Jimmy Lee Sudduth
(American, 1910-2007)
Puck Building, Manhattan
Sale 1132 - Palm Beach Fine Art, Including Outsider Art from the Collection of Edith S. Peiser, Boca Raton, Florida
Feb 22, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Palm Beach
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$2,268
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Lot Description
Jimmy Lee Sudduth
(American, 1910-2007)
Puck Building, Manhattan
mud, paint, and glitter on wood
signed Jim Sudduth (bottom center)
81 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches.
Property from the Collection of Edith S. Peiser, Boca Raton, Florida
Born in Alabama in 1910, the African-American artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth began painting as a small child. Self-taught, he produced his own paint from Alabama mud combined with soot, axle-grease, coffe grounds and more, to create the color and consistency he desired.
He used his fingers as paint bush to apply the paint to scrap lumber, sheet metal and plywood. His works depict everyday life in Alabama but also buildings in Manhattan and Washington, D.C.
Widely recognized now, Sudduth had his first show in the late 1960s, but became popular in the 1980s. Today his paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama.
He used his fingers as paint bush to apply the paint to scrap lumber, sheet metal and plywood. His works depict everyday life in Alabama but also buildings in Manhattan and Washington, D.C.
Widely recognized now, Sudduth had his first show in the late 1960s, but became popular in the 1980s. Today his paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Folk Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama.
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