Folk Art Sultan Rogers Clementine Hunter Jimmy Lee

Folk Art Sultan Rogers, Clementine Hunter, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Toliver

Sultan Rogers (1922– April 5, 2003) • Mississippi folk artist • He was taught wood carving by his father when he was 13. • Spent most of his adult life in Syracuse, NY • Retired and moved to Oxford, MS in 1995 • Primarily carved humans and animals with oversized features

Cat Couple Stooped Man with Cane

Clementine (Clem∙en∙teen) Hunter 1887 – January 1, 1988 • Self-taught artist from Louisiana • Worked as a farm hand • Never learned to read or write • Granddaughter of a slave • Her paintings focused on plantation life, picking cotton, picking pecans, washing clothes, baptisms, and funerals • She painted on anything – even discarded items such as window shades, jugs, bottles, cardboard boxes.

Black Jesus Baptism on Cane River

Jimmy Lee Sudduth ((March 10, 1910 - September 2, 2007) • Raised near Fayette, Alabama • He used his fingers because “they never wore out” • Usually painted on plywood, doors and boards from demolished buildings • Self-taught • Subject matter was people, architecture, farm scenes, machinery, flowers, animals, religious figures such as Jesus and John the Baptist • Frequently used house paint

Rooster Big Gator New York City

Mose Tolliver (July 4, ca. 1920 – October 30, 2006) • One of 12 children, raised near Montgomery, Alabama • Disabled self-taught folk artist • Probably dyslexic • Signed his work, "Mose T" with a backward "s“ • Painted whimsical pictures of animals, humans, and flora • Painted self-portraits with crutches • Watermelons and birds were familiar themes

Watermelon George Washington

Bill Hemmerling Kalle' Siekkinen New Orleans

Billy Moore Memphis