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Jesus on the Cross, 1946  
Carved cedar, mahogany crown of thorns  
with toothpicks, and paint  

Ulysses Davis  
American, 1914-1990  
  
  
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
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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