Rare Clementine Hunter Print "Picking Cotton" Signed and Numbered. 20x16. Framed.

This print is number 178 out of 350. It is signed by Clementine Hunter. My family had this hanging in our house for many years starting around the early/mid 1980s. It has a creamy white mat and a red metal frame. It has a wire for hanging on the back.

The red frame has a few scrapes as shown in photo.  Those kinds of scrapes are on multiple spots around the frame.

The print (from the inside the mat) is 20”x16”. The mat was created with a deeper bottom so that the whole piece is nearly a large square of 24 3/4" tall and 22 3/4" wide.

We are willing to remove from mat and frame in order to mail in tube if buyer wishes.  If that choice, we would adjust the shipping cost accordingly. (That's probably the wisest choice for shipping.)

“One of the most celebrated folk artists of the American South, Clementine Hunter painted vibrant scenes of baptisms, funerals, field workers picking cotton, and women washing clothes in and around the central Louisiana plantation where she spent most of her life. In 1955 she became the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work remained little known outside of Louisiana until the 1970s, when both the American Folk Art Museum in New York and LACMA staged exhibitions of her paintings. Entirely self-taught, Hunter did not begin painting until well into her fifties, creating her first work using paints and brushes left behind at the plantation. She is often compared to Grandma Moses, another self-taught artist who started painting late in life. Working at night after working all day in the plantation house, she used readily available materials—including discarded fabric, window shades, jugs, and gourds—as her canvases.” From Artsy website