Thomas Whitehead (2023)
Louisiana Legends
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Interview
Place Covered: Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2023-04-14
Duration: 00:25:04
Subjects: HUNTER, CLEMENTINE | Arts
Contributors:
- Merrick, Robyn Host
- White, Avery Producer
- Robertson, Kirk Photographer
- Whitehead, Thomas Interviewee
Description
This episode of the series “Louisiana Legends” from April 14, 2023, features Robyn Merrick’s interview with Thomas Whitehead. Whitehead is a professor emeritus of journalism at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, an expert and preservationist for the Clementine Hunter Collection, and a Clementine Hunter biographer. He discusses: his childhood in Pride, Louisiana; his relationship with the artist Clementine Hunter; the importance of her work; his work with the FBI to protect Hunter’s work from forgery; and his favorite pieces of her work.