<I>Window Shade</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1950s
name: label: Attributed to
content: Clementine Hunter, American, ca. 1886 - 1988
label: Subject of
content: Melrose Plantation, American, founded 1832
notes: label: Description
content: An oil painting painted directly onto a roller window shade. The painting depicts scenes of plantation and pastoral life in Louisiana in vignettes that run across the surface in horizontal bands. The shade is mostly, but not completely, retracted. The shade is shadowbox framed, with the canvas stapled and glued to the backing board along the top edge, and glued at the bottom edge. At the top of the painting a strip of blue depicts the sky. Below the sky are two horizontal rows of figures picking cotton, four people in each row, interspersed with trees. A grey house with a fence is depicted to the right of the figures. There is a slight gap, below which are another three rows of horizontal scenes. The top row begins with a green house at the left. A line of seven people are walking out of the house towards a white church at the right. A person in a yellow dress is standing at the bottom of the church steps. The next row depicts a mule-drawn cart with three people inside, two holding parasols, and a row of five people standing to the right of the mule. In the bottom row are five trees. The painting is signed [CH] at the lower right corner.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Rural life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Rand and Dana Jack family, in honor of Rand's grandmother, Blythe Rand, who early recognized and supported the special talents of Clementine Hunter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.176.1
objectType: label: Type
content: oil paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Cane River Art Corporation
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil paint on canvas roller shade
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (painting): 42 × 35 7/8 in. (106.7 × 91.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 48 × 43 3/8 in. (121.9 × 110.2 cm)