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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.


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1049: Three early bowling balls, together with 10 pins.
$50.00
1401: Oil on canvas portrait of a woman, 19th c., 18''
$75.00
BRIGHTLY PAINTED FOLKART CROSS
$25.00
66: Important folk art cane, A.P. Dean,
$12000.00
CHARMING 19th CENT SMALL OIL PORTRAIT OF 2 YOUNG GIRLS
$9.99
387: R.A. Miller painting
$400.00
774: Painted blanket chest, 19th c., 23 1/2'' h., 39 1/
$200.00
OLD AMERICAN FOLK ART PAINTED AND DECORATED BOX
$9.99
1406: Three Reading, Pennsylvania printed fraktur.
$50.00
1004: LOT OF 2 SMALL TRAMP ART FRAMES; ROUND FRAME IS 1
$20.00
400: Carved folk art owl,
$100.00
1268: M.A. Honeywell silhouette, mid 19th c., inscribed
$100.00
Early/Old Wooden. Treen Container, Spoon Holder, Vase
$9.99
1269: Two silhouettes, early 19th c., one of a woman wi
$100.00
EARLY 1900s SWEDISH SMALL FOLDOUT DESK SOFT BLUE BEAUTY
$9.99
646141: ARTIST UNKNOWN (EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY) STILL
$150.00
772: Pennsylvania painted blanket chest, 19th c., 22 1
$150.00
942: Carved and painted folk art whimsy, 8'' h.
$25.00
1920's ORIGINAL OIL-BEAUTIFUL PINTO WITH RIDER
$225.00
2 Old Signed Original Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
$9.99
641018: EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GEORGE III SETTEE.
$300.00
195: Pair folk art reverse-painted glass
$250.00
Old Sngd Outside Folk Art Charcoal Paintings Drawings
$9.99
Painting Lepe Original
$900.00
Orig Old Black Americana Outsider Folk Art Drawings
$9.99
Superior Acid original 1967 poster Moon, head shop
$124.99
Pr Sgnd Carved Miniature Folk Art Flying Canadian Geese
$9.99
Florida Highwaymen S. Newton Oil on Upson Painting 1991
$850.00
642286: NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH SILHOUETTE.
$25.00
762: Carved tulip fence section, early 20th c., 38 1/2
$100.00
Howard Finster "Consider the Ant" #4291 1985 signed
$2500.00
263: Two carved wood folk art walking canes (2pcs)
$150.00
Two Big Old Wooden Indian Juggling Pins/Clubs, Patina!!
$9.99
EXCEPTIONAL EARLY 19c SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT CHILD &FLOWER
$9.99
646142: ARTIST UNKNOWN (EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY) FEMALE
$150.00
641078: NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN CARVED OAK BOOKCASE.
$400.00
Vintage Homespun/Handsewn Woman's "Pocket" - MINT!
$45.00
RICHARD BURNSIDE Ancient King Painting On Cardboard
$86.95
713: M.L. Haines, early 20th c., watercolor coastal sc
$15.00
1209: Oil on canvas portrait of a woman, 19th c., 30 1/
$100.00
T.Newton-Son of Highwaymen Sam Newton 24x36
$1250.00
646054: ARTIST UNKNOWN (TWENTIETH-CENTURY) FEMALE DANCE
$50.00
1152: Painted dome lid box, 19th c., 22'' h., 39'' w.
$100.00
1237: Five pcs. of woodenware, late 19th/early 20th c.,
$25.00
OLD ADVERTISING SILHOUETTE PICTURE & THERMOMETER~WORKS
$24.99
646020: OTTO EICHINGER (1878-1949) PORTRAIT OF A MAN HO
$200.00
1453: Three doll's chairs, late 19th/early 20th c., tal
$100.00
1250: Folk art house, late 19th c., having 2 human figu
$100.00
727: Grain painted blanket chest, 19th c., 23 1/2'' h.,
$100.00
Western Legacy - five original drawings + lithograph
$1000.00
Master Wood Block Art, Joseph Domjan,"Red Shepherd"
$3999.99
Rare Antique African-American Southern Stoneware Bank
$9.00
1270: Three silhouettes, 19th c., to include one full l
$100.00
244: UNUSUAL FOLK CARVED TEAKWOOD HOUSE WRAP PORCH
$300.00
1251: Carved wooden flywheel, early 20th c., resting on
$25.00
327: American School miniature portrait,
$150.00
267: Collection of canes and shooting stick (6pcs)
$100.00
1407: Watercolor floral drawing, 19th c., 13 1/2'' x 9
$25.00
1249: Folk art house, late 19th c., having 2 human figu
$100.00