Two (2) Mose Tolliver (Alabama, 1919-2006) folk art house paint on board paintings, one (1) titled "Big Green Fish" depicting a long green horizontal fish with a red tongue against a tan background having light blue polka dots and a black border, and one (1) depicting a watermelon on a white background with a black […]
Lot 167: Jimmy Sudduth Folk Art Painting, Woman w/ Headdress
Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) house paint and mud on board painting depicting a female figure with a feather headdress and a colorful garment rendered in shades of green, red, and white against a white background with a brown border. Signed "Jim Sudduth" in pencil upper right. Unframed. 24" H x 24" W. PROVENANCE: The […]
Lot 165: Purvis Young Large Outsider Art Mixed Media Painting, Trucks & Figures
Purvis Young (Florida, 1943-2010) large horizontal outsider art mixed media house paint on scrap or found paper painting depicting a row of semi-trucks surrounded by figures working against a loosely painted background, rendered in red, white, and black pigments. Signed "Young" in pen, right center. Float mounted under glass in a custom contemporary metallic painted […]
Lot 166: Purvis Young Outsider Art Painting, Nude Figure
Purvis Young (Florida, 1943-2010) folk art mixed media on canvasboard painting depicting a nude figure surrounded by colorful undulating lines rendered in loose brushstrokes, all in shades of brown, back, pink, and yellow. Signed "Young" in upper right corner. Excerpt on the artist adhered en verso. Unframed. 40 1/2" H x 16 1/4" W. PROVENANCE: […]
Lot 164: Large Bernice Sims Folk Art Painting, Tent Revival
Bernice Sims (Alabama/Louisiana, 1926-2014) very large acrylic on canvas outsider art painting depicting a nightime tent revival scene with African American figures circled around a central figure at a pulpit all gathered under a striped red tent under a starry sky. Signed "B. Sims" lower right. Unframed. 58 1/2" H x 72 1/2" W. Biography: […]
Lot 162: Helen LaFrance Oil Painting, "Moving Day"
Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on canvas rural landscape painting depicting an African American man steering a horse-drawn cart around a puddle on a muddy road. The crowded cart is filled with a woman and children, presumably his family, and their belongings. They are surrounded by an open field with a farm in the […]
Lot 163: Large Helen LaFrance Tiger Painting
Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on board painting depicting a crouching tiger emerging from a cropping of green palm leaves on a brown jungle floor. Signed "Helen La France" lower right. Housed in an ebonzied frame. Sight: 23 1/2" H x 47 3/4" W. Framed: 24 3/4" H x 49" W. Biography: "Self-taught African […]
Lot 161: Helen LaFrance Oil Painting, Church Picnic
Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting an African American congregation gathering for a church picnic upon the grounds before a church's open door and having automobiles scattered across the grass, a family arriving via the dirt road in a horse-drawn cart lower left, children playing a circle game lower right, […]
Lot 160: Jacob Anchutin Oil Landscape Painting, New Found Gap Looking Towards Gatlinburg, TN
Jacob Anchutin (North Carolina, 1893-1964) oil on canvas laid down on board painting titled "New Found Gap Looking Towards Gatlinburg, Tennessee," depicting a view of the Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains in early autumn. Signed "Anchutin" lower right. Handwritten label with title and artist information, en verso. Housed in a giltwood frame with […]
Lot 158: Louis Jones O/C Mountain Landscape Painting, A Winter Day In The Smokies
Louis Edward Jones (American, 1878-1958) oil on board painting titled "A Winter Day In The Smokies" depicting a mountain scene with a small cabin nestled amidst a valley with smoke rising from its chimney, surrounded by evergreen trees and late autumn foliage under a cloudy blue sky. Singed and dated "L.E. Jones 1954" lower right. […]