by I came across the Elysian Fields neighborhood by accident. It was the end of the line for the St. Claude-Rampart trolley on my “trolley tour” of New Orleans. At this final stop there were murals all over the place, so instead of just riding the trolley back to Canal Street, I hopped off and began taking photos.
Here are some of the ones I saw:
These dancing girls are on one of several murals wrapping around a building across from the St. Claude trolley final stop. While there is tagging above the mural, there seems to be less aggressive tagging on the murals than in Los Angeles. Is there more respect for the artists in New Orleans?
This mural covered the entire back of a building and was so long I couldn’t take a photo of the entire work. Here is one section of this long art work. I’m not at all sure what it is about, but perhaps it is purely a demonstration of the muralist’s skills.
A mural honoring Harriet Tubman who was scheduled to be on the $20 bill–until the Trump administration delayed it. It’s about a block away from the end of the trolley line.
I think of this art as the friendship mural in Elysian Fields, New Orleans.
And yet another mural near the end of the St. Claude-Rampart trolley line in Elysian Fields. This one seems to be inspired by motorcycles.
Mr. Balloon created this mural. I tried to decypher the letters on the left size of the mural but failed to “read” what it says.
A block or so away from the end of the trolley line are these three mural portraits and I will bet that at least the one on the left and the one on the right were created by women. Perhaps the middle one, too. In the center mural the woman is looking around suspiciously.
Murals in Faubourg Delassize
This large mural of a Mardi Gras Indian in costume is in the Faubourg Delassize, across St. Charles Avenue from the Garden District. The Garden District is filled with huge white mansions; Faubourg Delassize is home to small homes and corner stores.
It may have once been a doorway but is now two masked Mardi Gras characters. No door handle that I could see and it is on the side of a building.
Murals were not the only art in the Elysian Park neighborhood. This sculpture is a memorial to bicycle riders who have died in accidents on the streets of New Orleans.
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