Clementine Hunter, a celebrated self-taught Louisiana artist, produced an impressive collection of artwork that vividly ...

MELROSE, LA (KSLA) - The City of Natchitoches is honoring world-famous artist Clementine Hunter. Natchitoches Mayor Lee Posey’s proclamation of March 24 as Clementine Hunter Day credits the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Clementine Hunter was born on a ...

Melrose on the Cane, formerly known as Melrose Plantation, was established by the Métoyer family, free people of color who helped shape Louisiana’s Cane River Creole community. It later became a ...

View full sizeClementine Hunter usually painted on hard cardboard, and featured one theme per painting. A Baton Rouge couple who forged her work veered from that path. Above, 'Chicken Hauling Flowers, ...

Take the La. 119 exit off U.S. 49, drive about a quarter of a mile and you'll see St. Augustine Catholic Church standing along the Cane River. And resting quietly in a mausoleum behind the church is ...

No one preserved the stories along the Cane River better than Clementine Hunter. True, a bevy of noted writers passed through the area in her time, taking advantage of owner Cammie Henry's writers and ...

NATCHITOCHES, La. - Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter never imagined the humble “markings” she created on cardboard, canvas, and wood would one day sell at auctions for thousands of dollars. But ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

Louisiana artists Andrew Lamar Hopkins and the late Clementine Hunter never met. Hopkins was just 10 years old when Hunter died in 1988. Yet right this minute, the two folk art masters are harmonizing ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana museum is showing more than 50 works by one of America’s most important self-taught artists, Clementine Hunter. The exhibit includes some rarely seen abstract paintings ...