Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Rogers, Sulton |
Notes |
Sulton Rogers was born in May 1922, in Oxford, Mississippi. He learned carpentry from his father as a child. Rogers married at 19 and fathered thirteen children. Later Rogers left Mississippi to seek employment in New York, where he settled alone in Syracuse to work for a chemical plant. Quickly discovering that he needed something to keep him awake during night shifts at the plant, Rogers took up his old childhood hobby of carving animals and figures. He was reunited with his family in Mississippi in 1984, after retiring from his career at the plant. Widely collected, Rogers’ work is held by institutions such as the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore MD; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS; African American Art Museum, Dallas TX; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown NY; and the Asheville Art Museum, in North Carolina, among others. He has also been featured in exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Georgia Museum of Art. |
Nationality |
American |
Occupation |
Chemical plant employee (Allied Chemical), wood carver, and carpenter |
