Ben Earl Looney (June 2, 1904 - May 25, 1981) was a Louisiana artist and author know for his Water Colors of Dixie and Cajun Country, pen and ink sketches of Acadiana. June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Map of Acadiana Region with the Cajun Heartland USA subregion highlighted in dark red. ...

Looney was born in tiny Yellow Pine south of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, to Julian A. Looney (1871-1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872-1932). The community was so named because the original buildings were all constructed in yellow pine timber. Julian and Mollie Looney shared a July 17 birthday but one year apart. He graduated from Minden High School, where he was known as "Earl", in 1923. His artistic talent was already apparent, as he was the art editor of the yearbook staff. One of his classmates was Leland G. Mims (1901-1979), a 1921 graduate who was later a small businessman in Minden and a veteran member and president of the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing council. The small city of Minden is the parish seat of Webster Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... Webster Parish is a parish located in the state of Louisiana. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Yellow pine is an American foresters term for several closely related species of pine with yellow tinted wood, including Loblolly Pine, Slash Pine, Shortleaf Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Jeffrey Pine and several others. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually as a report or summary of statistics or facts. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Looney thereafte attended the Louisiana State University School of Journalism in Baton Rouge, Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport, the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., and the Summer School of Arts in Eastport, Maine. He studied watercolor under George Ennis. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, generally known as Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Centenary College of Louisiana is an independent United Methodist, primarily undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences college in Shreveport, Louisiana. ... Shreveport, Louisiana is the third largest metropolitan city in the state of Louisiana, USA. It is located in Caddo Parish, and as of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 200,145. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Federal District District of Columbia  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack Evans... Eastport is a city located in Washington County, Maine. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

Looney launched his art career in his studio in Minden. In 1935, he moved to Baton Rouge to become the first head of the LSU art department. Over the years, he taught art in Sarasota, Florida, in a school-museum financed by the John Ringling circus family. He taught painting in New York City for nine years. He also taught art in Weston, Massachusetts; Bremerton, Washington; and Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent his last years in Lafayette, Louisiana, the showcase for his Cajun works. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cà dZan - a 1925 Sarasota residence that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places Sarasota is a city in the central west coast of Florida, USA. Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands facing the Gulf of Mexico are within its city limits. ... John Ringling (May 31, 1866 - December 2, 1936) was the most well-known and the most successful of the five Ringling brothers, who merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Brothers Circus to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the circus into what it... The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...   Settled: 1642 â€“ Incorporated: 1713 Zip Code(s): 02493 â€“ Area Code(s): 781 Official website: http://www. ... Sinclair Inlet and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (left), Dyes Inlet (middle distance) and Manette and Warren Avenue Bridges (left to right) across Port Washington Narrows Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, USA. The population was 37,259 at the 2000 census. ... Downtown Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina (IPA: ), is the largest city in and county seat of Guilford County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... Lafayette is a city located on the Vermilion River in Lafayette Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ...

Looney derived subject matter from forty-five of the fifty states plus Canada and Mexico. Ford Times, an in-house organ of the Ford Motor Company, published some forty-five of his paintings and articles. Another Looney painting is in the magazine of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Though Looney's published work was watercolor, most of his artistic talent was applied to oil or acrylic and is in private family collections. One of his popular oil paintings is Downtown Baton Rouge, 1920. Looney painted many plantation houses in Louisiana between 1940 and 1970 He painted large oil murals for various dignitaries and clients, including the Ford Motor Company. It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled Ford Motor Company and Ford (vehicles). ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Look up acrylic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

Other works included the following: Beau Sejour, watercolors of Louisiana plantation houses; Drawings of the Vieux Carre, about New Orleans and the French Quarter, with captions in English and French; Cajun Vignettes, short stories and poems; Looney Plants Grow Wild, paintings and satirical horticultural definitions. // This article is about crop plantations. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... French Quarter: upper Chartres street looking down towards Jackson Square and the spires of St. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Looney was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Julian L. Looney (1894-1958), and a brother-in-law, Robert D. Moseley (1894-1972). His father and brother died the same year. Survivors included two sisters, Eula Looney Moseley (1896-1986), the widow of Robert Moseley, and Lucille Looney Miller (1898-1994), wife of Ray Winn Miller, Sr. (1899-1981). Looney died two months before brother-in-law Ray Miller expired. All the Looneys are buried in the Minden Cemetery in Minden except for Ben Looney, who donated his remains to the LSU School of Medicine. Looney never married. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

References

"Ben Earl Looney", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. I (1988), p. 522

Looney obituary, Lafayette Daily Advertiser, May 27, 1981

http://www.mindenmemories.org/Ben%20Earl%20Looney.htm

http://www.mindenmemories.net/

http://www.biblio.com/books/83018512.html

http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LSA&CISOPTR=680 (Photo of Ben Earl Looney)

http://www.lsumoa.com/content.php?display=about_mission (Print of Downtown Baton Rouge, 1920)