Clyde Connell (1901–May 2, 1998) was an American female abstract impressionist sculptor.[1]
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She grew up in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who lived and worked in a cabin at Lake Bistineau during her later years.
In 1922, she married Thomas Dixon Connell Jr.
During her lifetime she was a member of the Presbyterian Women's leadership, representing Louisiana, and traveling to their annual national meeting in New York City.
It was there that she discovered abstract impressionism, and became a painter and sculptor. In the 1960s, she set up studio, and worked full time, making sculpture assemblages of wood, iron, and found material.
She is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans,[2] and her works are held in many private and public collections, including: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Masur Museum of Art, and Tulane University's Law School, University of Albany Art Museum.[3] have examples of her work.
Connell is the subject of a one-woman play, "Louisiana Women: Clyde" written by Lake Charles playwright Carolyn Woosley. The play was on tour throughout Louisiana in Fall 2010.[4] Notes on the research sources for the play were included in Woosley's playscripts' book.[5]
In the year of her passing, she was named a Louisiana "Living Legend" by the Louisiana.[6] In 2011, the Cameron Art Museum held a retrospective.[7][8]