For many years, Mrs. Clementine Hunter made clothes
and quilts, she was even a great basketmaker!
So what happened in 1939, when she found some
tubes of paint that got left behind?
The beginning of her painting career.
Mrs. Hunter painted over 5,000 paintings.
She worked well into her nineties.
She painted the hard life that African
Americans experienced in the rural South.
When she started painting she had absolutely
no money of her own. Mrs. Hunter used water
to thin her paints so they would last longer.
She put these watercolors on canvases
and anything else she could get her hands on.
Her simple, yet colorful paintings, sold for
as low as 25 cents in the '40s. Today her
popular paintings may go for as high as $20,000.
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