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1050 Woodley Road Montgomery, Alabama 36106 (334) 262-5349 Fax: (334) 567-0060 weberart@mindspring.com |
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| Jimmie Lee Sudduth
Born March 10, 1910, Died September 2, 2007 Cains Ridge, Fayette County, Alabama |
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"Cotton Pickers" mud and paint on wood 24.5" x 48.5" $2200u (9662)
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| One of Sudduth's earliest memories is of painting a picture at the age of three. The son of an Indian "medicine lady," he recalls painting with a mud and honey mixture on the surface of a freshly cut tree stump while he and his mother were in the woods looking for medicine plants. When they returned days later, the painting was still there. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Two Fiddlers" mud and paint on wood 24.5" x 24.5" $1000u (9663)
| His mother saw this as a good "sign" and encouraged him thereafter to paint. Finger-painting with mud-earth ochres and "sweet water" became a continual part of his life. He also experimented with adding color to his work by using wild berries, grasses and "paint rocks."
He married an Indian girl at an early age and they had one daughter. After his first wife's death, Sudduth married Ethel Palmore, his wife of more than thirty years, until her death in 1992. He and Ethel adopted a young boy, Rance Maddov, who was an artist and who later drowned. Sudduth spent most of his life working on rural farms and grinding corn meal in the Fayette County area. |
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"Cowboy" mud and paint on wood 24 "x 23.5" $1000u (9664)
| Around 1950 Sudduth moved to the town of Fayette and was an active handyman and gardener for many of the townspeople. He was always eager to make someone a painting and to share a tune on his harmonica so he quickly became a local celebrity. | |||
"Cotton Picking Time" mud and paint on wood 24.5 "x 24.25" $1000u (9667)
| In 1972 the first public exhibition of his work was organized by Jack Black, Sudduth's life-long friend, at the Fayette Art Museum. Sudduth was selected as one of two artists to represent Alabama and traveled to the Smithsonian Institution for the Bicentennial Festival of American Folk life in 1976.
The Birmingham Museum of Art exhibited his paintings in 1978 and two years later, he was featured on national television on the Today Show. |
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"Clogging" mud and paint on wood 24" x 24" $1100u (9668)
| "I've been all the way to New York City and my pictures are all over this world!" Sudduth lives in a small house near the railroad track with his new dog, Toto. (The old "Toto" died in 1995.) He greeted a steady stream of visitors who find their way there from throughout the world to watch Sudduth paint and to hear him wail out the blues on his harmonica. | |||
"Flowers" mud and paint on wood 24" x 23.5" $1000u (9669)
"First Car in Fayette" mud and paint on wood 24" x 24" $1000u (9670)
"Armadilla" mud and paint on wood 24" x 48" $2200 (2269)
"Dancer" mud and paint on wood in black shadowbox 48" x 24" $3000 (2266)
Detail from "Dancer" (2266)
Detail from "Dancer" (2266)
"Grimsley House" c. 1994 mud and paint on wood in wide black frame 36" x 24" $5800 (2257)
Photo of the actual Grimsley House in Fayette, Alabama
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