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CLYDE CONNELL b. 1901, Belcher, Louisiana d. 1998, Lake Bistineau, Louisiana Pondering Place, 1981 Mixed-media sculpture; 80 x 25 x 25 in. Roger H. Ogden Collection Minnie Clyde Dixon Connell was a world-renowned artist from North Louisiana whom some writers have called a “Southern Georgia O’Keeffe” and the essence of whose art has been compared to the writings of William Faulkner. She gained an international following for her spiritually charged totemic sculptures inspired by the natural beauty surrounding Lake Bistineau in Caddo Parish, where she resided in the later years of her life. Her sculptures, characteristically made of wood and papier-mâché, combined Abstract Expressionism with the natural environment of Lake Bistineau, and they often reflected the lives and hardships of African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. JRK ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA 243  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1233 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1233

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