Remarkable collection of eighteen salvaged tin panels from the Dixie Art Colony (DAC) studio at Nobles Ferry, Elmore County, Alabama, featuring graffiti-style paintings executed by colony artists in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In a spirited tradition unique to the colony, each visiting artist was required to paint a composition directly onto a square as a record of their participation — resulting in a vivid, informal, and highly personal visual diary of the colony's creative life. The panels feature portraits, figural scenes, animals, landscapes, humorous inscriptions, and folk imagery rendered in oil and house paint directly on the tin, many signed and/or dated by their respective artists. The colony site at Nobles Ferry, known as "Poka Hutchi" (Creek for "gathering of picture writers"), was located on six acres of forested land on Lake Jordan owned by Judge Malcolm Carmichael and his wife Sallie Boyd Carmichael, the colony's primary financial backer. The Dixie Art Colony (1933–1942) was founded by Kelly Fitzpatrick in central Alabama and is regarded as one of the most important art colonies in the American South. Colony members were instrumental in founding the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Mississippi Museum of Art, among other institutions. Accompanied by the Elmore County Living magazine article documenting the panels' rediscovery and rescue from the original studio site. Identified Artists and Panels: Karl Ferdinand Wolfe (signed "KW") Mildred Nungester Wolfe (signed "Nun" and "Gester") Arthur Walter Stewart (self-portrait, dated Aug 2, 1937) Margaret Ellen Coe Cairnes (nude figure, signed "COE") Heloise Oviatt Hawkins (signed "Heloise") Warree Carmichael LeBron (signed "Wardee LeBron") Sallie Boyd Carmichael (signed "Sally") Amanda Moon Erisman Carlos Alpha "Shiney" Moon (signed "Shiney") Origin: Nobles Ferry / "Poka Hutchi" Studio, Elmore County, Alabama Date: c. 1937–1942 Dimensions: Each panel approx. 108 x 24 in. (9 ft. x 2 ft.); 18 panels total Condition: As found. Significant age-related wear, oxidation, paint loss, and surface corrosion consistent with decades of outdoor storage following the colony's disbandment. Many compositions remain clearly legible; others faded. Sold as-is.

Provenance: Dixie Art Colony Studio, Nobles Ferry, Alabama; rescued by Chrys and Robert Bowden