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  2. The Old Plantation - Wikipedia

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    The Old Plantation is an American folk art watercolor probably painted in the late 18th century on a South Carolina plantation. [3] [4] [5] It is notable for its early date, its credible, non-stereotypical depiction of slaves on the North American mainland, and the fact that the slaves are shown pursuing their own interests.

  3. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Stratford Hall is a classic example of Southern plantation architecture, built on an H-plan and completed in 1738 near Lerty, Virginia. The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the ...

  4. Clementine Hunter - Wikipedia

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    Hunter's work can be found in numerous museums such as the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the American Folk Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Louisiana State Museum. [14] Clementine Hunter's World is a 2017 documentary directed by noted Hunter scholar Art Shiver. [35]

  5. Southern art - Wikipedia

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    Art from Southern United States, or Southern art, includes Southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans houses the largest single collection of Southern art. [1] In 1992, the Morris Museum of Art opened to the public in Augusta, Georgia, with a focus on mid-twentieth century American Southern ...

  6. William Aiken Walker - Wikipedia

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    Cotton Pickers, oil painting on panel by William Aiken Walker Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863, oil painting on canvas, 1886, Gibbes Museum of Art William Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) was an American artist best known for genre paintings of African-American sharecroppers .

  7. Negro Life at the South - Wikipedia

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    Negro Life at the South (1859) is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the private life of African-American slaves in Washington, D.C. It was painted in Washington, D.C., and is now owned by the New York Public Library, on permanent loan to the New-York Historical Society.

  8. Plantations aren't the only destinations tied to slavery ...

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    Throughout the South, people can visit plantations and other destinations tied to slavery, but the connections aren’t always clear. They can be in surprising places and look nothing like expected.

  9. Bélizaire and the Frey Children - Wikipedia

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    The painting is the "first naturalistic portrait of a named Black subject set in a Southern landscape" in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. [3] Its display is part of a national trend in museums and Southern historic sites to "address their history of slavery and how ... wealth was accumulated".