Entirely self-taught and immensely prolific, Clementine Hunter earned critical acclaim for thousands of vibrant paintings. Hunter, who labored her entire life on plantations in central Louisiana, began painting only in her late 50s.

Hunter made pictorial quilts and small paintings, but her most iconic works include nine room-size murals painted in 1955, inside a building at Melrose Plantation called African House. The paintings reflect on personal memories but carry persistent undertones of protest regarding both race and gender.

Hunter's work can be found in numerous museums such as the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the American Folk Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Louisiana State Museum.

Come see the exhibition at the museum, Cherished: The Art of Clementine Hunter followed by a screening of the documentary in Manship Theatre, Clementine Hunter's World. Your $10 ticket covers both museum and theatre admission for the evening.

Though she first exhibited in 1949, Hunter did not garner public attention until the 1970s when both the Museum of American Folk Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibited her paintings.

2024年5月13日 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana–The LSU Museum of Art (LSUMOA) presents Cherished: The Art of Clementine Hunter, on exhibit July 30–October 23, 2024, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The show includes paintings and objects from the collections of the LSU Museum of Art, the LSU Rural Life Museum, the Alexandria Museum of Art, The Graves Family, private ...

Clementine Hunter is a folk artist who was completely integrated into the only world she knew: Melrose Plantation on the Cane River near Natchitoches, Louisiana. Rarely leaving Melrose in her 101 years, Hunter became one of American folk art’s greatest practitioners, and one of Louisiana’s most beloved female artists.

Entirely self-taught and immensely prolific, Clementine Hunter earned critical acclaim for thousands of vibrant paintings. Hunter, who labored her entire life on plantations in central Louisiana, began painting only in her late 50s.

Clementine Hunter produced an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 paintings in her lifetime. Hunter was granted an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by Northwestern State University of Louisiana in 1986, and she is the first African-American artist to have a solo exhibition at the present-day New Orleans Museum of Art.

2018年7月25日 · She was the first African-American artist to have a solo exhibition at the Delgado Museum, which is now the New Orleans Museum of Art. President Jimmy Carter invited her to the White House, although she declined the invitation. She received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Northwestern State University of Louisiana in 1986.