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“Carnivale Marching Band #1”
12″ x 16″ framed original drawing on white 100lb (270 gsm) archival paper; custom wood frame, warm antique bronze, 17.75″ x 22.5″, 2″ double mat (burgundy and gold).
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This one-of-a-kind framed original colored pencil drawing was created by New Orleans artist Emilie Rhys in the summer of 2025 at Scene By Rhys Fine Art, the artist's gallery on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It is part of the artist's new series of depictions of Carnival in New Orleans.
Living here since 2011 has afforded the artist with many opportunities to participate in Carnival season, which in New Orleans begins annually with the tiny Joan of Arc parade on Epiphany (January 6) and ends with the epic parades on Fat Tuesday (variable date each year, due to Easter’s changeability). Many parades march in the streets between those two dates, and she has documented them with camera in hand.
Carnivale Marching Band #2 depicts a marching band as it dances their way through the streets of the French Quarter, where the artist lives and works, and which she favors throughout the Carnival season. A costumed stilt walker waves in the background.
To impart something of the feeling of “being there,” the artist strived in this piece—as with all her Carnival pieces—to portray the sense of true joy that she witnesses on the faces of nearly everyone she encounters during her own Carnival meanderings.