Clementine Hunter : Her Life and Art

Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her-glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing board...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shiver, Art
Autres auteurs: Whitehead, Tom
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Painters.
African American painters.
ART > History > General.
Peintres noirs americains > Biographies.
Peintres > États-Unis > Biographies.
African American painters > Biography.
Painters > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her-glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards-as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, including her most ambitious work, the African House Murals. Scenes of cotton planting and harvesting, washdays, weddings, baptisms, funerals, Saturday night revelry, and zinnias depict experiences of everyday plantation life a.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9780807148792

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