Jimmy Lee Sudduth Folk Art Painting
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Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) mixed media including paint and mud on compressed wood board, likely a furniture fragment, painting depicting a figure with one arm raised into the air with a group of smaller figures standing on a stepped platform below. Signed "Jim" lower center. 42 1/2" H x 15" W.
Biography: "Jimmy Lee Sudduth's fertile imagination led him to paint self-portraits, dogs, television personalities, and the architecture and landscape near his home in Fayette, Alabama, as well as views of New York and other cities. Sudduth's materials—mud mixed with sugar water and color extracted from weeds and vegetables—are no less inventive than his themes. He rarely uses canvases or brushes, preferring to use his fingers to paint with clay, mud, sand, and soot on plywood." Source: Lynda Hartigan, Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Exhibition Text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999.
Biography: "Jimmy Lee Sudduth's fertile imagination led him to paint self-portraits, dogs, television personalities, and the architecture and landscape near his home in Fayette, Alabama, as well as views of New York and other cities. Sudduth's materials—mud mixed with sugar water and color extracted from weeds and vegetables—are no less inventive than his themes. He rarely uses canvases or brushes, preferring to use his fingers to paint with clay, mud, sand, and soot on plywood." Source: Lynda Hartigan, Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Exhibition Text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999.
Condition
Very good condition. Abrasions and holes to upper left and right and en verso occurred in or prior to the making.
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Jimmy Lee Sudduth Folk Art Painting
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