Circa 1974 Cabin House Portrait Mixed-Media Painting by Outsider Artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth

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Painted with all mud and natural pigments except for trees and other areas done with art pencils. Masterpiece example of … Read more Painted with all mud and natural pigments except for trees and other areas done with art pencils. Masterpiece example of Cabin. Painted during a brief period when some early dealers supplied Jim with Art Pencils for a few years.
From NY Times:

A self-taught artist, Mr Sudduth was renowned for the effect he could produce with his own homemade paint, which consisted of Alabama mud blended with a variety of common substances- soot, axle grease, sugar, coffee grounds and much else- to lend color and texture. Many applied and worked with his fingers.

His art is in permanent collections including the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum of art and the Montgomery Museum of fine Arts as well as many others.

Writing in the New York Times in 1997 Michael Kimmelman reviewed an exhibition at the Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture that included Sudduths paintings. He described them as a’’pictures of improbable chalky luminosity and understated bliss’. See less