Clyde (Dixon) Connell (1901 - 1998)

Born 19 Sep 1901 in Belcher, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Died 1 May 1998 at age 96 in Elm Grove, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Clyde (Dixon) Connell is Notable.

BIRTH 19 Sep 1901 Belcher, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA DEATH 1 May 1998 (aged 96) Elm Grove, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA BURIAL Forest Park East Cemetery Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA PLOT Section B, Lot 77 MEMORIAL ID 14720368 · View Source

MEMORIAL

Sculptress, primitive artist and civil rights advocate. Featured in People magazine and on PBS and was the subject of at least two books. Her works were featured in the show "Different Drummers" at the Hirschhorn Museum of Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and in the "The Dream of Egypt" at the Centro Cutural/Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. The state of Louisiana declared her a "state treasure" in 1998. She blended wood carving and mixed media, and over the course of years developed a style of crafting almost architectural forms that echoed primitive totems. She fashioned art from wood on the Caddo Parish Penal Farm that her husband, T.D. Connell, administered, and created woodcut portraits of the prisoners, often giving these to her subjects. By the 1970s, her primitive but gentle sculptures and wall hangings were sought by collectors and praised by critics across the country and abroad. Her moss-shaded house on the shores of Lake Bistineau was a magnet for art students and professional artists alike. Pieces in major galleries and museums across the world are mainly from her "Totems" and "Habitats" series, but she also created "Swamp Songs," two-dimensional works with rune-like inscriptions. Daughter of a plantation owner from Belcher in rural Caddo Parish, named after the River Clyde in Scotland.

Bio by: John Andrew Prime

Family Members Parents James Wilson William Dixon 1862–1922 Hattie Williamson Hall Dixon 1878–1979

Spouse Thomas Dixon Connell 1900–1985

Siblings James William Dixon 1902–1903

Janie Ellison Dixon Talbot 1903–1980

Anne Dixon Sewell 1906–2008

Louis Placide Dixon 1908–1987

Hattie Hall Dixon Freeman 1909–1954

Jared Sanders Dixon 1910–1994

Louis Heilperin Dixon 1912–2014

William Ellison Dixon 1914–1987

James William Dixon 1917–1944

Half Siblings Lottie Virginia Dixon Irion 1889–1919

Children Thomas Dixon Connell 1923–1973

Clyde Connell Ent 1928–2017

Clyde Connell was a sculptor and civil rights activist.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPTV-HK6 : accessed 25 March 2021), Clidie Dixon in household of G* Dixon, Police Jury Ward 1, Caddo, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 27, sheet 42A, family 905, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 509; FHL microfilm 1,374,522.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVQD-CVY : 1 February 2021), Clyde Dixon in entry for John W Dixon, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMTR-63P : accessed 25 March 2021), Clyde Connell in household of T D Connell Jr., Police Jury Ward 1, Caddo, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 24B, line 69, family 610, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 786; FHL microfilm 2,340,521.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYR8-YMT : 5 January 2021), Clyde Dixon Connell in household of T D Connell, Ward One, Caddo, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 9-3, sheet 1A, line 5, family 2, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1385.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYPT-66D : 10 January 2021), Clyde D Connell, 01 May 1998; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 March 2021), memorial page for Clyde Dixon Connell (19 Sep 1901–1 May 1998), Find A Grave: Memorial #14720368, citing Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Find-A-Grave.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Clyde Connell
• Wikidata: Item Q928416, en:Wikipedia