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Folk Art

Folk Art Article

Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.

Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit; it was never intended as a category to be art for art's sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques.

Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and for the most part, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons.

The turn of the 21st century saw an increase in work by self-taught folk artists, possibly because of the growing number of retired people with time to spend on new ventures. This 'grassroots art' movement is most visible in the states of Kansas and Wisconsin. The movement has been popularized on public television by the show Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations produced by KCPT in Kansas City, Missouri.

Other terms that overlap with folk art are naive art, popular art, outsider art, traditional art and even working class art. As you would expect, all these terms have different connotations; but they are all at times used interchangeably with the term folk art, for which a satisfactory definition has proven hard to come by.


Folk Art Items

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Gourd Fish by Frank Pickle
$39.00
1003: 20th c. American School- Owl- woodcut
$10.00
1121: Arthur W. Heintzelman- 1 drypoint and 2 etchings
$50.00
Chinese Ancient style "Diaolong penholder"
$0.99
1302: Lawrence Blazey- ''Shanty on the Lakefront''- wat
$50.00
440: American Folk Art Carved Eagle Plaque,
$600.00
1308: Herbert Caroll Cassill- ''A Sea Picture''- woodcu
$10.00
415: Two Pennsylvania Frakturs from Schuller Family,
$1100.00
1261: Douglas Stewart- ''Young Pines''- oil
$30.00
203: Miniature Watercolor on Ivory of a Gentleman,
$350.00
Charles Wysocki CHESTNUT VALLEY folk art print
$5.99
Chinese Silk Embroidery Wall Decor Bird Flower
$199.00
264: Folk Portrait of A Boy in a Blue Dress,
$700.00
1463: Willis Pryce- English Thatched Houses- oil
$50.00
1159: Guy Mac Coy- Harbor Scene with Boats- oil
$50.00
1008: Vera Andrus- Dock Scene- oil
$200.00
1106: Edith Loving Pierce Getchell- ''Overflow''- etchi
$10.00
Charles Wysocki Tin Sign Print - The Haberdashery
$5.00
Charles Wysocki Tin Sign Print - American Meat Shop
$5.00
205: Eleven Early Silhouettes,
$350.00
1172: Leo Meissner- ''Star Ridge, North Carolina''- woo
$50.00
77: Turks Knot-C. 1900-A one piece carved Turks knot wi
$300.00
1171: Leo Meissner- ''From Mountain Tops ''- wood engra
$20.00
126: Chinese Folk-C. 1900-A one piece carved and paint
$200.00
263: Portrait of Sidney Corriele Bostwick,
$850.00
1072: Adolf Dehn- ''Venezuelan Village'' - lithograph
$10.00
204: Miniature Portrait of a Gentleman Attributed to Mo
$700.00
1407: 19th c. European School- Three Figures- watercolo
$50.00
Carved Wooden Owl Folk Art Figurine Statuette Vintage
$7.99
Taj Mahal Brass & Bone Filigree Artistic Jewelry Box
$12.99
1066: Marty L. Cornelius- Still-Life with Doll, Plant a
$50.00
Chinese Crystal Hongshan--Big ShengZhiQi Totem
$16.00
Chinese Turquoise Hongshan--Big Skull Totem
$35.00
1174: Doris Meltzer- Lighthouse- silkscreen
$10.00
1383: Julian Stanczak- Untitled- silkscreen in colors
$40.00
1580: Jacques Hnizdovsky- ''Tiger Cat''- woodcut
$100.00
1305: Carl Broemel- Reclining Cow- pen and ink on paper
$20.00
Charles Wysocki Tin Sign print - INSECT PEEP SHOW
$5.00
1224: Caroline Speare Rohland- ''A Southern Family''- e
$50.00
Charles Wysocki CHRISTMAS EVE detail folk art print
$4.99
Unique Vintage Hand Carved Scupture
$75.00
206: Miniature Watercolor on Ivory of a Gentleman,
$350.00
1123: Irwin Hoffman- Puerto Rican Band- etching
$20.00
Charles Wysocki Tin Sign Print - PLUNKERTON'S PRODUCE
$5.00
397: Scrimshaw-Decorated Violin from the Ship Orion ,
$2800.00
Chinese Jade Hongshan--Big Cap With Bird Totem
$22.50
1213: Gerry Pierce- ''Rampart Street''- drypoint
$10.00
1169: James McConnell- ''Sangre y Arena''- silkscreen
$100.00
Chinese Crystal Hongshan--Rare Large Skull Totem
$45.00
1570: Sandra Freckleton- ''Ladder Chair''- silkscreen
$20.00
1347: Russell Limbach- House and Silo- lithograph
$30.00
1058: J. Chapman- Ship at Sea- oil
$50.00
Wysocki MOVING ALONG ~ COUNTRY RACE folk art print
$5.99
1381: Julian Stanczak- Untitled- silkscreen in colors o
$50.00
Charles Wysocki Tin Sign Print - THE QUILTMAKER LADY
$5.00
Wysocki Tin Sign Print - Rainy Day Coffee and Donuts
$7.00
1158: Guy Mac Coy- Harbor with Boats- oil
$50.00
1348: Martin Lindsay- portfolio of 8 lithographs
$50.00
260: Pair of American School Folk Portraits,
$1400.00
carved wooden bowl stand
$2.99
1310: Herbert Caroll Cassill- Rowboats- woodcut
$10.00
416: Pennsylvania German Cut Work Paper Valentine,
$300.00
1364: Richard Sedlon- Autumn Still-Life- oil
$50.00
1382: Julian Stanczak- Untitled- silkscreen in colors
$40.00
1054: Joseph G. Butler- ''Fred's- We Never Sleep''- oil
$100.00
1041: Isabel Bishop- ''Men and Women Walking''- etching
$50.00
395: Sandbottle with Eagle and Ship, Attributed to Andr
$2100.00
262: American School Folk Portrait of a Woman in Black
$700.00
Vintage Folk Art Wooden Key Holder
$0.99
125: Folk Snake-C. 1945-A simple but elegant diamond wi
$100.00
1150: Charles Locke- ''Tramp Steamer''- lithograph
$50.00
207: Folk Art Profile Portraits,
$2800.00
1413: after George Braque- Still-life with Fruit- silks
$10.00
Chinese Turquoise Hongshan--Apollo Totem
$23.50
1001: Late 19th c. American School- oil
$30.00
1038: Theresa Bernstein- Figures on a Bench- pen and in
$100.00
1374: Lowell Ellsworth Smith- ''A Hudson Clearing''- wa
$50.00
1002: 19th c. American School- Roses- oil
$50.00
Chinese Crystal Hongshan--Big Jar With 2 Ox Head Totem
$23.50
124: Folk Snake-C. 1890-Original speckled paint through
$100.00
Country Primitive Collectibles Stacking Shaker Box Set
$13.95
Old Painted Fishing Basket Creel, Log Cabin, Adirondack
$50.00
1048: Bernard Brussel-Smith- ''Mi Lady's Slipper''- woo
$50.00
Charles Wysocki CHURCHYARD CHRISTMAS folk art print
$5.99
BIG OLD RED TALL-CHICKEN OUTSIDER WILLARDJ FOLK ART B8
$40.00
OLD FOLK ART BLACK AMERICANA CALLING CARD RECEIVER
$9.99
1363: Richard Sedlon- Pan and Two Women- pastel
$50.00
202: Pair of Identified Miniatures by Carl Weinedel ,
$1100.00
261: Folk Art Portraits Attributed to Zedekiah Belknap
$2800.00
78: Shakespeare Commemorative-Early 20th Century-This k
$300.00
1428: George Cruikshank- watercolor and graphite on pap
$50.00
76: Chippewa Carving-C. 1850-A very nice native carving
$200.00
1307A: Kae Dorn Cass- "Nantucket Island"- watercolor
$50.00
1397: E. C. Waterman- ''Historic House''- gouache
$30.00
Charles Wysocki EVENING SLED RIDE folk art print
$5.99
1030: George Bellows- ''Portrait of Julian Broes'' - li
$200.00
Chinese Turquoise Hongshan--Tutelary With Long ShengZhi
$24.50
417: Pair of Philadelphia Portraits in Pastel,
$1100.00
Charles Wysocki BIRD PIE windowsill folk art print
$4.99
Wysocki Tin Sign Print - Boy, Puppy, Fishing & Kites
$5.00