American

Size: 37 x 51.    Medium:  oil on plywood
Signature:  on the train. Scene train

Jimmie Lee Sudduth:  Jimmie Lee was born in 1910 in Cains Ridge, Alabama.  He was the son of an “Indian medicine lady.”  Jimmie Lee’s earliest memories was hunting herbs with his mother in the woods and painting on a freshly cut tree stump with mud and honey.  His mother saw it as sign for him to continue to paint.  He experimented with color by using wild berries, grasses and paint rocks.  Jimmie moved to Fayette, Alabama and worked on rural farms, grinding corn meal and playing his harmonica and painting.   In 1972, he had his first public exhibition at the Fayette Art Museum organized by his long- time friend Jack Black.  Jimmie Lee also exhibited at the Birmingham, AL and was on national television show on the Today Show.  He also traveled to the Smithsonian Institution for the Bicentennial Festival of American Folk Art in 1976.  He is considered a folk-art painter.  

Jimmie Lee’s painting is of a train, on plywood and signed on the front of the train and measures 37x 51.