Purchase with general funds and funds
from friends of the Museum, 1995.64
Ulysses Davis was a barber from Savannah,
Georgia, who become one of the best-known self-
taught artists in the South. The artist
intended
this crucifix, one of his masterpieces, to inspire
spiritual feeling through its direct and powerful
style. The body was first roughed out with
a
hatchet, the face sketched with a penett and
then carved and sanded. The crown of thorns
was made from mahogany with toothpick inserts.
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