Sundays are made for card games, and this one is the handiwork of fêted artist Clementine Hunter. Born into a family of Louisiana Creole plantation workers in the late eighteen hundreds, Hunter became the first African American artist to hold a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She began picking cotton at the age of fifteen, and turned to painting in her fifties. Hunter was entirely self-taught and worked from memory, conjuring up vibrantly coloured scenes of plantation life in a singularly expressive style.
