Untitled (Man with Beard and Red Shirt)

Jimmy Lee Sudduth

1986

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This color photograph shows the side of a three-story white house, which fills the frame of the image from the bottom edge to the top edge. At the base of the house is a red brick water table. To the left and right of the house, a bright blue sky and neighboring houses are seen.
Polychrome (green, yellow, gray, and pink) in abstract form applied to center of paper
Vertical canvas with white background towards bottom, dark gray background towards top. Covered uniformly with abstract markings in black and white derived from Ethiopic liturgical script (Ge'ez) and other alphabets, abstracted liturgical objects and abstracted visual references to African art. Moon at top of canvas. Passages of yellow, blue, green, and red paint throughout.
Tiger and Eagle, Rev. J. L. Hunter, painted wood