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Panorama of Baptism on Cane River

Clementine Hunter1945

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, United States

This painting depicts one of the great events of Southern life, a mass outdoor baptism in a stream. The initiates march along the riverbank in white gowns. Preachers in clerical black gowns and men are behind them.

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  • Title: Panorama of Baptism on Cane River
  • Creator: Clementine Hunter
  • Date Created: 1945
  • Location Created: Louisiana
  • Physical Dimensions: 36" x 67"
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: Gift of the Roger H. Ogden Collection
  • Medium: Oil on window shade
  • Art Movement: Vernacular art, self-taught art
  • Art Form: Oil painting, landscape painting
Ogden Museum of Southern Art

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