biografía de Clementine HUNTER (1886/87-1986/88)

Lugar de nacimiento: Little Eva Plantation, near New Orleans, LA

Direcciones: Melrose Plantation, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Profesión: Folk painter

Estudios: self-taught

Exposiciones: Saturday Gallery, St. Louis, 1954; NOMA, 1955; Louisiana State Lib., permanent exh.; La Jolla Mus. of Art, 1971; Fisk Univ., Nashville, 1974; Barnwell Center, Shreveport, 1975; Mus. of American Folk Art, NYC.

Obra: Hist. New Orleans Coll.

Comentarios: After a long career as a kitchen maid and field hand on a cotton plantation, she started painting in the 1930s, picking up a brush left behind by a New Orleans artist. Her subjects were plantation scenes, religious ceremonies and community life, predominantly of Blacks in the rural South. She painted more than 5000 works.

Fuentes: Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists; Dewhurst, MacDowell, and MacDowell, 163; Complementary Visions, 89.

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