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
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.
