Apartments in Red #10, Jimmie Lee Sudduth Painting

A row of apartment buildings in red with windows of green and yellow. Outside are a group of female figures bathing in light blue water. The painting is part of a series Jimmie Lee Sudduth did on apartment buildings. Please NOTE golden glitter scattered around the apartment buildings ' Jimmie Lee Sudduth was one of the early masters of southern self-taught art. He was born March 10, 1910 in Caines Ridge, Alabama, near Fayette, where he lived for most of his life. There he worked for years as a farm hand, although even from an early age Sudduth had an affinity for art. "I started drawin' when I was three years old, and I been drawin' ever since," he said. "I always use mud. That's right. And charcoal out of the fireplace. My mama was a medicine doctor, you know. She'd go out and get stuff outdoors, and I'd be drawing on a tree with the charcoal and mud." True to his word, Sudduth painted with whatever materials he happened to have on hand. He would use grasses, berries, and even soot fo