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