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Discover and Enjoy the Art of Clementine Hunter, "Outsider Artist"
Louisiana's most famous artist, Clementine Hunter, was born in 1886 at Hidden Hill Plantation below Cloutierville, LA. 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 before mechanization came to agriculture. Her pictures of cotton pickings, washdays, pecan pickings, weddings, baptisms, 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 artisis 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. Thanks to Gitter Gallery for the above commentary.
Some of Clementine Hunter's original art likenesses have been transferred to ceramic with the artwork likenesses hand-painted onto the ceramic.
The pieces we currently stock are shown below. Enjoy them as art hanging in your home or as functional ceramics to be adorn the home and to be enjoyed while serving others a delicious meal.
The beauty of Clementine Hunter's art is just being discovered by many as they are now available in ceramic pieces to be enjoyed everyday. These beautiful, functional art pieces make fine gifts.
As business owners who have collected and continue to enjoy the works of untrained "outsider" artists as Clementine Hunter, we support outsider artists and their artwork. We encourage you to explore the originality, depth of soul, sense of time and place, serenity of spirit, intensity of the moment, juxtaposition of earthliness with the greatness beyond, and warmth and compassion within the individual spirit through outsider art, particularly the art of Clementine Hunter.
Bring Clementine Hunter's works into your home -- Zeto in Greensboro, NC, has many of the new Clementine Hunter ceramic pieces. Call or email 336.574.2850 or Zeto@ZetoGifts.com
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