Documentary on Clementine Hunter
name: label: Creator
content: Hunter, Clementine
label: Names
content: Fagaly, William A.
label: Names
content: Gasperi, Richard
label: Names
content: Whitehead, Thomas
topic: label: Occupation
content: Folk artists -- Louisiana
label: Occupation
content: Self-taught artists -- Louisiana
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American painters
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1986 by Richard Gasperi, owner of the Gasperi Folk Art Gallery in New Orleans
creator: label: Creator
content: Hunter, Clementine
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887-1988) was an African American folk artist in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Videocassettes (videocassettes (80 min.), sd., col., 3/4 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.huntclem
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Unedited video footage produced by Didi Barret of the Museum of American Folk Art with the assistance of Richard Gasperi of the Gasperi Folk Art Gallery, New Orleans, La. Footage includes views of Hunter's murals in the "African House" at Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches, La., with comments by Hunter's friends Thomas Whitehead and Mildred Bailey; an interview of Hunter conducted by Whitehead on April 21, 1985; views of 27 sketches from Hunter's 1945 sketchbook with comments by art dealer Richard Gasperi; and a tour of the New Orleans Museum of Art's exhibition, "A New Orleans Salute to Clementine Hunter's Centennial," narrated by curator William Fagaly.