Jimmie Lee Sudduth Folk Art Painting Football Player Large Outsider Art

Description: 96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Jimmie Lee Sudduth Folk Art Outsider Art Painting Football Player Large This Folk Art Painting by Outsider Artist Jimmie Lee Sudduth is of an unusual subject. Football Player (Possibly O.J. Simpson), paint, mud on plywood. Early Provenance: Warren Lowe. This is a colorful, Jimmie Lee Sudduth signed painting of a football player with number 32, OJ Simpsons jersey number 1969-1977.This is an unusual find, as most of the works that he masterfully created were of his dog Toto, Self-Portraits,Log Cabins and Statue of Liberties.On the top corner of the Sudduth painting is inscribed the Sudduth signature. The bright pink background and yellow black checkered border, with frontal figure of a helmeted football player, is in Sudduth's familiar primitive style. Rare folk art piece for football enthusiasts with very well documented provenance. (cat #3501) Original 2004 Auction lot # 438 See other Sudduth listed in my Ebay Shop Size: 36" w x 48" h. PROVENANCE: Purchased by Anton Haardt from Slotin Auction in April 2004, Collections of Pria Elizabeth Harmon, folk art collector and previous owner of works now housed atthe Metropolitan Museum. This Slotin Auction featured 818 lots; Notable items included: Jerry Brown jugs, Vale, NC, Swirl ware Face Vessels, and contemporary folk artists including Jimmy Lee Sudduth. * see photo of 2004 Catalog "Football Player" by Sudduth was advertised in the 2004 Auction as having been previously owned by Warren Lowe, an early folk art enthusiast who amassed a large number of folk art pieces in the 1980-1990's. Warren and his wife Sylvia, in their travels of collecting Folk Art, met many of the folk artists, such as Royal Robertson and other outsider artists. In 1992, in Lafayette, Louisiana, an exhibition of works, titled “It’ll Come True: Eleven Artists, First and Last”, was assembled from the holdings of the Louisiana-based collectors Warren and Sylvia Lowe. That exhibition featured works they had acquired since the presentation of a first exhibition of selections from their collection, “Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images from the South”, in the late 1980s, including pieces by Sulton Rogers, Herbert Singleton, Mose Tolliver,and Juanita Rogers & others. Size: 36"x 48" Very Large piece Excerpt from an essay on Sudduth by Anton Haardt Sudduth's work has been shown from New York to San Francisco and Europe. Jimmie Lee Sudduth lived in a shot gun house in Fayette, Alabama.He finger painted beautiful earth-toned pictures.He often used homegrown plants for color: Rose petals for red, wild turnip leaves for green, a chalky clay for white. "I don't like to use paint too much," he said. Sudduth was also an accomplished harmonica player and often would sit down and wail out a spiritual while his painting dries. He was proud of his success, marked by a very early appearance on the Today show in the 1960’s. He liked to boast, "I'm the most famousest in the world." "I'm easy to find. I'm in the center of the universe! You see that black mud? All you got to do is take that black mud and mix a little sugar in it. Stir it up and sweeten it, add a little water and you can paint all day." More of his art can be found at The Anton Haardt Gallery. VISIT MY EBAY STORE TO SEE MORE FOLK ART & ANTIQUES

Price: 2300 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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