Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
DesChamps, Minnie |
Other names |
Minnie Zelda DesChamps |
Dates & places of birth and death |
B. 1907 (maybe 1889) D. 1986 (maybe 1987) |
Nationality |
American |
Notes |
According to Doris Leeper, writing in the 1969 issue of Sandlapper magazine, DesChamps "painted the African-American farm laborers of Shiloh and Mayesville, chopping cotton, planting seedlings or just resting in the sun. She knew these rural communities intimately, and her great devotion to them pervades her work." DesChamps also traveled to Florida and coastal South Carolina, and painted wonderful "circus" pictures from the Ringling Brothers summer compound and ocean scenes from Garden City. Leeper wrote, "The simple, untrained style seems eminently suited to her subject matter." |
Places of residence |
Sumter, South Carolina |
Role |
Artist |
