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Style: Folk Art
"THE BANKS" PREMEIR BLACK FOLK ARTIST JOHNNY BANKS DIED 1988
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 13.5 x 11.75 Frame Size: 19.5 x 17.75 Medium: Mixed Media Dated 1986 "The Banks" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opin...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Color Pencil, Mixed Media

Original 1949 Painted Ceramic Tile Flowers Hand Painting Grandma Moses Folk Art
By Grandma Moses
Located in Surfside, FL
Dogwood Blossoms. 1949. Dimensions: Tile 6 X 6 Frame 7.75 X 7.75 inches. Provenance: The tile was in the possession of the Beers family and is from the estate. Catalogue raisonné number at Galerie St Etienne: Kallir T #87 An exceedingly rare, authenticated, and hand painted floral decorated tile by Grandma Moses herself, fired by Helen Beers. Tile dated 1949 and signed moses recto as well as 'Moses Fired by Helen C. Beers, painted by Grandma Moses, Pinewold Pottery'. There are only a handful of these known to exist, approximately five, this being one of those five, outside the private collection of Galerie St. Etienne, Manhattan NY. This listing is for the tile only. The photo archive, from the family, will be listed separately and is included here just for provenance and reference. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860 – 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis. In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: "The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring ... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild." Moses's work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards. In 2006, her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1.36 million, setting an auction record for the artist. Her work is fundamental for any Naive art or Americana collection. She was known as either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses", and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses", the press dubbed her "Grandma Moses", and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918 she used house paint to decorate a fireboard. Beginning in 1932, Moses used yarn to embroider pictures for friends and family. She created quilt objects, a form of "hobby art". Lucy R. Lippard stated in "The Word in Their Hands" that she found "hobby art" to be "an activity so 'low' on the art lists that it still ranks way below 'folk art'". She found that hobby art often involves reuse of otherwise discarded objects. Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles. Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life. During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, saw paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings...
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1940s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Ceramic, Paint

Latin American Folk Art Family Portrait Colombian Naive Painting, Color Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Folk art, Naive, Latin American art , Family portrait in the style of a Chinese ancestor portrait. Maria Teresa Vieco is a Colombian artist born in 1953 in Bogota. She studied at th...
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1970s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil

MORNING BREAKFAST Mixed Media Collage, Abstract Black Family Collage with Paint
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING BREAKFAST is an original mixed media collage on board by Brooklyn artist Karl A. McIntosh. MORNING BREAKFAST is a somewhat amusing, colorful abstract portrait portraying a black family seated together having breakfast. McIntosh shows his inventive use of collage using cut bits of colored paper in shades of red, brown, blue, pink, black. Visible are magazine print clippings for facial details, dishes, lettering layered with wildly expressive yellow, blue, green and white painted accents that create an energetic and rambunctious breakfast table scene. The viewer can't help but continue gazing at the frenzied movement and visual chatter going on in MORNING BREAKFAST, a captivating and irresistible painted collage by Karl A. McIntosh. Framed size - 27.25 in. x 33.5 in. Image size - 221.25 in. x 27.5 in. Excellent condition, archival framing, beveled cherry wood colored frame with green and gold liner, hand signed by the artist "K.A.McIntosh" on upper left edge. About the artist: Karl A. McIntosh is a self taught artist who works is pastel, watercolor, acrylic, stone, wood and metal and is a known for his imaginative transformation of found objects into works of art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, McIntosh moved to the United States at an early age and later took up art. Among his mentors are artist Otto Neals with whom he worked at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Working Workshop and artist Marian Griffin. McIntosh is also a poet, drummer and dancer who draws his creative inspiration and expression from his study of African art and culture. McIntosh’s bold, bright colors dance off the page and tantalize the senses. His work is profound in its statement and deliciously whimsical. His work is an honest portrayal of everyday life and the people who live it but on occasion, takes on public figures and world events most often employing satire as thick as the layers of paint or paper he uses to depict them. McIntosh’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues across the country including Dorsey’s Art Gallery, The Skylight Gallery, MOCADA (The Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art), 843 Studio Gallery, The National Black Fine Art...
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1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paint, Paper, Glue, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board, Pencil

Americana 1848 pokerwork pyrography panel Prophet or Gospel writer Pennsylvania
Located in Norwich, GB
a wonderful antique pokerwork/pyrography panel by I W Wells, an American artist who flourished between 1845 - 1880. He was active in Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, yet most of his work is conserved in the Pinto Collection, which is part of the Birmingham Museums Trust in the UK. A portrait of Tennyson by Wells is in the Virginia State...
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1840s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood Panel, Etching

'Bound for the Promised Land' - quilt - Negro Spiritual - figurative textile
Located in Atlanta, GA
Columbia, South Carolina-based artist, Wendell George Brown creates quilts that explore the traditions of African American quilt-making and Negro Spirit...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

Dove of Peace Limoges plate Benn Rabinowicz Avant Garde French Jewish Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed in the plate Benn, born Bencjon Rabinowicz, (1905–1989) was a painter associated with the School of Paris, Ecole de Paris His early work was mostly figurative; much of his lat...
Category

1960s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

UNTITLED (COLLAGE OF PAINTINGS)
Located in Aventura, FL
Collage of paintings on paper mounted on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Knots (blown glass found object climbing rope wall sculpture Chihuly)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
This piece weaves climbing rope in with glass knots. Each piece is unique and slightly different. The cord is retired climbing rope, given another use by shining in this piece. Rob...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Blown Glass

Wedding Chest of Corinne de Blaru, French 19th Century Folk Art Painted
Located in Cotignac, FR
Vintage French folk art, Early 19th century, painted wood wedding, hope or bridal chest, for the wedding of Charles Herbert Frederic and Corinne de Blaru in 1848. The names and dates...
Category

Early 19th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Iron

Mitote Folklórico - Inlay Nacre Frame - Mexican Folk Art- Cactus Fine Art
By Marcelino Eduardo Sanchez Rodriguez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
MASTERPIECE Masterpiece made of Inlay Nacre glued with vegetal glue over the wood and painting with tints and oils. LISTING =================================== 1 Inlay Nacre Frame ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Other Medium

Solitary (original mixed media on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 7.5 inch paper mounted on 14 x 11 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches. Artwork is in excellent condit...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

'The Joyous Farewell into the Future' - quilt - Negro Spirituals - figures
Located in Atlanta, GA
Columbia, South Carolina-based artist, Wendell George Brown creates quilts that explore the traditions of African American quilt-making and Negro Spirit...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

The Kiss
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel

The Kiss
The Kiss
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City Rhythms (framed original mixed media collage)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media collage on paper. Unsigned. Paper size: 13.5 x 10.25 inches. Frame size: 16.5 x 13.5 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity i...
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1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Blue Knots (Aqua blown glass found object climbing rope wall sculpture Chihuly)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
This piece weaves climbing rope in with glass knots. Each piece is unique and slightly different. The cord is retired climbing rope, given another use by shining in this piece. Rob...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Cord, Blown Glass

Band, Mixed Media by Joyce Roybal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Band Joyce Roybal, (1955) Date: circa 1980 Oil and Mixed media on Canvas, signed lower right Size: 36.5 x 24.5 in. (92.71 x 62.23 cm)
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

French Outsider Art Brut Mixed Media Zinc Assemblage Sculpture Collage Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed media assemblage sculpture/painting. Hand signed and dated recto and verso. Provenance: Galerie Alphonse Chave, bears their label verso Michel, Fernand (1913-1999) Born in 1913 in Neuviller-lès-Badonviller in the Vosges, Fernand Michel began working at the age of twelve in a Landes pottery factory. When his mother died, he went to live in Alsace with an aunt and became an art bookbinder. A lover of poetry, he bonded with Jean Vodaine, Jean Dubuffet and Alphonse Chave (Alphonse Chave was an art lover, dealer and collector. On November 15, 1947 in Vence, under the name Les Mages, he opened a contemporary art gallery which would also become a high place of art brut and unique art . The gallery took its final name - Galerie Alphonse Chave - in 1960. He exhibited Dado, Philippe Dereux, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Henri michaux, Louis Pons, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Zao Wou-ki as well as other creators.) Around 1962, he began carving zinc after finding a plaque in a landfill. From this period, he made numerous assemblies, most often of large dimensions, which he called "zinc works" where buxom bathers, Venus callipyges, nuns and holy nitouches rub shoulders. The corroded and battered material over the years, used as is, gives his works a certain harshness, however softened by more ornamental pieces. Fernand Michel lived in Montpellier. He died in 1999. His work is present in the collection of La Fabuloserie in Dicy. Publications Revue "Création Franche" N ° 16, November 1998 Catalog "Donation Claude Massé", March 1999 Catalog "Collection Création Franche - 1989-2010", September 2010 Revue "Création Franche" N ° 38, June 2013 Franche Creation, Special Issue N ° 2, April 2015 His son Patrick Michel's collection is housed in Montpellier in the Musee d’arts brut, singulier and autres. "I used to accompany my father to his exhibitions since he was exhibited every year at the Galerie Chave in Vence. I still remember that Alphonse Chave once offered me a little toy (a car!) from his shop. I therefore met the artists Philippe Dereux, Armand Avril, François Ozenda, Pascal Verbena, Louis Pons, Jean Vodaine, Henri Comby, Fred Deux and Eugène Gabritschevsky- I took the decision to create the museum in order to save (and protect) my father’s work- my father was often classified under the ‘Art Brut’ label but in fact he belonged to the ‘Singular Art’ label... The term Art Brut exists since Jean Dubuffet gave it to us in 1945, covering self-taught and marginalised artists..The terms Outsider Art and Art Brut are fine with me- I place Nek Chand before Le Facteur Cheval. I also like the Art Brut artists Augustin Lesage...
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1960s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Lion Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel
Located in Surfside, FL
This tapestry depicts a Lion, In Hebrew Mazel Aryeh (the Zodiac symbol Leo,) all handmade. woven and stitched. Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין‎) (1923–1990) was an Israeli tapest...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

Figurative Green Original Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original Mixed Media Figurative Painting by Cuban Painter Hector Frank. International acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank. Now, in his artistic p...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Large Americana Folk Art Pictorial Hooked Rug Wool Wall Hanging Tapestry
Located in Surfside, FL
"RFD Courant", hooked rug tapestry, rural community with country homes and buildings throughout rolling hills, lush green trees with three-dimensional leaves frame the scene, in the...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Wool

Messages to a Sun God, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bethan Ash is a professional quilt maker and teacher with a background in Fashion design. She has exhibited widely and her work has been bought by museums in the UK and USA, includin...
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Early 2000s Folk Art Mixed Media

Who Let the Dogs Out, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Lee Smith paints a playful pack of dogs leaping headlong, intent on the fun. Bold linework with teal highlights outlines their rich golden hues. The wh...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Dante, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A man collaged out of sheet music sings loudly in a visual stream of maps. His animal companion howls a silent tune. Artist Libby R...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Gathering (original mixed media on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Artwork size 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Frame size approx 17 x 14 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certif...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Crayon, Mixed Media, Pen

"THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST" BLACK FOLK ARTIST FROM SAN ANTONIO (1912-1988)
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11.5 x 14.5 Frame Size: 17.75 x 20.5 Medium: Mixed Media "The Head of John The Baptist" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time. The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves: John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Color Pencil, Crayon, Mixed Media

Yellow Tigre Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico
Located in Morton Grove, IL
A VERY rare Tigre (TIGER) Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Anonymous Deep Yellow Tigre Dance Mask. Early 20th C. Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Painted leather and fur. Museum-quality...
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Early 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Leather, Acrylic

The Race 3, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric

Naïve Figurative Nude Painting Lucy Boom, Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Lucy Boom is a framed naïve-style painting by Inés Silvalde, created in 2018 as part of her Influencers de Taberna series. The piece presents a red-haired, wide-eyed figure pointing ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Les Betes de la Cote D'Azur, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Combining handmade paper with old postcard ephemera, artist Libby Ramage demonstrates a modern abstract piece. She forms whimsica...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Figurative Original Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original Mixed Media Figurative Painting by Cuban Painter Hector Frank. International acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank. Now, in his artistic p...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

"PUPPY LOVE" BLACK FOLK ARTIST FROM SAN ANTONIO TEXAS (1912-1988)
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11 x 8 Frame Size: 17.5 x 14.5 Medium: Multimedia "Puppy Love" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion one of the gre...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Color Pencil

"WATERMELON TIME" Premier Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks Died 1988
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11.5 x 9.5 Frame Size: 21.75 x 15.75 Medium: Multimedia on Poster Board 1987 "Watermelon Time" Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my ...
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1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Cats and Flowers - 20th Century British Applique textile collage
Located in London, GB
Circle of Constance Howard British School, circa 1950 Cats and Flowers in a Conservatory Applique work picture Framed 60 by 50.5 cm., 23 ¾ by 20 in. (frame size 76 by 66 cm., 30 by 26 in.) Provenance: With Frost & Reed, 1950; Mrs H H Budd (?). The present work, glazed and in this original frame, was with the prominent London fine art dealers Frost and Reed in 1950 suggesting it was a work by a leading exponent of the newly fashionable and artistically acknowledged group of British textile...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric

Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts KIng David reciting Psalms, Hallelujah in Hebrew Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין‎) (1923–1990) was an Israeli tapestry wall hanging, painter and graphic artist. Kopel (Kopke') Gurwin (Gurwitz) was born and raised in Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. He spoke Yiddish at home, but simultaneously studied Hebrew at their school which was part of the Tarbut educational network. Kopel was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In the 1930s, as a teenager, Kopel helped his parents with the home finances by working in a suit workshop, there he first encountered the art of sewing. With the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of Vilna, the Jews were imprisoned in camps and ghettos. Kopel and his brother Moshe were separated from their parents and were put to work in coal mines and peat. Kopel's parents were taken to the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp where they died of typhus within a month of each other. Kopel's 12-year-old sister Chava was turned over to the Germans by a Polish family and murdered. The brothers were arrested by the Germans, but were saved thanks to the connections of Nina Gerstein, Kopel's drama teacher. They hid in an attic until they were discovered, fled and moved to Riga, where they were caught and sent to the Stutthof concentration camp where they were imprisoned until the end of the war. They were put to work maintaining and cleaning trains and took part in one of the death marches. In July 1946, Kopel and Moshe sailed to Helsingborg, Sweden, as part of operation "Folke Bernadotte", in which Sweden took in ill survivors for rehabilitation. Once he recovered, Kopel worked in a publishing house and later was appointed director of the local branch of the Halutz movement. In 1950 Kopel and Moshe made aliyah to Israel. Kopel worked as a survey for the Survey of Israel Company. In 1951, he enlisted to the Communication Corps and served as a military draftsman. There he won first prize for the design of the front cover of the Communication Corps bulletin. With his discharge from the army at 29 he started studying drawing and graphics at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Among his teachers were Isidor Ascheim, Shlomo Vitkin, Yossi Stern and Jacob Steinhardt. At the end of his first year of study, Kopel won the Reuben and Sarah Lif Excellence Award in written studies. During his studies he also won additional prizes: In 1956 he won first prize from the Lethem Foundation in California for poster design. Later the same year, Kopel won the Hermann Struck prize for his drawing on the theme of Jerusalem. In 1957 he won an additional first prize from the Lethem Foundation and second place from the printing company Ortzel for a drawing for a Jewish New Year greeting card. In 1958 he won first prize in a competition to design a poster for Tel Aviv's jubilee. Two years later he won three other awards: First and third prize for designing a poster for Israel Independence Day, celebrating 12 years of the State of Israel. Also that year Kopel won first prize for a poster to mark the 25th Zionist Congress. In 1964 he entered the Independence Day poster competition on the theme of aliyah and won first and second prize. Four years later he again entered the competition on the theme of 20 years of Israel's independence and won first prize. The poster was styled like a Holy Ark curtain with two lions and a menorah at its centre. This poster appeared on the cover of the famous book Jewish Art and Civilization, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder as well as the record Voices of 20 Years, 1948-1968, edited by Yossi Godard. In April 1971 he won first prize in the Independence Day poster competition for the fourth time. Kopel's Folk Art tapestry won the Israeli Independence Day Poster Contest in 1968 With the completion of his studies at Bezalel Kopel moved to Tel Aviv and was hired by Shmuel Grundman's graphics and design studio. Grundman took him to Europe with him to design and supervise the construction of Israeli exhibition pavilions. During his time at Grundman's he discovered the fibrous felt from which he produced most of his wall hangings. At the 1964 Levant Fair exhibition he used felt stuck onto wooden panels for the first time. The first felt wall hanging that Kopel produced was intended for the American Cultural Centre in Jerusalem and its theme was the United States Declaration of Independence. The wall hanging, which measured 2.85 X 1.85 meters, was stuck on a wooden panel. Kopel ordered rolls of felt from France and began work on wall hangings based on bible stories. He used a needle, hand sewing small even stitches with black embroidery thread which framed and highlighted every detail in the work, as well as using appliqué. The interior designer, Alufa Koljer-Elem, introduced him to Ruth Dayan who managed the shop Maskit in September 1967 he opened his first solo exhibition at the Maskit 6 gallery, in which 12 wall hangings were displayed. In light of the exhibition at Maskit 6, Meira Gera, the director of artistic activity at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, organized an additional exhibition of his works at the foundation's exhibition hall in New York City. The exhibition sparked immense press interest, and was also displayed for a few months at the New York Jewish Museum, from where it travelled throughout the United States. Followed by the exhibition at the Delson-Richter gallery in Old Jaffa, which was later also exhibited at the Jerusalem Theatre. Kopel's tapestry "The Time for Singing has Arrived" was printed on a UNICEF greeting card in 1978 and again in 1981. The Israeli Philatelic Service issued three stamps based on three of Kopel's holy ark curtains and one stamp based on an Independence Day poster he designed. Kopel's creations decorate a large number of synagogues, public buildings, hotels and private collections which were purchased in Israel and around the world. They have decorated, among others, the walls of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the VIP room at Ben Gurion Airport, the Kfar Saba theatre and the Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now artists like Israel Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, David Sharir, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Exhibitions: 1995 The Knesset Jerusalem 1988 Temple Beth Shalom Miami, Florida 1988 University of Jewish Studies Los Angeles 1987 Israel Congregation on the Northern Coast Chicago 1985 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem 1984 Tenafly New Jersey 1983 Horace Richter Gallery Old Jaffa 1974 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem 1974 Delson Richter Gallery Old Jaffa 1972 University of Jewish Studies Miami, Florida 1971 Jewish Museum New York 1970 Norman Gallery Canada 1970 Sharei Tzedek Congregation Winnipeg, Canada 1970 Gallery of the Year Los Angeles 1970 Gallery of the Year Scottsdale 1969 Gleeman Gallery Chicago 1969 Israel Congregation of the Northern Coast Chicago 1967 Maskit 6 Tel Aviv Prizes: 1971 First Independence Day poster 1971, 23 yeaes of the State of Israel 1969 Second International Tel Aviv poster...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' - quilt - Negro Spirituals - figurative textile
Located in Atlanta, GA
Columbia, South Carolina-based artist, Wendell George Brown creates quilts that explore the traditions of African American quilt-making and Negro Spirit...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

'Blind Folly' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
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...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Mother's First Cousin Returning Home to Georgia After Visiting Us for a Week
Located in Atlanta, GA
Columbia, South Carolina-based artist, Wendell George Brown creates quilts that explore the traditions of African American quilt-making and Negro Spirit...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Acrylic

Outsider wall sculpture: 'Big Brother'
Located in New York, NY
Gérard Cambon was born in 1960 in Toulouse (Fr). He has a degree in political science and is a self-taught artist. In the earlier years of his life practiced and experimented with c...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Wool Felt Craft Applique Vintage Israeli Judaica Folk Art Tapestry Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts King David playing the harp, along with a verse in Hebrew from the Psalms. all made by hand. woven and stitched. Vintage, original piece. Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גור...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

Legends and urban myths, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
urban legends are modern day fairytales, creating contemporary folklore, often with a moral sting in the tail. :: Mixed Media :: Folk Art :: This piece comes with an official certif...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Don't Cry
Located in Columbia, MO
Martha Wahlert Hand-signed and titled in pencil
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Thread, Acrylic, Screen

Hungarian Rabbi Akiba Eger 19thC Judaica Folk Art Tapestry Needlepoint Sampler
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions board backing is 2 X 18.5 board opening is 16.5 X 13 inches 19th Century framed tapestry of a Rabbi, embroidered sampler, with beaded script below. (it reads J. Eger Ober...
Category

Early 1900s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Thread, Mixed Media

Tapete Miniatura Azul y Vino / Textiles Mexican Folk Art Miniature Rug Frame
By Eustacia Antonio Mendoza
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Eustacia Antonio Mendoza MASTERPIECE: Miniature rug made with Silk and Cotton threads dyeing with anilines, broca...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Textile, Cotton, Silk

Twins (original mixed media collage)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media collage on cardboard mounted on paper. Unsigned. Artwork size 12.25 x 20.875 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 27 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Ce...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Mixed Media Outsider Art Original Photo Collage Drawing 2 Sided
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Carapic (born 1939), full name Tomislav Sava Čarapić, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork. He also does street art. A prominent Outsider Artist he was a featured artist in the American Visionary Art Museum's End is Near Exhibit. His work was also featured in the exhibition catalog. His work has been sold at Slotin Folk Art. Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army. Afterwards he was denied a college education, possibly because he was not a member of the Communist Party, illegally crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there, emigrated to the United States. In 1965, he began attending classes at the New York Art Students League, but dropped out soon afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred Academy of Beauty Culture. He was unable, however, to find steady beauty parlor employment, and worked in menial labor while attending classes in Spanish Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a problem with accreditation, he was forced to switch to classes in the field of studio art. There he experienced hallucinatory visions that explained his repeated failures to obtain a degree. In the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing more hallucinatory visions; claiming that his degree problems were caused when "the evil marriage bureau massed the troops" against his college and proceeded with "an Air force bombardment" of the school. After receiving other visitations, he began making and showing his art. Most of his art is centered on found objects, most famously computer keyboards, especially those by IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects, marked with black Sharpie markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints along the objects. His most famous exhibit in New York City is "Big Bang Theory," a doomsday warnings painted on computer keyboards and shoes and construction debris. Bears similarity to the Art Brut movement made famous by Jean Dubuffet. He was inluded in The End is Near! an exhibit which included an unprecedented group of noted thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Jay Gould to Reverend Howard Finster and Apocalypse culture expert ,Adam Parfrey, visionary artists brought together by curator, Roger Manley, for an amazing exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum, the world’s largest ever mounted on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia. The End is Near! featuredwork from the following visionary artists amongst others: William Adkins Z.B. Armstrong Bill Bruley Frank Bruno Harry Leroy Brunson Tom Carapic Pierre Carbonel Howard Finster Tim Fowler Mary Mac Franklin Victor Joseph Gatto Robert Gie Patrick Gimel Hugo Hempel Oskar Herzberg Vojislav Jakic Norbert Kox Charles Keeling Lassiter...
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20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Edgy Dawn - Jan Coutts, Wildlife, blue, African, animals, zebra, rain, silver
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Edgy Dawn by Jan Coutts. A glimpse of two Zebra in a moment as they journey through the Savannah during the wet season in Africa. The wet season for zebras is a time of migration, bi...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

10 Million Cat - Original Pop Art Animal Painting by Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene during the Art Basel Miami art fair in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Dancing Through the Koppies - Jan Coutts, Cheetah, turquoise, african, animals
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Dancing Through The Koppies by Jan Coutts. A striking creation with mixed media including gold Leaf & Cobalt Turquoise Pigment - it depicts one of Coutts's most treasured subjects to...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Shark Habitat
Located in Austin, TX
This mixed-media wall sculpture is a striking example of post-modern folk art that uses geometric abstraction to represent marine life. The piece depicts a shark in silhouette crafte...
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1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Acrylic

SIDE BY SIDE DIPTYCH (PAINTING ON METAL)
Located in Aventura, FL
Diptych of 2 original mixed media paintings on metal shelves. Each is hand signed on front by the artist. Each piece measures 36.25 x 15.5 in. Artw...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Metal

Scraps and Scribbles, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
A madcap assortment of shapes randomly applied form the root of this colourful design. Which has been inspired by my thrifty nature and love of using left over scraps of fabrics from...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Fabric

UNTITLED (PAINTING ON BOARD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Board

Serengeti Trio -Jan Coutts, Cheetah, Wildlife, Gold, African, animals, Sprinting
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Serengeti Trio by Jan Coutts. A striking creation with mixed media including gold Leaf, depicts one of Coutts's most treasured subjects to paint - the Cheetah. The fastest land anima...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Batea Ovalada Perfilada en Oro / Wood carving Lacquer Mexican Folk Art
By María Guadalupe Tapia Talavera
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Maria Guadalupe Tapia Talavera IAM 3rd. Place Category “Gold Bathed Laca” INSTITUTO DEL ARTESANO MICHOACANO LVII State Edition Award "Domingo de...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Wood, Lacquer

UNTITLED (PAINTING ON WOOD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on wood. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be cons...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Wood, Mixed Media

OVERTOWN (PAINTING ON WOOD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on wood. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....
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Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Wood, Mixed Media

"Stuck in the Membrane of Illusion" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Stuck in the Membrane of Illusion" Abstract Relief Sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This unique piece is composed...
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1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Glass, Resin

A Tale as Old as Time, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this whimsical assemblage by artist Libby Ramage, a man and his pooch attempt to court the lady and her wolf with a song of love. "Maybe it's the wine talk...

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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

European 19th Century Folk Art Painted Wooden Hope, Bridal Wedding Chest
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 19th century European folk art painted wood wedding, hope or bridal chest. A superb example of a European hope or wedding chest in remarkable condition Of characteristic dome ...
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Early 19th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

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Iron

Folk Art mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Folk Art mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, pink, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Purvis Young, Libby Ramage, Bethan Ash, and Oksana Tanasiv. Frequently made by artists working with Mixed Media, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Folk Art mixed media, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for mixed media made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $100,000, while the average work sells for $2,376.