Artist Clementine Hunter (1886 - 1988)

Crucifixion

Date1950-1960

DimensionsSight: 15 × 15 1/4 in. (38.1 × 38.7 cm)

Object numberN0420.1972

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. H. Payne Breazeale Jr.

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextClementine Hunter is a well-known 20th-century folk artist. A descendant of slaves, she spent the majority of her life doing both field labor and domestic work on Melrose Plantation in Louisiana. Her art was inspired by day-to-day plantation life. She depicted the hands at work, at church, and at play, as well as religious images and portraiture. Hunter's early works were brought to the attention of François Mignon, a writer, and James Register, a professor at the University of Oklahoma. Both men encouraged her artistic creativity, and they arranged for her first public show in 1946.
Exhibition History“Folk Art from the Collection of the New York State Historical Association,” Museum of American Folk Art, NY, January 11, 2000 – February 18, 2000.

"As They Saw It: Women Artists Then & Now," Springfield Museums, Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, October 14, 2023 - January 14, 2024; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY, April 1, 2024 - September 2, 2024.

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