{"id":18658,"date":"2014-08-22T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=18658"},"modified":"2014-08-22T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:18:28","slug":"apsu-folk-art-collection-gets-donation-from-karen-parr-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/22\/apsu-folk-art-collection-gets-donation-from-karen-parr-moody\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Folk Art Collection gets donation from Karen Parr-Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – While visiting Austin, Texas, in 2013, Karen Parr-Moody came across a painting by the renowned folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth. The dusty image was of a girl in a swimsuit, and it evoked strong childhood memories for Parr-Moody.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really identified with going to my grandfather\u2019s fishing camp every weekend on the Tennessee River,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s rustic and beautiful down there. The \u2018Bikini Girl\u2019 just reminded me of growing up and being a little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>

Karen Parr-Moody and her daughter, Stella, donate Jimmy Lee Sudduth\u2019s \u201cBikini Girl\u201d to Austin Peay State University. (Taylor Slifko\/APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Parr-Moody bought the painting. She\u2019s been collecting folk art since 1993, when her parents bought her one of the celebrated angel pieces by Howard Finster.<\/p>\n

The Sudduth work added another impressive name to her private collection, but earlier this month, she decided to part with the piece by donating it to Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat motivated me is when the Crouches gave that big collection to the University,\u201d she said. \u201cI thought what they did was so amazing, so I wanted to do something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, Ned and Jacqueline Crouch donated a collection of 42 folk art carvings, paintings and drawings to Austin Peay. It joined the University\u2019s already impressive folk art collection. For years, APSU has been the home of several statues by the noted self-taught Tennessee artist E.T. Wickham and paintings by William Shackelford.<\/p>\n

In 2010, the collection received a major boost when Dr. Joe Trahern donated three sculptures – \u201cThe Critter,\u201d \u201cThe Eagle\u201d and \u201cThe Lady with Two Pocketbooks\u201d \u2013 by William Edmondson, the first African-American to have a solo show of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1937.<\/p>\n

The Sudduth painting, \u201cBikini Girl,\u201d will now join that collection. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of American Folk Art in New York and at the Smithsonian Institute. A 1997 article in the New York Times referred to his art as \u201cpictures of improbable chalky luminosity and understated bliss.\u201d Susan Mitchell Crawley, the associate curator of folk art at the High Museum in Atlanta, told the New York Times in 2007 that \u201chis paintings sell for anywhere from several hundred dollars to $5,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody donated the piece to APSU in honor of her two-year-old daughter, Stella. Stella has been visiting art galleries since she was three-weeks-old, and Parr-Moody sees her gift as potentially instilling two passions in her daughter.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cHopefully it will foster a love of art, and hopefully it will make her think about giving to the community that gives to you,\u201d Parr-Moody said. \u201cAustin Peay has done a lot for me, just with the free concerts and all the shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sudduth painting also will help make APSU a destination for folk art aficionados.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt further enhances our collection,\u201d Michael Dickins, APSU gallery director, said. \u201cThe more we can collect, the more we can showcase it. Clarksville really has an excellent opportunity to become a good location for folk art.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on Parr-Moody\u2019s donation or the APSU folk art collection, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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