Folk Artist Clementine Hunter

The folk artist I would like to discuss is Clementine Hunter. She was born in 1886 on a cotton plantation in Cloutierville, Louisiana. Life on the plantation was hard on both the mind and body. Clementine didn't like school so she stopped going at an early age. She didn't have any educational background except life on the plantation. At the age of fifty-four, she was promoted from the fields to the house. The assistant of the house noticed her creativity right away through her chores of making dolls and clothing for the plantation owner's children. This led to her interest in art and everything is history from there. Her paintings were beautiful and her style was in a simple, straight forward way. She painted over 4,000 paintings in her lifetime.

Clementine falls into many of the characteristics of being a folk artist. She didn't have any formal training and was actually illiterate for her entire life. All the art