A professionally printed silkscreen or serigraph by Clementine Hunter, pencil signed with her distinctive backwards overlapping "CH". Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) was a self-taught folk painter from the Cane River region of Louisiana. Her brightly colored paintings depicted Black Southern life including weddings, funerals, baptisms, farming and domestic labor. Mat framed with "38/60 D.C." penciled at lower left of print (and also on the mat) and with "© 1976 Dorothy Cohen" in pencil on the back of the print. An obituary in The Natchitoches Times for Dorothy Cohen (1914-2004) of Cane.....
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An original "photo genetics" artwork by Melvin Edward Nelson. Working primarily in the middle of the night with handmade pigments and watercolors gathered from his land in Colton Oregon, Melvin Edward Nelson (1908-1992) often signed his work "M.E.N.," which also stood for "Mighty Eternal Nation." He is said to have watched UFOs land on his property and Nelson would collect the earth and rocks from the area of the landings, which he believed to be imbued with special or cosmic powers. He would crush the rocks and minerals to make his own.....
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A signed and titled work, "The Whirling World," by Melvin Edward Nelson of Colton, Oregon. Working primarily in the middle of the night with handmade pigments and watercolors gathered from his land, Melvin Edward Nelson (1908-1992) often signed his work "M.E.N.," which also stood for "Mighty Eternal Nation." He is said to have watched UFOs land on his property and Nelson would collect the earth and rocks from the area of the landings, which he believed to be imbued with special or cosmic powers. He would crush the rocks and minerals to.....
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