Garland and Minnie Adkins (Kentucky, 20th century) Folk Art green painted cabinet, having a floral design on the glass and pink and yellow paint droplets throughout. The cabinet has a hinged glass door and is adorned with twelve (12) small carved and painted animals including foxes, dogs, turkeys, and other creatures. A standing female figure […]
Lot 210: Vannoy Streeter Banjo Player & Streetcar Wire Sculptures
Two (2) Vannoy Streeter (Tennessee, 1919-1998) wire sculptures, including one (1) depicting a banjo player wearing a hat and one (1) depicting a streetcar with hinged doors and front hood, having a denim fabric roof with cutout window sewn on with white thread, and two cardboard license plates at the front and rear with handwritten […]
Lot 211: Georgia Blizzard Folk Art Pottery Vase, Jacob's Well
Georgia Blizzard (also known as Georgia Michael, Virginia, 1919-2002) folk art pottery vase titled "Jacob's Well," rectangular form, with molded bibical scenes to each side, surmounted by a short, cylindrical neck with stipple decoration. Titled and signed "G. Blizzard" to underside of base. 8 3/4" H x 13 1/2" W x 7 1/4" D. Biography: […]
Lot 207: Jim Sudduth Outsider Art Painting of a Woman
Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) mud and paint on board outsider art bust portrait of a woman in a button-down blouse, executed in shades of red, pink, and gray, with painted red border. Signed center left side. 48" H x 24" W. Provenance: private Middle Tennessee collection. CONDITION: Wood frame added to verso for hanging. […]
Lot 208: Jimmie Lee Sudduth Painting, Picking Cotton
Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) paint and mud on board outsider art painting depicting four crouching African American figures picking cotton, surmounted by a large horse, wagon and driver. Signed "Jim Sudduth" top center. Housed in a natural rough hewn wood frame. Sight: 23 1/4" H x 46 3/4" W. Framed: 26 3/4" H x […]
Lot 209: Jimmie Lee Sudduth Full Length Painting, Native American
Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) paint and mud on board outsider art full length portrait of a Native American with feathered chaps and headdress. Signed "Jim Sudduth" in pencil, across the top of the board. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight: 47" H x 23" W. Framed: 51 1/8" H x 27 1/4" W. […]
Lot 204: Monumental Helen LaFrance Double-Sided Painting: Africa & Fox Hunter
Monumental Helen La France (American/Kentucky, 1919-2020) double sided oil on canvas painting, depicting a horizontally oriented African landscape on one side and a vertically oriented Equestrian scene on the other. One side depicts a large African watering hole with various animals clustered around it, including elephants, lions, flamingos, rhinos, cheetahs, gazelles, zebras and giraffes. In […]
Lot 205: Helen LaFrance Oil on Canvas, Church Picnic
Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) large oil on canvas landscape painting depicting an African American congregation gathering for a Church Picnic, with automobiles parked in grassy areas aroung the church and a family driving a horse and buggy approaching lower left via a dirt road; a table is being prepared right mid-ground between two shade […]
Lot 206: Mary Tillman Smith, Outsider Art Painting of a Figure in Pinks/Blues
Mary Tillman Smith (American/Mississippi, 1904-1995) house paint on plywood plank painting in shades of pink and blue, depicting a figure with halo or corona, possibly the Virgin Mary. Signed en verso in marker: "Mary T. Smith". 34"H x 24"W. Circa 1970s. Provenance: Private Nashville collection; acquired mid 1980s. Biography: Mary Tillman was born into a […]
Lot 202: Helen LaFrance O/B Portrait, Possible Self Portrait
Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on board painting, possibly a self-portrait depicting the artist in her mid-80's. The subject wears a black and white floral patterned dress with her hair braided over to one side, and looks directly and serenely at her viewers. Signed lower right "Helen La France" and dated "7-2004" lower left. […]