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Noel Rockmore's Outsider Life Shaped New Orleans Art
Noel Montgomery Davis known as Noel Rockmore emerged as a controversial American expressionist with early showings at top museums. After leaving New York for New Orleans in 1959 his life and work became tied to Preservation Hall and the Quarter, restoring his posthumous reputation as a genius amid cataloging of about 15,000 works and a late career renaissance following Katrina.
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Europe
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Hirshhorn Museum
Jackson Pollock
Rockmore
New Orleans
New York
Noel Montgomery Davis
LaGrange Art Museum
Georgia
Noel Rockmore
Ethyl Ault
Shirley Marvin
Baton Rouge
Katrina
Rich
Tee Marvin
Marvins
Rich Marvin
Juilliard School
Cooper Union
Ernest Hemingway
George Gershwin
Thomas Mann
Bowery District
Ringling Brothers
Central Park
Coney Island
Borenstein
Jaffe
Preservation Hall
Punch Miller
Percy Humphrey
Louis Nelson
Sweet Emma
Billie
DeDe Pierce
Ruthie the Duck Girl
Gypsy Lou
O.M
Old Man
Mike Stark
Johnny White
Gertrude Morgan
Stephen Clayton
St. Louis Cathedral
Ings
Antippus
Rita Posselt
Old Mint