Artist Clementine Hunter (1886 - 1988)

Cotton Picking

Date1970-1980

DimensionsFramed: 19 3/8 × 25 3/16 × 1 1/4 in. (49.2 × 64 × 3.2 cm)

Object numberN0103.1991

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Dorothea & Leo Rabkin

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextA descendant of enslaved people, Clementine Hunter 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 people 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.

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