CLEMENTINE REUBEN HUNTER, (American, 1887-1987)

CLEMENTINE REUBEN HUNTER
(American 1887-1987)
Zinnias Looking at You
oil on board
monogrammed CH lower right; inscribed with title verso
23 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.

Provenance: Purchased at Melrose Plantation November 13 1980. Inscribed verso Purchased from Melrose Plantation Gift Shop "The Bindery" November 13 1980 - Purchased by John Leake. This note by Ann Hillis manager and weaver at Melrose Plantation.; Property of a distinguished Manhattan New York collection.

Clementine Hunter is one of the most celebrated folk artists of the twentieth century. Born just two decades after the Civil War she lived her entire life in rural Louisiana. She began painting in the 1940s depicting scenes of rural life from memory in her self-taught style. By the 1970s she had garnered widespread critical acclaim and her works had been exhibited at numerous institutions including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York.