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| April 1865 (2005) |
Luna Studios represents art that is truly American. Our focus
on regional subjects and colloquial tastes is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and encompasses the styles of Mississippian Culture,
African American Art and music, and is devoted to documenting regional history for generations
to come.
Luna Studios also has a growing private collection of Western Southern and Midwestern artifacts from
the 19th-20th century (photogrphs, tintypes, stereoviews, and prints) 20th century Black ephemera, as well as a small African
Art collection (Baule, Senufo).
In our collection is also over 100 early 78 RPM records, covering country and prewar/postwar blues, hillbilly, early
country, and bluegrass music. Artists include Peetie Wheatstraw, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie
Johnson, Tommy McClennan, The Kossoy Sisters, The Carter Family, Uncle Joe Macon, Louis Armstrong, and many other rare
recordings from 1920-1956.
Luna Studio library has over 300 books on art, history, and culture. Artist Joe Wood has also
just published a historical narrative, Ugly Water (2006) recently published by lulu publishing. For more information,
please browse our Books/Publications page.
By exploring America's Regional Heartland, and by preserving a collection of Western and Primative
Art, race photography, and cultural and race music, and by further examining historical and current issues on race and culture--Luna
Studios hopes to protect true American treasures.
"I believe that art has a higher purpose, beyond that of simply aesthetics or beauty. Art carries an obligation
to inspire, document or illuminate, and to reveal obscure truths. Honesty. Truths even
that are raw, heart-wrenching, ugly. This is the calling of the artist. This to me is the highest duty of art;
to teach. If life is imperfect, cruel, ugly--only when we see it can we hope to do something to change it"
-Joe Wood
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| Portrait of a Kiowa Warrior (2006) |
LUNA STUDIOS INC.
(314) 838-1809
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