Rolland Golden

Rolland Golden
Rolland Golden, 2011, Natchez, MS - overlooking the MS River
Born	Rolland Harve Golden (1931-11-08) November 8, 1931 (age 85) New Orleans, LA, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting, Drawing, Lithography
Movement	Realism (art), Southern art

Rolland Harve Golden (born November 8, 1931 in New Orleans) is an American visual artist known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm", a term he uses to describe a style of his where the subject is "not entirely impossible, but highly unlikely." He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in American Art and Marquis Who's Who in the World.

Rolland Golden studied under regionalist painter and teacher John McCrady in the famed French Quarter of New Orleans after finishing a 4-year stint in the United States Navy during the Korean War, graduating in 1957. [5]

Golden had a solo exhibition tour the former Soviet Union from 1976 to 1977, touring Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad & Odessa.

Golden was born in New Orleans, LA, but at the age of 2 he and his parents moved to Grenada, MS, then 4 years later Jackson, MS, where they lived 4 years before moving to Montgomery, AL for 1 year and then Birmingham, AL for 1 year before returning to New Orleans. His father was a manager for AT&T and his position moved his family around. [6] Golden was a very sickly child and spent much of his time in bed - he was not expected to live past his teenage years because he was asthmatic and anemic. Fortunately, he did improve and even went on to play football in High School and for 1 semester at Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, LA - now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. [7] Golden has said that his love for the Mississippi Delta was formed in his childhood, while living in these rural areas, notably Grenada, MS. "I didn't realize it at the time," Rolland told 'Southwest Art Magazine' [8] in 1978, "but the beauty of the rural South was making quite an impact on my young mind."[9]