Untitled (Bust of Smiling Woman)

Jimmy Lee Sudduth

1986

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Country Store with Gasoline Pumps, Emelle, Alabama, 1974, William Christenberry, chromogenic print
Flag depicts woman in red dress and green headwrap, holding a bottle and a knife beside a fire with a kettle holding a human head. She represents a sorceress called "caplata" (males called "bokor"). A hand holding an implement reaches down from the top of the flag toward the woman. The words San Pitie (without mercy) run across the top of the image, just in side the border, which consists of diamonds, triangles, half-circles and S-shapes.
The image of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park covered in snow and surrounded by clouds, one strip of cloud extends across the Dome’s face at a diagonal, rising from left to right, a ridge extending up to the Dome extends from the right edge, and pine trees dominate the lower part of the image.
Polychrome (blue, red, and green) in abstract form apllied to center of paper