Clementine Hunter picked cotton for decades. Then she picked up a paintbrush, and changed American folk art forever

Clementine Hunter picked cotton for decades. Then she picked up a paintbrush, and changed American folk art forever

“I tell my stories by making pictures… I paint the story of my people. The things that happened to me and the ones I know. My paintings tell how we worked, played, and prayed.”— Clementine Hunter, American folk artist Fishing by Clementine Hunter. Photo Credit: Christie’s Many people figure that when they reach their late fifties, the party’s pretty much over. Your quirks and idiosyncrasies have hardened into permanent fixtures of your personali…

Clementine Hunter: Painting Black Life from Memory

Clementine Hunter taught herself to paint in her fifities and spent the rest of her life chronicling the Black Southern experience.