I don't know much about art, so I'm not going to attempt to judge it. Yet, I like the idea of occasionally highlighting African American artists in these morning photo posts. First up is Clementine Hunter (1888-1988), a folk artist (apparently, people like to call her the "black Grandma Moses") that I have a particular amount of affection for because she was born and raised in my grandparents' hometown — Cane River, La. Most of her oil paintings depict her memories of a dying plantation life. She was the first African American artist to show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and rose to national acclaim after Look magazine did a profile of her in 1953.