Untitled
Artist	Clementine Hunter
Year	1981
Medium	Oil and collage on canvas board
Location	National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Untitled is a 1981 painting by Clementine Hunter. It is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a rare self-portrait by an artist who usually depicted everyday life on the plantations that she lived on in Louisiana.

Description[edit]

Untitled is a self-portrait by Hunter. Keeping with many of her paintings, the painting is a landscape work, with a cloudy sky on the top and a tree and flowers growing from the bottom. An African American woman stands in the middle with a blue dress and her hands outstretched with a bouquet of roses. She faces a cut out, from an exhibition brochure from 1974, that features a photograph of the artist. Hunter's signature is on the lower proper left.^[1]

History[edit]

Hunter created this work in 1981. It was gifted to the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Evelyn M. Shambaugh.^[1]

Interpretation[edit]

Untitled is a rare self-portrait by Hunter. Curators at the NMWA interpret the painted woman in the artwork as showing respect to the artist for the success she has gained.^[1]

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