Complex sentence: Painting from memory, she is credited as an important social and cultural historian for her documentation of plantation life in the early 20th century, including picking cotton, picking pecans, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals.
Split into simpler sentences: Painting from memory, she is credited as an important social and cultural historian for her documentation of plantation life in the early 20th century. Her paintings portray picking cotton and pecans, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals.