Description
A portrait of a Cherokee matron sharing the Green Corn harvest.
Materials
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.
Jerry Sutton
Cherokee Nation
About the Artist
Jerry Sutton is a Cherokee painter, photographer, and flute maker who views the evolving cultural history, the endangered natural heritage, and the continuing arts and traditions of the Cherokee peoples through a contemporary lens. His examination of the Cherokee woodlands, wildlife, and people range from detailed representational imagery to colorful abstract expressionism. He says, "I am always wanting to evoke emotion through color and form, always seeking the universal within the microcosm, always struggling to release the poetry that exists outside of words."
Sutton is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and studied painting at the University of Oklahoma and Northeastern Oklahoma University, earning a BA in 1976. His recent awards include 2nd place in Painting at the 2023 TOTAS, 3rd place in painting at the 2021 Trail of Tears Art Show, Grand Prize Award at the 2020 Trail of Tears Art Show, 2nd place in Mixed Media at the 2019 Cherokee Art Market, and 1st place in Musical Instruments at 2019 Artesian festival in Sulphur, Oklahoma.
