Juanita Leonard Folk Art Genre Scene Acrylic Painting with Figures

Item Details

Juanita Leonard (American, 20th/21st century)
Mommy Driving the Wagon, Smoking Her Pipe
Acrylic painting on panel
Signed to the lower right
Title inscribed to verso

‘Many of Leonard’s early-memory paintings recall scenes from a childhood spent growing tomatoes, picking pecans, and fishing in Cane River Lake. Her paintings depict African American life in the rural south in a manner similar to fellow Natchitoches Parish artist Clementine Hunter, whom Leonard credits as an influence. Hunter lived on the Cane River at Melrose Plantation, where she worked as a field hand, and began painting on a window shade after she found paints a visiting artist had left behind.’

-Country Roads Magazine

Condition

- scuffs and abrasions; chips and abrasions to frame; tears to backing paper to verso of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measure 23.5" W x 17.25" H.

• Item not examined outside of mounting

Item #

ITMGM03733