Jimmy Lee Sudduth (b. 1910) was born in Fayette County, Alabama. Until he moved to town in 1950, he worked as a farm hand and in lumber mills. He began painting full-time in the 1960s inspired by the ordinary world around him. Using his fingers as "brushes" mud, sand, clay and soot mixed with sugar as his "paint" and old boards as "canvas" (his later works often are done in bright house paint), he interprets local buildings, vehicles, peple and animals. He returns again and again to certain favorite themes such as "Toto" his dog, pickers in the cotton fields, Indians, and local churches. though practically illiterate, he carefully signs each picture. His work has been recognized all over the world and is included in virtually every major collection of American Folk Art. Jimmy Lee's paintings are in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. He still paints daily at ninety-four years of age.

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