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Jimmy Lee Sudduth

Folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth died on Sunday, September 2nd at the age of 97.

His obituary appeared in

The New York Times yesterday. He was living in a nursing home in Fayette, Alabama when he died.

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Sudduth lived in Fayette his whole life, and began drawing and painting when he was a young boy.

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