On This Day In Alabama History: Jimmy Lee Sudduth Was Born Near Fayette

By Graydon Rust
Alabama 200

March 10, 1910

Outsider artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth was born in Caines Ridge, near Fayette. A self-taught artist, Sudduth is best known for creating finger paintings out of mud and other natural pigments on a variety of salvaged surfaces such as plywood boards, doors and roofing shingles. Sudduth spent almost his entire life in a modest house in Fayette, but his portraits and depictions of the rural South earned him international recognition. Sudduth won the 2005 Alabama Governor’s Arts Award and his paintings are on display in the permanent collections of the Fayette Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

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