 Jimmie
Lee Sudduth
Jimmie Lee Sudduth, one of America’s most famous outsider
artists, was born on March 10, 1910 in Caines Ridge, Alabama.
He grew up in the pre-60’s South and as many blacks
in those times had little formal education. A self-taught
folk artist, at eight years old Jimmy Lee Sudduth was covering
almost anything that didn’t move with his own “sweet
mud” concoction of mud, berries, sugar, coffee grounds
and plants. Indians, animals, his dog Toto, mansions and other
fanciful imaginative works rendered in his signature medium
on plywood have remained among his favorite subjects with
the recent addition of house paint to add color to his works.
A musician and wonderful storyteller as well as consummate
contemporary folk artist, Jimmie Lee Sudduth continues to
be widely collected and exhibited.
Jimmie
Lee Sudduth, renowned, self-taught folk artist, passed away
on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at the age of 97.
Examples
of Permanent Folk Art Collections which include Jimmie Lee
Sudduth works:
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
American Folk Art Museum, New York
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Representative
Folk Art Publications Include:
“Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century
American Folk Art and Artists”, Chuck and Jan Rosenak
“Revelations: Alabama’s Visionary Folk Artists”,
Kemp and Boyer
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