Big+City+Skyline

Date: ca. 1988
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1997/1997.124.39_1a.jpg?itok=s09W6bti width="366" height="268"]] || Title: **Big City Skyline**

Artist: **Jimmy Lee Sudduth** Born: Caines Ridge, Alabama 1910 Died: Fayette, Alabama 2007

Medium: paint, mud, and sand on plywood Dimensions: 37 x 48 in. (94.0 x 121.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1997.124.39 || Sudduth's fertile imagination has led him to paint self-portraits, dogs, television personalities, and the architecture and landscape near his home in Fayette, Alabama, as well as views of New York and other cities. In Big City Skyline, rows of people filing across a bridge toward a crowded mass of towering skyscrapers emphasize the anonymity of life in America's large cities. Sudduth's materials—mud mixed with sugar water and color extracted from weeds and vegetables—are no less inventive than his themes. He rarely uses canvases or brushes, preferring to use his fingers to paint with clay, mud, sand, and soot on plywood.
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 * What are the similarities/differences to Steir's and Moran's artworks?
 * Does this artwork fit our definition of a landscape?
 * What is this artwork made out of?
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Landscape
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cityscape
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