James Purdy - SOLD Jimmy Lee Sudduth Paint on wood cutout -

Paint on wood cutout - #29

This Catrina is bright and glittery

Line gives way to light where lyrical hues bleed as in the dome of a rural Alabama sky

The book is a first-hand view of Mose from the days when I chaperoned him and his wife to the Corcoran exhibit through his rise to national recognition in the folk art world

they were both artists in Montgomery

James Purdy - SOLD Jimmy Lee Sudduth Paint on wood cutout -" Woman " 1992 Vintage Signed Ink Drawing Author James Purdy's novels and stories have been translated into more than 30 languages, anthologized in text books, and have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts on Letters and the Ford Foundation grant. Like his poetry his drawings illuminate a still deeper aspect of his talent. They are spirit drawings, intensely original, archetypal, like cave drawings coming out