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Style: Folk Art
Traces II
Located in Phoenix, AZ
smoke from an open flame accumulated in encaustic beeswax on panel b. 1975 My work explores the idea that dualities—light and darkness, life and dea...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Panel, Wood Panel

Dog
Located in New Orleans, LA
Starsky Brines’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic

"Bridge Loan (Basketcase)" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
"Bridge Loan (Basketcase)" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This composition is a surreal and satirical take on fin...
Category

1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Glue, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

"Double Entendre (TwoFaceNote)" Satirical Currency Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
"Double Entendre (TwoFaceNote)" Satirical Currency Collage Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This piece is a satirical mixed media artwork that mimic...
Category

1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Glue, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

"Extrication Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
"Extrication Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This piece is a visually striking satirical artwork that masque...
Category

1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Glue, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Forest Green Figurative Mixed Media Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Mixed Media Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost livi...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

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...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

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...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric

JIVE TALKING
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, 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

Group zombie Barbara d'Antuono 21st Century art textile art haiti outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Embroidered textile painting Unique work, hand-signed by the artist Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron Samedi...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Textile

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

Lady In Love
Located in Chattahoochee Hills, GA
Born October 12, 1951 Jefferson County, Alabama Charlie Lucas exhibited overflowing creative and mechanical ability since he was a young child. When he ...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wire

Celebration (large original painting on wood)
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 Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Wood

"Blue Series" by Steven H. Rehfeld - Blue Mixed Media Abstract Outsider Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Blue Series" 2008-2009 Oil Paint, Ink, Paper, Tape, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars, Wire The artist signed the back of the painting. "B...
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wire

'Noodling - mixed media collage - Southern art - folk art - whimsical - fish
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 Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

FERTILITY IV (PAINTING ON WOOD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificate of Aut...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Pig
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide. Sewell was born in Anna...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Found Objects

Oddities Banana - Original Outsider Food Artwork on Newspaper 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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

THE TOWER (PAINTING ON WOOD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media painting on wood. The artwork is in excellent condition and comes with a Certificate of Aut...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

'The Tapestry of Consciousness' by Rehfeld - Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) 'Quantum Identities: The Tapestry of Consciousness' 2022 Oil paint, Tissue paper, Newsprint, Ripped canvas, Wood The artist signed the back of...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Newsprint, Tissue Paper

Escudo Guerrero del Emperador Ahuizotl Mexican Folk Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE Artisan: Jessica Yazmin Fuerte Alejo FONART Rescue National Award  FONART 2nd. Edition National Award "Grandes Maestros del Patrimonio Artesanal 2015" C...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Other Medium

Platon Blanco Semana Santa / Wood carving Lacquer Mexican Folk Art
By Hector Martínez Rivera
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE Artisan: Hector Martinez Rivera IAM 1st. Place Category “Gold Bathed Laca” INSTITUTO DEL ARTESANO MICHOACANO LVII State Edition Award "Domingo de Ramos en...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Figurative Mixed Media Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Mixed Media Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost livi...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a Crab, In Hebrew Mazel Sartan (the Zodiac symbol Cancer, June-July) all made by hand. woven and stitched. 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...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

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...
Category

1960s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

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 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...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wool, Felt

Rare Judaica Jewish Folk Art Sukkot Papercut Jerusalem Mizrach Archie Granot
By Archie Granot
Located in Surfside, FL
Jewish paper cutting is a traditional form of Jewish folk art made by cutting figures and sentences in paper or parchment. It is connected with various customs and ceremonies, and associated with holidays and family life. Paper cuts often decorated ketubbot (marriage contracts), Mizrahs, and ornaments for festive occasions. Paper cutting was practiced by Jewish communities in both Eastern Europe and North Africa and the Middle East for centuries and has seen a revival in modern times in Israel and elsewhere. Born in London, England in 1946, Archie Granot moved to Israel in 1967. Prior to settling in Jerusalem in 1978, he was a member of an agricultural community where he milked cows and grew melons. He has a M.Phil in Russian Studies from the University of Glasgow, Scotland and a B.A. in Political Science and Russian Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Archie Granot is a paper cut artist based in Israel. He works in traditional Jewish art, including ketubahs (ketubot), mizrachs, mezuzahs, haggadah and blessings for the Jewish life cycle, etc. Granot uses a scalpel to produce his papercut works, rather than the scissors which are more common with other artists. Granot's use of Hebrew inscriptions, handcut in calligraphic letters in his Jewish papercuts...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

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

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

Figurative Mixed Media Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Mixed Media Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost livi...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Sylvesters Head in The Clouds
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Sylvesters Head in The Clouds Materials : stamps, ink, crayon,marker,pen Date : 2017 Dimensions : 8.5x11"
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Large Americana Folk Art Pictorial Hooked Rug Wool Wall Hanging Tapestry
Located in Surfside, FL
"Downtown Hartford" Hooked rug tapestry, various landmark buildings in Hartford, Connecticut, congregate within composition, including capital building, Colt building, Wadsworth Mus...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Wool

Swingin Hammer (blown glass nail tool table top found object sculpture Chihuly)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A piece capturing the movement we all know from working with hammers. This piece is created with found objects and blown glass to capture this moment in time. The hammers and nails vary from piece to piece but the movement is always the same. Robert Burch began working with glass in Atlanta, Georgia while still in high school. After graduating, he worked for the Japanese glassblower, Tadashi Torii for two years. Shortly after, he attended Pilchuck Glass School before deciding to make the jump to the mecca of glass working, Seattle, Washington. It was there that Burch had the honor of working with the renown American glass artist, Martin Blank. In the span of five years, Burch learned many aspects of glass artistry as he worked for Blank. Subsequently, the team collaborated on color design teams for the glass empire company Chihuly Inc. During all these glass adventures, he never stopped shooting photos...
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2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Blown Glass

My Daydreams, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage daydreams under the shade of an old sycamore tree. In this mixed-media piece, she combines the images in her imaginative musings—a beaut...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Bad Bunny, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this piece, artist Libby Ramage utilizes torn wine labels to define the two figures and their clothing. "A mother is scolding her child for the pile of torn paper at her feet while a guilty bunny in the lower right corner sneaks away," Libby explains of this playful collage.


About the Artist
Libby Ramage infuses a playful and whimsical mood into her works. In fact, she credits the children she works with for greatly influencing her aesthetic. She often uses children’s abandoned work in her collages. Libby currently lives in New Jersey and finds inspiration in the work of Rauschenberg. She believes collectors should buy from the heart.


Words that describe this painting: wine labels, bunny, mother, child, figurative, family, folk art, people, representational, primitive, mixed media artwork, beige


Bad Bunny...

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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Native Bird by Louis Carreon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Carreon b. 1977 American Native Bird Signed “Louis Carreon” (lower right) Mixed media on canvas Louis Carreon’s Native Bird emerges from his broader exploration of shamanic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

"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

"THANKSGIVING" Black Folk Art! Premier Black Texas Artist Johnny Banks Died 1988
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 10.5 x 17 Frame Size: 20.5 x 16.5 Medium: Mixed Media on poster board Dated 1987 "Thanksgiving" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Color Pencil, Ink, Mixed Media

Abstract Red Blue Folk Art Americana Flag Can Tapestry Quilt Ross Palmer Beecher
Located in Surfside, FL
Ross Palmer Beecher (born 1957) Hand signed in sharpie on the verso. Dimensions: 19.5"w x 17"h. A unique contemporary found object assemblage tap...
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1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

"Saying Our Prayers" Contemporary Mixed Media on Paper Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
I’m sure many of us recall saying prayers before bedtime. Therese’s little girl is cwtched up with her dog, probably hoping she hasn’t forgotten anybody! A really sweet painting that...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Suburbia, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Art Quilt installation of 1 - 12 panels. The panels may be hung in any formation of your choice, depending on space available. This is the second in a series of work inspired by the ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric

The Older Couple, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two nude figures join hands in artist Libby Ramage's arresting primitive piece. The elderly couple braces themselves going into an uncertain future. "The firs...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Enrico Baj (1924–2003) - Adamo ed Eva - Mixed media color screenprint - 1986
Located in Varese, IT
Limited edition in 150 exemplars in cardinal numbers Current exemplar numbered as: 124/150 Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Mixed media polymaterial color screen pr...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Screen

Monica and Dash, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Lee Smith paints a golden-haired young woman walking her lively pup through a neighborhood. “Monica loves getting out in the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

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

The Race 2, 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

The Getaway, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Lee Smith presents a mischievous-looking rabbit in the act of running away. She leaves out the pursuer from the composition, allowing the viewer to create their own narrative. Bold black linework with strategically placed teal accents outlines the patterned golden hues of the charming hare. The gray background allows the subject to take center stage, enhanced with a complex system of white tick marks, which add interest and help create the feeling of action and motion.


About the Artist
Artist Lee Smith combines abstract, expressionist, and gritty contemporary art in her work. “My style is greatly influenced by years spent in CGI production and an unapologetic love for the daily comics,” says Lee. As a keen observer, she finds her inspiration in the social aspects of life. Her work represents human emotions and portrays these emotions by illustrating the animal world, often using those popular companions—cats and dogs. In her long professional career, Lee has worked as a newspaper layout artist, a visual merchandising specialist, a freelance graphic artist, a technical illustrator, and an art director. Lee retired from the corporate world ten years ago to concentrate on her art career. “Although I studied art in college, I prefer to describe myself as 'self-taught.' Years of irreplaceable hands-on experience have provided an extensive and invaluable continuing education in the arts,” says Lee. When building her current home in Oregon, she added a small studio that she keeps organized and clutter-free. She wears her trusty paint-covered denim overall when working, and typically listens to audiobooks or podcasts. “I have dozens of paintbrushes in cans all over the studio, but I have only about 10 favorites that I always use.”


Words that describe this painting: rabbit, bunny, grin, teeth, eyes, pattern, running, run, leap, leaping, animal, ears, feet, legs, jack rabbit, mixed media, playful, animals, mixed media artwork, grey


The Getaway...

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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Vibrant Original Acrylic Painting 'Rainy Day' Interior Scene with Woman Reading
Located in Denver, CO
"Rainy Day" is a captivating original acrylic painting on canvas, enhanced with dimensional wood pieces for a unique textured effect. This stunning figurative artwork, influenced by ...
Category

1980s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Lemon Drops, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jodi Dann paints an image of lemons with a contemporary approach. The zesty fruit falls throughout the composition as a literal play on the title. Jodi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Idora Ghost #11, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In 2016 I inherited an envelope of old photographs my mother had taken at a closed and soon to be demolished icon of my area, Idora Park. This old amusement p...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Prince Percent, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage takes inspiration from her seventh-grade son's algebra homework. She imposes a sheet of equations on the face of a prince's portrait. Libb...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Lacking Compassion Men are a Burden On The Earth: Contemporary Mixed Media
Located in Brecon, Powys
Oil and gold leaf on arches paper with a crackled varnish finish. Matted 18" x 14" Image 14" x 10" Signed and dated upper right
Category

1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

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

"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

Standing figure, 1992 Ballpoint Ink Drawing on an Envelope (Phone Bill)
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Baseman is a visual artist. Marc Baseman has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico.He has been exhibiting with Dickinson Roundell and Edward Nahem in New York, and Nahem has helped him find an eager audience among collectors in London and Europe. Marc Baseman has Exhibited with these artists: Larry Bell, Lynda Benglis, Vija Celmins, Ronald Davis, Wes Mills, Lee Mullican...
Category

1990s Folk Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, India Ink

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

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.

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