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Style: Folk Art
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits
In this scene, people are carrying baskets to the village, through dense foliage. There are...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #11 Paper Ink Indigenous E. Klassen
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Esteban Klassen in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Esteban Klassen's family in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #2 Paper Ink Indigenous Esteban Klassen
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Esteban Klassen in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Esteban Klassen's family in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil, Watercolor
Un Rassemblement - Figurative Drawing
By Milo Quam
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully provocative sketch drawing of a gathering of men and women in pencil by outsider artist Mylo Quam (American, 1941-1996). Signed lower right. Presented in giltwood frame with black mat under glass. Image size: 8.25"H x 10.50"W.
A long-time Woodstock area resident, Mylo Quam was a self-taught painter and draughtsman whose provocative figural work has been compared to Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli and Hieronymous Bosch, as well as to twentieth-century artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Quam was an avid reader who derived inspiration from such varied arenas as Shakespeare, the occult, the Bible, Eastern and Western mythology, politics, and popular culture. "I look at everything," the artist was quoted as saying in 1990. "I read the comic pages. Anything visual. There's very little I don't think is a subject for art."
Born in North Dakota, Quam studied Greek language and other classical subjects at Brandeis, Boston, and New York Universities, and worked as a translator of Greek plays while just 17 years old. After a successful career as an actor that included numerous Off-Broadway performances and a leading role in the 1968 Broadway production of Royal Hunt of the Sun, Quam turned his focus to painting.
His first one-man exhibition was at the Boatman Gallery, NYC in 1969 and was followed by twenty solo shows over the course of his career at venues including Gallery A, Flynn Gallery, CFM Gallery, Brewster Gallery, Imperial Gallery, Runyon Winchell Gallery and the Gallery of Erotic Art, all in New York City.
Quam's work was also exhibited at the John Pense Gallery in San Francisco, the Clark-Whitney Gallery in Massachusetts, the Barrett House and Desmond Weiss Galleries in Poughkeepsie, and for many years at the Ann Leonard Gallery in Woodstock.
Quam's paintings were exhibited internationally, as well, notably in a solo exhibition in Haiti-- the first by an American artist in that country. In addition, he was one of four artists to represent the United States in La Bienalle di Venezia, Italia of 1986. As a young man, Quam designed sets and/or costumes for the Actor's Playhouse in New York City, the Lucas Hovig Ballet Company, and the Opera Municipal de Marseilles, France. He also created illustrations for The Story of O...
Category
1970s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits
In this scene, people are carrying baskets to the village, through dense foliage. There are...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #11 Paper Ink Indigenous E. Klassen
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Esteban Klassen in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Esteban Klassen's family in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #2 Paper Ink Indigenous Esteban Klassen
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Esteban Klassen in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Esteban Klassen's family in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Dog portrait Memorial Drawing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Lovely Dog memorial drawing signed Sheridan
"Scarab", 1998. Color pencil on sheet of yellow paper, 8.5 x 11 inches.
Signed, titles and dated upper right.
Unframed.
Category
1990s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
'Mending', African American Woman Folk Artist, Houston, Dallas, Blues Museum Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989.
Ruth Mae McCrane taught...
Category
1980s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Mushroom Magic" - Original Folk Art Pen and Ink Illustration on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mushroom Magic" - Original Pen and Ink Illustration on Paper in the Style of Folk Art
A charming illustration by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), of a scene with three woodland animals - a fox, a bear, and a deer - cuddled up together on an armchair reading a book titled, "Mushroom Magic." A cat sleeps below the three in a basket full of yarn.
The detailed ink gives such depth and texture to the artwork with patterns, stippling, and shading. The interior of the cabin gives an old-fashioned Alpine chic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
In War All Things are Legal - Figure Ink Drawing, Outsider Art, Duck Wars Series
Located in Houston, TX
Daniel Johnston was a prolific visual artist and musician. He gained a cult following in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain wore a T-shirt with the artist’s frog illustration from his Hi, Ho...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #15 Paper Indigenous Jorge Calrema
Located in Houston, TX
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #15 Paper Indigenous Jorge Calrema
Motifs of shamanic significance are very present in the drawings of Jorge Calrema : the jabiru ( pôtsej ), ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #10 Paper Ink Indigenous E. Klassen
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Esteban Klassen in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Esteban Klassen's family in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Mining Language From the Mud of My Mind" - mixed media collage - folk art
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Noodling" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of blue and red.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of Marc Chagall, Benny Andrews, and Charles and Marga...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Mining Language From the Mud of My Mind" - mixed media collage - folk art
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Noodling" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of blue and red.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of Marc Chagall, Benny Andrews, and Charles and Marga...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
'Blind Folly' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Blind Folly" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of orange, yellow, black and green.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of M...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
'Noodling - mixed media collage - Southern art - folk art - whimsical - fish
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Noodling" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of orange, yellow, black and green.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of Marc Chagall, Benny Andrews, a...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #14 Paper Indigenous Sebastian Alvarez
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Sebastian Alvarez in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Sebastian Alvarez family in ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Debonair Man Cuts his Mustache in Front of Mirror
Located in Miami, FL
Welcome to the wonderfully delightful mind of Ludwig Bemelmans.
With a few quick lines, Bemelmans captures the essence of a subject. In this work, the artist portrays a distinguished...
Category
1950s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
outsider pastel on archival paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Sunshine, The Golden Orb, Large Contemporary Pastel and Mixed Media on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary mixed media and pastel on paper of a golden sun like orb by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. In plain contemporary oak f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
By Sita Devi
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed verso.
Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 22x30 framed under glass 26x36...
Category
1970s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Vintage English Dog Watercolor Painting Naive Folk Art Portrait Pekingese Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pekingese Dog
English Folk Art painting, circa 1930's
watercolour painting on artist paper, framed
Glass covering
framed: 9 x 11.5 inches...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Snobby Chef Big Hat - Upscale Restaurant Sophisticated Taste
Located in Miami, FL
With his hands on his hips and a look of contemplation, Bemelmans, with a few lines, captures the essence of a top Chef. This is not a portrait of a specific individual but more of a...
Category
1960s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pen
Lilac Fish, Contemporary Watercolor
Located in Brecon, Powys
A framed watercolour by Walshe. Known more for his works in other mediums this is a bit of a departure for Walshe, but still displays his unique style and concern for the environment. Lilac Fish is an intricate work showing happy little reef fish...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Jane Wooster Scott Watercolor - Cat House
Located in New York, NY
Jane Wooster Scott (American, b. 1920)
Untitled (Cat House), 20th century
Watercolor on paper
Sight size: 10 x 14 in.
Framed: 17 x 20 3/4 in.
Signed lower le...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
insomniacs, 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper.
Whimsical, imaginative , surreal, humor, folk, vivid, playful, evocative, fantasy, self taught, mentor style of Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem DeKooning, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era.This painting that depicts figures including a crowned pig, and a princess in a bed. Artist signature above bed. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 14.75 X 21.25.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Peter Grimes, Surrealist Lithograph with Paper Collage by Judith Bledsoe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Peter Grimes (Will Barnet Print with Collage). Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph with Paper Collage, Image Size: 21 x 21 inches, Size: 30 x 22 ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Spring Cleaning large female figure two smaller male figures humorous undertones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With elements of surrealism and fantasy, this is a soft pastel painting on toned archival paper. It is part of an ongoing series of work by the artist depicting humorous observations...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
The Mean Hippies (Drawing with Rattlesnake Warrior and Red Rebels) Outsider Art
By Alex O'Neal
Located in Surfside, FL
Paper measures 21 X 33 inches
Born and raised in Mississippi, Alex O'Neal graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the Eighties, his formal education overlapped regular visits with Mississippi self-taught artists, including Mary T. Smith, Luster Willis, and Son Ford Thomas. He later immersed himself in art brut collections and European art brut in Switzerland, Germany, and France. His work is also inspired by African-American self-taught outsider art. O'Neal's drawings and paintings have been shown at The Drawing Center, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; P.S.122, New York; Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Centre d’Art des Pénitents Noirs, Aubagne, France; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Chicago Cultural Center; Ecomuseu, Valls d'Aneu, Spain; Amory Arts Center, West Palm Beach; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; ART LA; Field Projects, New York; LOG at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago. His work is in volumes 16, 38, and 104 of New American Paintings. His paintings and drawings idiosyncratically depict circumstances that associate Americans, i.e. dysfunction, nature worship, cults, homegrown terrorism, Hollywood, reverence for Native America. There is formal influence from stylization found in Romanesque fresco, early American portrait painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. This framed painting depicts figures, a rooster and angels in flying above. Artist signature on farm gate. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 15 X 21.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman with a child and is hand-painted in a palette of red, blue, and purple. Belonging to a genre known as 'beauties and babies,' the painting represents a harmonious family life. The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Bread and Cabbage Nude food and seated nude female figure warm earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom right corner. One of many pastel nudes by the artist who has done extensive work in the medium in addition to his o...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
The Great Duel 18th Century
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A truly rare and remarkable scene of hundreds of swordsmen meeting in a towns square. The circle is closed around the two in the duel, each of whom have drawn blood. German school 18...
Category
1750s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pillow Fight, colorful humorous nude women
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
outsider pastel on archival paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now"
Ralph Fasanella (1914-_1997) "Victory and After,” gouache on paper. Signed, titled...
Category
1940s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Fiesta en Xalitla / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE!
Artisan: Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper.
- Dimensions: 28" x 20" x 2" in or 72 x 51 x 4 cm
- ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Watercolor
Figures and Birds Indian Mithila Folk Art
By Sita Devi
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Figures and Birds Watercolor
Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed.
Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 17.7x22.7 framed under glass 24x29.
Sita Devi (1914–2005) was an Indian artist, specializing in painting in the Madhubani tradition. She is one of the most well-known Madhubani artists from India...
Category
1960s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Festividades Virgen de Guadalupe / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE!
Artisan: Alejandro Diaz Nava
Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper.
- Dimensions: 28" x 37" x 2" in or 72 x 93 x 4 cm
- Weigh...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Watercolor
small woman on a big chair, figurative, colorful, botero-like, pastel, paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
Category
1980s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Scene Fourteen: Kitchen, bright colors, domestic, Latin objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats).
Artwork 58" x 38"
Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10]
Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand.
The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel.
Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12]
She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...
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2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
A Brooklyn native, much of Basso's wildly imaginative artwork was inspired by travel to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and especiall...
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2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Wintry Landscape, Landscapes Watercolor by Ari Gradus
By Ari Gradus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Wintry Landscape, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor, signed, Size: 15 in. x 20 in. (38.1 cm x 50.8 cm), Frame Size: 2...
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1970s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Noodling - mixed media collage - Southern art - folk art - whimsical - fish
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Noodling" is a narrative and figurative mixed media work featuring hues of orange, yellow, black and green.
Blair Hobbs is inspired by the works of Marc Chagall, Benny Andrews, a...
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2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Andes Mountains Peru South America, " Joseph Yoakum, Black Folk Art Landscape
By Joseph Yoakum
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Yoakum
Andes Mountains Peru So America, circa 1960s
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper
7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, South Dakota
Yoakum began drawing in the early 1960s. Most of his work consists of radiantly colored landscapes with mountains, water, trees, and winding roads in abstract and complex configurations. his period of greatest activity — 1965 to 1970 — when he usually made one drawing a day.
Yoakum maintained he had seen all the places represented in his drawings, a statement that may not be true in some instances. He traveled a great deal, beginning in his early teens when he ran away from home and became a circus handyman. Yoakum’s drawings can be considered memory images growing out of either actual or imagined experiences. All of his drawings have titles that grew longer and more specific over the years. He dated his works with a rubber stamp — an oddly impersonal, labor-saving device.
Although Joseph Yoakum gave vastly different accounts of his background, he was, throughout his life, classified as an African American. Sometimes Yoakum claimed that he was a full-blooded “Nava-joe” Indian, one of twelve or thirteen children born to a farmer on an Indian reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. At other times he insisted that he was of African-American descent. He described his mother as a strong woman who was a doctor and knowledgeable in the use of herbal medicines. Yoakum’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, during his early childhood. His father was employed briefly in the railroad yards prior to settling permanently on a farm in nearby Walnut Grove...
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1960s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
Cozy Kitchen with Cats
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed depiction of a country kitchen by Alice Shaw (American, b. 1943). Full of details and vibrancy, this piece shows a vintage kitchen with a 19...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Hand VI Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing tree tattoo write
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Family, Signed Watercolor and Ink on Paper Folk Art by Jovan Obican
By Jovan Obican
Located in Long Island City, NY
Family
Jovan Obican
French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986)
Date: circa 1980
Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 13 in. (40.64 x 33.02 cm)
Frame Size: 24.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
1980s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village by Manuel Remigio S.
In this scene, people are working in a village. Interspersed throughout th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Fish & Underwater Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum st...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The children of fire Haude Bernabé 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, entitled and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Figure. Chalk on Card.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of a human figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is unsigned but was acquired along with ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Cardboard
Gravesend urban kitchen interior brooklyn subject elderly female subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned paper mounted on acid free archival board protected in clear bag sleeve. overall size measures 40 x 32 in. permanent framing is recommen...
Category
2010s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Sports Basketball Arena Coca Cola Sign
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
''Basketball'', 1988, gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right, titled in pencil on paper verso
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Celebration (large original painting on wood)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on wood. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
Un Hombre Primitivo
By Francisco Franklin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Un Hombre Primitivo
Francisco Franklin
Color pencil on paper
1987
Hand signed "Francisco, 1987" in pencil.
18 inches H. X 24 inches W., 24.25 inches H. x 29.75 inches W. in artist's hand carved frame.
A wonderful mid career example of this artist's work.
This work is in excellent original condition, the paper is crisp and the colors rich. The artist's hand carved and hand painted frame appears with a couple dings.
Frank Francisco Franklin is an American artist whose roots are strongly linked with those of the Mexican people...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Virgin and Child, Saint Anne and St John the Baptist after Leonardo da Vinci
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pencil, chalk and crayon drawing of the Virgin and Child with St Anne inspired by the 'cartoon' of Leonard da Vinci currently held in the National Gallery London.
An elegant and c...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Pencil, Paper
Birds & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Birds & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Butterfly & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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