Rockmore LASM Museum Catalog is Online - Opening Weekend Events & New Film!

Rockmore LASM Catalog online - Opening Weekend Events & New Lattimore Film!

The Louisiana Arts & Science Museum Show, The Faith & The Fury: Noel Rockmore & His Patron, presents a FREE Opening on Thursday July 25th from 5-8PM.

At 6 PM, listen as Shirley Marvin, Rockmore's long-time friend and patron, recounts her relationship with the artist himself. Shirley's son Rich and his wife Tee will then lead a tour of Rockmore's works at 6:45. Complimentary wine and exclusive hors' devours courtesy of Capital City Grill will also be served at this event.

You can get a Sneak Preview of the Exhibition Catalog - Right Here!

We have added some After Opening Activities all within 2 block walking distance of the Museum.

Thursday July 25th - After the Opening Activities in Baton Rouge!

8-9PM Drinks at Stroubes Bar (also a Restaurant - Reservations on your own if you like)

9-10PM Drinks at Tsunami Bar (also a Restaurant - FANTASTIC 6th Floor Outdoor Terrace View)

10PM - 2AM Drinks & Music - The Blues Room - Not too loud, not too crowded - Perfect ending!

Friday July 26th - FREE Rockmore walking Tour in New Orleans!

1:30-2:30PM - The Old US Mint - Rockmore's in Preservation Hall Exhibition

2:30-3:30PM Drinks at Molly's on the Market a French Quarter Tradition

3:30-5PM at Preservation Hall - Lectures & Interviews about Rockmore & Pres Hall

Saturday July 27th - FREE Rockmore walking Tour in New Orleans!

1:30-3:00PM - Johnny Whites - Drinks, Lectures & Interviews about Rockmore

3:00-5:00PM The Skyscraper, Alpine, Cassels Framing & more Rockmore Haunts in area

Are you booked up that week? Then just for you we have the following:

Sunday July 21st - Soft Opening of The Louisiana Arts & Science Museum Show in Baton Rouge.

The Faith & The Fury: Noel Rockmore & His Patron, - Admission $7 for Non Members.

2:00-4:00PM - Rich & Tee & Shirley Marvin will be there!

* Please email us if you plan to attend any of the events so we can prepare accordingly.

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Greetings!

We are really getting excited about the upcoming Rockmore Show especially with the release of the New LASM Faith & The Fury Catalog. THIS WILL BE the most AWESOME display of Rockmore Art in a Show EVER! From multiple collectors all across this country, Rockmore Art will be displayed in a show that will move Rockmore right up the ladder of Artworld Recognition. Press & PR is starting to heat up with interviews being scheduled and completed for a host of media outlets! We can't wait to see what happens next!

"The Faith, The Fury, and The Festivities" from 5-8PM Thursday July 25th, 2013

in Baton Rouge Louisiana (1 hour from New Orleans).

The key thing for our out of town visitors to do now would be to book your rooms and reservations.

For those looking for the best economical deal, we have two favorites in the French Quarter area.

1) Comfort Suites downtown on Barronne - Rate *$89 a night - Parking $15.

2) Summerfield Suites Rate $98 - Parking $31 (other less expensive parking is close by).

Southwest & Jet Blue have ongoing special deals for flying in to New Orleans.

* The show will run from July 20th through October 6th, 2013 in Baton Rouge, LA at the LASM.

We are happy to present the recently completed GEFQ Foundation Film - "David Lattimore Interview" by Tee Marvin. The film is an interview with Putney High School and 1950s young married friend David Lattimore about Noel Rockmore. There are all sorts of interesting and heartbreaking revelations about that time in Rockmore's life in the film which is also hosted by Rockmore's son, Chris Rockmore Davis.

Taylor, Sam, Shirley, Tee & Rich Marvin

Special Thanks to Jerry & Sue Schurmeier, parents of our Best Man Mark Schurmeier lost on 9/11, for hosting us at their home in the Chicago area as we attended son Sam Marvin's graduation from Univ. of Chicago Graduate School this weekend.

We hope to see all of you Rockmore fans very soon and will keep you posted.

Rich & Tee & Shirley Marvin

The Noel Rockmore Project Team

www.Rockmore.org

Your Chance to Become a Rockmore Collector before the Show!

Doris & Bryant Allen Collection

1974 "Bryant Allen" $6000

Size: 12 inches x 16 inches - FRAMED

Medium: Oil on Board
Rockmore's Portrait of the Famous Gallery Owner & Crescent City Icon
The RULES

1) First person to commit to BUYING (not seeing) the work gets it no matter what!

2) Buyer pays shipping and insurance from New Orleans or The Marvin's are happy to deliver to most East coast locations as their schedule permits.

3) Happy to preview a work in person if you are in New Orleans area.

Call Rich's Cell 508-577-7059 or email Rich with questions or commitments.

20% Discount available to all Rockmore Collectors that get this email - not transferable please.

From The Borenstein Collection

Self-Portrait, Brooklyn Heights, 1958 $10,000

Size: 40x20 inches - Wood Frame

Medium: Oil on Canvas Condition: Good - The Work is RESTORED and Crossbar lines are visible. One of the last works from his days in Brooklyn Heights.

* NOTE - This work has been selected for the LASM Show is featured in catalog and will be in the show until October 6th, 2013 after which it will be delivered to you by the Marvins.

From The Borenstein Collection

1954 The Gnarled Tree -$5000

Size: 30x40 inches - Wood Frame

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Condition: Good - This work has been restored.

This is one of Rockmore's works from his last days of the visits to the JerseyShore where the family had a home.

Shirley Marvin Collection

1983 Gone with the Wind- $3000

Mardi Gras Backstage Series Size:36 x 24 Wood Frame

Condition: Good Frame & work has been restored and sealed.

16 89.1263 - Alpine John with Nude - SGM

Shirley Marvin Collection

1989 Alpine John with Nude $3000

Size:30x40 Mediun: Oil & Acrylic - NOT FRAMED This is one of Rockmore's favorite characters Alpine John, the Bus Boy at his NOLA hangout, posing with an unknown Nude model.

Shirley Marvin Collection

1990 Egyptian Man $2500

Size:40x40 Acrylic & Burlap - NOT FRAMED

Manny Greer Collection

1963 Chicken Henry $9000

Size: 50x36 inches - Wood Frame- Oil on Canvas Condition: GOOD, slight visibility of a top Crossbar line, could use professional cleaning.

Manny Greer Collection

1964 Coal Miners,

Terre Haute $5000

Size: 40x20 inches -Carved Gold Frame

Medium: Acrylic on Masonite

Condition: Excellent

The Kissee Collection

Above 1990 "Yellow Girls: Old Kingdom" $3000

Right 1990 "Three Revelers" $3000

Both - Size: 48 inches by 36 inches FRAMED

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Egyptian Series work - Condition: Excellent

14 92.1303 - Orphan Annie over child with Immigrants - SGM

Shirley Marvin Collection

1992 Immigrants with Orphan Annie - $4000

Size: 36 x 24 Mixed Media FRAMED - Immigrant series
Rockmore called this scary German children story character Orphan Annie and includes his Immigrant series on a black canvas with fluorescent poster paint

Shirley Marvin Collection

1990 Mardi Gras Memory $2500

Size: 28x20x5 inches Mixed Media Found Object in Shadow Box

Shirley Marvin Collection

1972-77 Venice $10,000

Size:62 x 57 = 5FT x 5FT Mixed Media on Canvas FRAMED

This work is certainly the Master Work of the Venice Series. Rockmore actually added all of the ghostly figures to the work in 1977 while it was in Shirley Marvin's possession.

Shirley Marvin Collection

1992 King Tut with Lungs -$4000 Size 40x20 Framed

Oil on Canvas - Used as Cover on Egyptian Brochure

Rockmore loved capturing Egyptian Icons like King Tut and he did anatomical medical works throughout his career

Doris & Bryant Allen Collection

1990 "The Golden Snake" $6000

Size: 55 inches x 80 inches = Almost 5Ft by 7 Ft

Medium: Oil & GOLD LEAF on Canvas - Not Framed

Condition: Excellent

Manny Greer Collection $1500

1964 Coney Island Labyrinth Etching #7 of 15

Size: 26x18 inches Unframed

Condition: Good, slight surface dirt on edges of fine Arches paper

Manny Greer Collection

1975 Early Patio & Cityscape Series - $1000

Size: 7x 9 inches - FRAMED

Medium: Tempera, Condition: Excellent

Shirley Marvin Collection

1960 Skull Still Life 1960 $2500

11x14 Oil on Masonite - FRAMED

Most popular work worldwide of the 22 Rockmore paintings in Associated Press Rockmore Images.

Manny Greer Collection

1963 Street Music Etching - #2 of Edition 25 - $1500

Size: 17x10 inches Matted- UNFRAMED Condition: Print Excellent - Matte Fair This Etching would eventually evolve into the "Night Music" etching that would be used as the cover for the LouJon Press Bukowski book "Crucifix in a Deathand."

Manny Greer Collection

1967 The World

of Noel Rockmore $1500

Etching #2 of 52 Size: 18x13 inches Unframed -Inscribed to Greers with Love - Noel

23 89.10.1262 - Egyptian & Grid Combination - SGM

Shirley Marvin Collection

1989 Egyptian & Grid Collage $900

Size: 16x12 FRAMED

This work has Egyptian symbols, grid series lines, drip art, pen sketches, watercolors & cartoons all on the same work.

22 90.1268 - Nubus with Rope & Egyptians - SGM2

Shirley Marvin Collection

1990 Nubus with Rope & Egyptians $2000 Size: 29x22 FRAMED Collage

In this work Rockmore uses a real piece of rope to divide the work into two separate scenes.

25 67.12.16 Still life by the Dead Sea - Sodom - AP

Victor Potamkin Collection

1967 Still life by the Dead Sea in Sodom $750

- 18x13 Mixed Media on Masonite - Framed

This work is interesting because it is the master artist doing a watercolor from life at the Dead Sea which is a common scene in Israel. Rockmore loved capturing dead animals on the spot and this eagle skeleton must have been by the Dead Sea on that day in 1967.

Shirley Marvin Collection

1980 Bill Russell from Life $1500

FRAMED 14x11 inches Watercolor

This work has HISTORIC significance because it involves Bill Russell, famous jazz historian.

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