Burgess Dulaney Mud Sculpture! Awesome Folk Art!!! Start Price USD 150.00 Current Price USD 150.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, August 25, 2008 End Time Monday, September 01, 2008 Location Lookout Mountain, Tennessee See more about 'Burgess Dulaney Mud Sculpture! Awesome Folk Art!!!' Description This is a great piece by Burgess Dulaney. It has not been fired, but is covered in an apoxy type residue to preserve and protect it. This would make a wonderful display piece. Dimensions are approxiamately 8" wide by 9" high. E-mail me with any questions. Burgess Dulaney was born 16 December 1914 just outside Fulton, Mississippi and continued to live on the family property his entire 86 years, dying there 27 June 2001. He spent his life farming simple subsistence crops and had no formal art training, no schooling and never learned to read or write.He began to fashion clay or "mud" gathered from the local surroundings, into a seemingly unending menagerie of human busts, human-like forms, animals and fantasy creatures ranging in size from about that of a soda can to basketball size and larger. His work bears much resemblance to Pre-Columbian pottery, though Dulaney had never traveled or studied such art forms.The unfired clay figures were mostly made of solid clay throughout, although he made some vessel-like pieces which were hollow and thin walled. Many of the pieces had marbles added for eyes, and all were dried slowly outdoors or during colder times brought inside to dry near the wood stove. Dulaney attended to the pieces meticulously during the drying period to insure any cracks in the clay would be mended allowing for amazing strong bonds in the clay.The clay or "mud", as it was referred to by Dulaney, was dug from three separate pits near his home. A high concentration of iron in some of this clay, causes darkening of the clay over time, adding a great patina to the older works.He experimented briefly with cement and concrete mix, fashioning some much taller human like forms and ghostly concrete face tablets weighing 40 -50 lbs each.He began giving the sculptures to local merchants and friends around his home in the mid-late 1970's which led to the discovery of his work.This information, submitted December 2004, is from Terry Nowell, Austin, Texas art collector of self-taught art, especially the mud sculpture of Burgess Dulaney. His sources are family and personal friends of the artist. Nowell also wrote the essay October 2003 in St. Louis for the catalogue for the Retrospective showing of Dulaney's sculptures "Mississippi Mud - The Creative Life of Burgess Dulaney". ...Provided by askart.com Place a Bid!