Was born March 10, 1910, in Fayette County, Alabama and passed away on September 2, 2007, at the age of 97. As a child, Jimmy Lee Sudduth spent many hours accompanying his mother, an herbal healer, through the woods as she gathered plants. To amuse himself one day he picked up some mud and painted a face on a tree. Three weeks later, he was amazed to find it still intact. Though today he has added acrylic paint to his paintings, Sudduth still uses mud mixed with sugar water to create his simple but endearing paintings of people and animals. Sudduths work has been exhibited extensively by museums and galleries since 1970, when he was discovered by Jack Black, Director of the Fayette Art Museum. In 1976 he was included in The Smithsonian Institutions Bicentennial Festival of American Folk Life, and two years later the Birmingham Museum of Art mounted an exhibition of his work. Outsider Folk Art – Jimmy Lee Sudduth Painting – HAY WAGON – paint and mud – SIGNED 24X 24. Fertile imagination has 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. Big City Skyline, rows of people filing across a bridge toward a crowded mass. Of towering skyscrapers emphasize the anonymity of life in Americas large cities. Mixed with sugar water and color extracted from weeds and vegetablesare no less inventive than his. He rarely uses canvases or brushes, preferring to use his fingers to paint with clay, mud, sand. And soot on plywood. Lynda Hartigan Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Jimmy Lee Sudduth remembered drawing shapes in the dirt as a child. He also made his own charcoal from. Wood coals and used it to draw all over the inside walls of his house Jimmy Lee Sudduth Paintings To Be. Exhibited At Museum, September. Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Sudduth created mud paintings by applying a mixture of earth and sugar to pieces of plywood with his fingers. He rubbed weeds, berries, and soot over the mud to get different colors, and claimed that. You can paint a. Thousand dollars worth of pictures with just a cupful of sugar. Plywood for his canvas, turnip greens for paint, old houses as subject, The Christian. The item “Outsider Folk Art ORIGINAL Jimmy Lee Sudduth Painting HAY WAGON SIGNED 24X 24″ is in sale since Sunday, April 25, 2021. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “tjinsales” and is located in Lodi, California. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Region of Origin: US – Southeast
- Artist: Jimmie Lee Sudduth
- Style: Folk Art
- Material: Wood
- Date of Creation: Unknown
- Type: Paintings
- Features: Signed
- Width (Inches): 24″
- Color: Multi-Color
- Subject: Hay Wagon
- Originality: Original
- Height (Inches): 24″
