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Jimmie Lee Sudduth

Jimmie Lee Sudduth (1910 - 2007) was active/lived in Alabama.  Jimmie Sudduth is known for Outsider-animal, architecture, figure.

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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.  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.  Together they adopted a young boy, Rance Maddov, who was an artist and later drowned.  Sudduth spent most of his life working on rural farms a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2339 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Jimmie Lee Sudduth

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jimmie Lee Sudduth
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Grass-Roots Art - Southern Visions July 2003 Ebony & Wodell Yes
American Artist Introducing Alabama April 2001 Baxter, Kathleen Yes
3 Book References for Jimmie Lee Sudduth
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Conwill, Kinshasha, et. all Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
192 Yes
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