"Cotton Picking" Clementine Hunter

Origional Oil on Board Painting
Artwork Size: 15.5 x 13.5 in.
Frame Size: 17 x 18 in.
Signed, Bottom Right.
 
 
Celebrated American folk artist Clementine Hunter (1887–1988) delivers a poignant, deeply personal visual record of everyday life and labor on Louisiana’s Melrose Plantation. Working in her signature expressive style, Hunter arranges figures across a dusty rose-colored field, each wearing wide-brimmed hats and carrying heavy, white cotton sacks as they gather the crop. Set against bands of vibrant green ground and a multi-toned sky, the composition relies on flattened perspective, rhythmic repetition, and thick, tactile paint to honor the dignity, endurance, and shared effort of the plantation workers.
 
This piece is ready to hang in a vintage frame with metallic leaf detail.