page_title: Jimmy Lee Sudduth
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Jimmy Lee Sudduth / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of the painting, DOG, made by the artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth, in 1986.
context_page_description: Jimmy Lee Sudduth was a prominent artist and blues musician from Fayette, Alabama.
context_section_description: Jimmy Lee Sudduth was born on March 10, 1910. He was raised on a farm at Caines Ridge, near Fayette, Alabama. He began making art as a child, surrounding the porch of his parents' house with hand-carved wooden dolls and drawing in the dirt or on tree trunks outside. As his talents became known in the community he began collecting pigments from earth, rocks plants, foodstuffs, and industrial products for use in his finger paintings. He used his fingers because "they never wore out." His numerous works were typically executed on found surfaces such as plywood, doors, and boards from demolished buildings. He experimented with mixing his pigments with various binders to make them adhere better, including syrup, sugar, soft drinks, and caulk.
caption: Dog,1986 at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
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