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
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9780807148792

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