Thelma Moore Original Painting Cotton Gin, Loading Cotton Cotton Ginning

Thelma Moore Original Acrylic Painting Cotton Gin, Loading Cotton, Cotton Ginning
Painted in Evergreen, Louisiana

THELMA MOORE FOLK ART PAINTING-CLEMENTINE HUNTER STYLE.
THELMA MOORE FOLK ART PAINTING DONE IN A SIMILAR STYLE AS FAMED FOLK ARTIST CLEMENTINE HUNTER. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS LISTING IS DERIVED FROM TWO NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, ONE DATED NOVEMBER 13TH, 1992, AND THE OTHER ESTIMATED TO BE FROM 1976. THELMA MOORE, DAUGHTER OF A BAPTIST MINISTER, LIVED HER WHOLE LIFE IN EVERGREEN, LOUISIANA. SHE WAS A FOLK ARTIST THAT PAINTED IN A STYLE VERY SIMILAR TO THAT OF CLEMENTINE HUNTER. HER SUBJECTS AND THEMES WERE EVERYDAY SCENES THAT SHE REMEMBERED FROM HER PAST. THELMA MOORE WAS A SELF PROCLAIMED "FOLK ARTIST", AND AS ONE OF THE ARTICLES STATES, "SHE BELIEVED PASSIONATELY THAT PEOPLE ARE IN DANGER OF DISCARDING SOME OF THEIR GREATEST VALUES IN FORGETTING THE PAST, AND THAT SHE WANTS TO PRESERVE IT."
THIS PAINTING LABELED "A SPRING DAY WORK" APPEARS TO BE ACRYLIC ON CANVAS AN