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Clementine Hunter, The Cotton Vase

Item Number: 297

Estimated Value: 148 USD
Sold: 85 USD to lt2681e1e

Number of Bids: 8 - Bid History

Item Description

Cotton was the largest crop on Cane River for over two centuries. The vase depicts the hard work of hand picking rows of cotton on Melrose Palntation in central Louisiana. Please note the picture of the vase shows two sides of the piece, one vase is shipped per order.

Dimensions: 8" x 8" x 12"

CLEMENTINE HUNTER

Clementine Hunter Giclees

Louisiana’s most famous artist, Clementine Hunter, was born in 1886 at Hidden Hill Plantation below Cloutierville, Louisiana. At a young age, Clementine moved to Melrose Plantation where she lived and worked until her death in 1988 at age 101. Clementine first worked in the cotton fields and pecan groves until Miss Cammie Henry, the owner of Melrose, brought her into the "Big House" to clean and cook. It was here that she came in contact with visiting writers and artists, including New Orleans artist Alberta Kinsley, whose work inspired Clementine to try painting. Without formal training, she produced colorful memory paintings that captured every day life on Melrose Plantation. Her paintings are recognized as a narrative telling the story of plantation life during the time before mechanization came to agriculture. Her pictures of cotton pickings, washdays, pecan pickings, weddings, baptisms, funerals and other scenes of life on Melrose, have made her works coveted around the world. Clementine Hunter is considered one of the most important self-taught American artists of the 20th century. Her works can be seen in the Smithsonian Institution, The American Folk Art Museum and countless other museums and private collections.

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