life and education
Durieux was born Caroline Spelman Wogan in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 22, 1896; into a Creole family.
Benediction by Caroline Durieux
Durieux’s father’s family was Roman Catholic and her mother’s were Episcopalian. According to Durieux, her father was shunned by some Catholics in his life for his marriage to her mother. As a child, Durieux went to both Protestant services and Catholic mass.

At the age of 4, she began drawing and received art lessons from Mary Williams Butler (1873-1937), who was a local artist and a member of the faculty of art at Newcomb College at Tulane University. She worked in watercolor from the age of six and at the age of 12 created a portfolio of ten watercolors depicting New Orleans scenery. Most of these early works are now in The Historic New Orleans Collection. She continued at Newcomb College of Tulane University in the Art School headed by Ellsworth Woodward. From her college days, she was interested in satire and the use of humor in her imagery. Durieux earned a Bachelor’s in Design in 1916 and a Bachelor’s in Art Education in 1917, and she pursued graduate studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts led by Henry Bainbridge McCarter.

Career
Her husband Pierre’s work led to a job in Cuba, which Caroline described as a time of quiet artistic growth that heightened her sense of color. Caroline Durieux lived in the French Quarter in the mid-1920s, and was part of a circle of talented and creative individuals featured in a private publication, “Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles.” Her next-door neighbors included author William Faulkner and silver designer, William Spratling.

Mexico City (1926-1929)
In 1926, her husband Pierre was named chief representative of General Motors for all of Latin America, but Caroline stayed and worked in Mexico City. She received a letter of introduction to Diego Rivera from Tulane anthropologist, Frans Blom, which helped ease her transition into the local artist community.

Durieux not only befriended many of Mexico’s leading artists and intellectuals of the day (including Rivera and Frida Kahlo)

She flourished under the tutelage of Rivera and Emilio Amero with whom she honed her skills as a painter and printmaker as well as the satirical qualities of her work. In 1929, curator René d’Harnoncourt, organized a solo exhibition of Caroline’s oil paintings and drawings at the Sonora News Company in Mexico City.

New York & Carl Zigrosser (1929-1931)
After 1929, a promotion for Pierre marked an important development in his wife’s career. This time they moved to New York City, where Caroline forged a lifelong friendship with art dealer, Carl Zigrosser. Zigrosser championed Durieux’s career, first as director of the Weyhe Gallery, then as the curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and including her in his many books. It was Zigrosser who recognized Durieux’s talent and eye for satire and encouraged her adoption of lithography as a primary means of artistic expression.

In 1931, the Durieuxs again were transferred to Mexico City. Eager to learn more about lithography, Durieux enrolled in the Academy of San Carlos (now known as National Autonomous University of Mexico) to study with Emilio Amero. In 1934, Durieux experimented with etching, a technique she learned from Howard Cook. Caroline wrote to Carl Zigrosser: All my etchings are harrowing. I think it is because the medium is such a precarious one-the least slip and all is lost. I can’t be funny on a copper plate. I feel tragic the moment I think of doing an etching.
* wikipedia