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Cane River Church Gathering by Clementine Hunter
- This church gathering captures one of Clementine Hunter’s defining subjects
- Hunter records the faith, fellowship and daily life of Louisiana’s Cane River community
- The work offers a direct connection to Black Southern life through an artist who lived it
- Hunter’s memory paintings made her one of the most celebrated self-taught artists of the American South
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1886/87-1988 | American
Cane River Church Gathering
Monogrammed "CH" (center right)
Oil on board
Clementine Hunter captures the spirit of community worship in Cane River Church Gathering, a vivid memory painting rooted in Black Southern life. Set before a white church with green trim, the scene presents neighbors gathered in procession, carrying bright bouquets and coming together in faith, ceremony and fellowship.
Hunter brings the scene to life through. . .
1886/87-1988 | American
Cane River Church Gathering
Monogrammed "CH" (center right)
Oil on board
Clementine Hunter captures the spirit of community worship in Cane River Church Gathering, a vivid memory painting rooted in Black Southern life. Set before a white church with green trim, the scene presents neighbors gathered in procession, carrying bright bouquets and coming together in faith, ceremony and fellowship.
Hunter brings the scene to life through bold color, flattened perspective and direct, expressive forms. Figures in purple clothing move across the composition with flowers in hand, while others gather near the churchyard. The simplified shapes and rhythmic arrangement give the painting a joyful sense of movement, transforming a local religious gathering into a powerful record of shared community life.
A self-taught artist from Louisiana’s Cane River region, Hunter worked as a field laborer and later as a domestic worker at Melrose Plantation before beginning to paint in her fifties. Her “memory paintings” preserve the work, worship, celebrations and traditions of her community with extraordinary honesty and immediacy. Baptisms, funerals and church scenes recur throughout her oeuvre, reflecting the central role of faith in the world she remembered and recorded.
20th century
Board: 9 3/4" high x 24" wide (24.77 x 60.96 cm)
Frame: 10 1/2" high x 24 3/4" wide x 1 3/8" deep (26.67 x 62.87 x 3.49 cm)
Provenance:
Private collection, Louisiana
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
| Maker: | Hunter, Clementine |
| Period: | 1919-Present |
| Origin: | America |
| Type: | Paintings |
| Style: | Folk Art |
| Depth: | 1.38 in. (3.49 cm) |
| Width: | 24.75 in. (62.87 cm) |
| Height: | 10.5 in. (26.67 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 24.000 in. (60.96 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 9.750 in. (24.77 cm) |
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