- Clyde Connell
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Clyde Connell (1901–May 2, 1998) was an American female abstract impressionist sculptor.[1]
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Life
She grew up in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who lived and worked in a cabin at Lake Bistineau during her later years.
In 1922, she married Thomas Dixon Connell Jr.
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.
She is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans,[2] and her works are held in many private and public collections, including: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Masur Museum of Art, and Tulane University's Law School, University of Albany Art Museum.[3] have examples of her work.
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.[4] Notes on the research sources for the play were included in Woosley's playscripts' book.[5]
In the year of her passing, she was named a Louisiana "Living Legend" by the Louisiana.[6] In 2011, the Cameron Art Museum held a retrospective.[7][8]
Notable works
- Numbered and Filed #2, 1984
- Dialogue Gate, 1981
- Bound People, 1987
- Inner Place Habitat, 1977
- Triptych #1, 1991
- Bistineau Memory, 1966
Sources
- Charlotte Moser (1991). Clyde Connell: The Art and Life of a Louisiana Woman. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292711419. http://books.google.com/books?id=Gf38mP02eKsC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=Clyde+Connell&source=bl&ots=l6dNaB35rp&sig=nsfUbYW6by_mOuyYT6L6kzcEmnw&hl=en&ei=x1IOTowplLbQAZSotLQO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Clyde Connell: daughter of the bayou, Meadows Museum of Art, 2000
References
- ^ Roberta Smith (May 10, 1998). "Clyde Connell, 97, Sculptor Inspired by Louisiana Bayous". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/nyregion/clyde-connell-97-sculptor-inspired-by-louisiana-bayous.html.
- ^ http://www.arthurrogergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=15
- ^ http://www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/crossing/artist8.htm
- ^ http://www.louisianawomenonstage.com/clyde-connell
- ^ Bibliography, page 65, "Carolyn Woosley's Louisiana Women: Originals and Visionaries," Published by EvilTwin Publishing, September 2010 (Lake Charles, Louisiana).
- ^ http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag98/connel/sm-connl.shtml
- ^ http://www.cameronartmuseum.com/exhibitions.php
- ^ "The Cameron Art Museum Shows "Swamp Songs" of Clyde Connell"
External links
Categories:- 1901 births
- 1998 deaths
- American sculptors
- People from Shreveport, Louisiana
- Artists from Louisiana
- American sculptor stubs
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