Minnie Reinhardt

Minnie Smith Reinhardt (1898–1986) was an American naïve painter, known for her memory paintings.

Sometimes called the "Grandma Moses of Catawba County", Reinhardt grew happening in the community of Jugtown, today called Vale. One of eleven children, she helped out on the relatives farm from an before age. She along with attended school, where she was adept to draw. Aged nearly eighteen, she took a slant as a chef at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory. There she performed numerous housekeeping duties; she also university to sew, which she would do for people around the county. She along with helped out in the fields, and raised the six kids she had afterward Belton Reinhardt. The family home burned to the arena in 1932, and the intimates lived in the granary until a new home could be constructed.

By 1974 Reinhardt's vision had become so shortened by cataracts that she was unable to distinguish shapes and colors. Surgery restored her sight, and the experience pushed her to begin painting following more, using oil paints fixed to her by her daughter Arie Taylor. As a painter she was no question self-taught. Her works depict a variety of daily activities remembered from her youth. She painted daily at a little desk in stomach of a window in her home, and was enormously prolific previously her death. Her husband made frames for many of her the end paintings. Reinhardt and her husband are buried in the cemetery of Corinth Baptist Church in Vale.

Reinhardt was the subject of an exhibit at the Hickory Museum of Art in 1996. Today that museum owns numerous examples of her work, as with ease as the desk at which she painted. She is the subject of a catalog, Mine's My Style: The Paintings of Minnie Reinhardt, published in conjunction in the make public of the museum exhibition of her work.