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Clyde Connell (1901–May 2, 1998) was an American self-taught abstract impressionist sculptor. Her works are known for reflecting the nature of Louisiana and the culture of Jim Crow South. ==Life== Born Minnie Clyde Dixon and raised in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, in northwestern Louisiana, Connell married Thomas Dixon Connell Jr in 1922. She lived and worked in a cabin at Lake Bistineau during her later years. During her lifetime she was a member of the Presbyterian Women's leadership, representing Louisiana, and traveling to their annual national meeting in New York City. It was there that she discovered abstract impressionism, and became a painter and sculptor. In the 1960s, she set up studio, and worked full-time, making sculpture assemblages of wood, iron, and found material. Connell didn't find national recognition until she was 81.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20082585,00.html )〕 In 1984 she was one of six women honored by the Women's Caucus for Art. She is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans,〔http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=15〕 and her works are held in many private and public collections, including: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana, the Masur Museum of Art, Tulane University's Law School, the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum and University of Albany Art Museum.〔(Clyde Connell )〕 Connell is the subject of a one-woman play, "Louisiana Women: Clyde" written by Lake Charles playwright Carolyn Woosley. The play was on tour throughout Louisiana in Fall 2010.〔(Clyde Connell | Louisiana Women on Stage )〕 Notes on the research sources for the play were included in Woosley's playscripts' book.〔Bibliography, page 65, "Carolyn Woosley's Louisiana Women: Originals and Visionaries," Published by EvilTwin Publishing, September 2010 (Lake Charles, Louisiana).〕 In the year of her death, she was named a Louisiana "Living Legend" by the state of Louisiana.〔(Sculpture.org )〕 In 2011, the Cameron Art Museum held a retrospective.〔(Cameron Art Museum )〕〔("The Cameron Art Museum Shows "Swamp Songs" of Clyde Connell" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clyde Connell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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