Clyde Connell: Swamp Songs

In a New York Times obituary, noted art critic Roberta Smith described Louisiana artist Clyde Connell’s source of inspiration: “Like O’Keefe, she drew inspiration from the region in which she lived. She used brown earth and red clay to color her drawings and sculptures, as well as bits of iron scrap that her son, Bryan, a cotton farmer, found in his fields. She had a mystical view of nature and described her drawings as transcriptions of its music, heard on the bayou.” Connell died at the age of 97, having worked full-time as an artist since her sixties. Connell’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Austin Museum of Art.

This exhibition, organized by the Cameron Art Museum, will include work loaned from the private collections of Connell’s family members, in addition to work from museum collections. The exhibition will include sculpture, drawings, paintings, photographs, film and ephemera relating to the artist’s life and work.