His artistic career has spanned six decades in Louisiana: after studying at John McCrady’s art school, Golden opened his artist studio in the French Quarter in 1957. Golden modulates between realistic compositions and a highly stylized look that he has termed “borderline surrealism”. He says his painting practice is inspired by a metaphysical connection he feels with the rural beauty of the Southern landscape. In 1976, a selection of his paintings visited the Soviet Union in a traveling exhibition organized by the Institute of Soviet-American Relations in Moscow, an unusual career moment for an American artist of that era. In 2004, an exhibition of Golden’s work titled An Alternate Vision was held at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.