1974 Press Photo Painting of Leonard Flettrich at New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art has wheeled out three big guns to signal the opening of the new art museum this week. A more simpatico combination I could not imagine. In the Ella West Freeman gallery there are 112 photographs, each packing its own wallop, by the late, great Diane Arbun. In the Gallery of Contemporary Louisiana Art. 19 large canvases by New Orleans's own Leonard Flettrich mark a posthumous recognition that there was a real art presence among us at mid-century. In the Print and Photography gallery, British sculptor Henry Moore turns his attention to an elephant skull and the resulting 28 etchings are in every way as masterful as the massive bronzes resting quietly in the entrance court of the museum.

Photo is dated 1974.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.