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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shiver, Art
Other Authors: Whitehead, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Moment of Recognition: May 17, 1985; 2 From the Cotton Fields to the Big House; 3 Memory and a Sense of Place; 4 The Remarkable and Enigmatic Mr. Mignon; 5 Mr. Pipes and the Artist; 6 Becoming an Artist; 7 The African House Murals; 8 A Lifetime Told in Art; 9 Friends, Supporters, and Patrons; 10 New Year's Day, 1988; 11 Fakes, Forgeries, and the FBI; Appendix: The Evolution of Hunter's Signature; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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