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Style: Folk Art
A history tethered with chains and locks
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Building a memory in space, time, and mind
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The future of man
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acyrlic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pale eyed stranger observing the battle from a snowy ridge above
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil paint
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
With the grace of Gorky
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Feast and Famine
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Devil's in the details
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Workers Inspiration
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil paint
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
A total lack of wit
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cluster Fuck
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
I Don't Remember Waking Up
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and spray paint
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Burnt Bridges Broken Hearts
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and spray paint
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
The game is fixed
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and spray paint
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Wood Grain
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Work made in collaboration with artist Rob Banks
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Dog-Gods of War are Never Satisfied
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born in 1979 San Diego based artist Mike Maxwell has built a loyal following with his signature stone-blue faces, gloomy churches & beautiful windmills. Self-taught & continuously im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The bi-polar nature of every instance
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Painted with Mikes unique process distressing the paint as he layers it.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Augustin Lesage
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...
Category
1940s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dying to Live, " Mixed Media Acrylic and Charcoal drawing on Paper
Located in Houston, TX
In this Bert Long work, a stimulating and vibrant background is contrasted by an expressive charcoal rendering of a twisting tree. The tree’s lack of leaves ...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Charcoal
"What Would I Paint to Put in a Purple Frame, " Abstract Acrylic Paint on Wood
Located in Houston, TX
Bert Long’s sense of humor is apparent in this piece. This monochromatic painting features an entirely non-objective purple background, and is enclosed in wh...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"Sleepless Night, " Mixed Media City Landscape Painting on Paper
Located in Houston, TX
This intimate, yet highly energetic, artwork is a timeless example of Long’s exceptional style.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Bert Long...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
"Master (Utopia), " Charcoal drawing on Paper, Folk Art, Signed in Black Frame
Located in Houston, TX
This charcoal drawing by Bert Long Jr. features various locks, numbers, and a paintbrush constellating around Long’s trademark abstracted eye symbol. The sym...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"A Good Witch, " Acrylic and Charcoal Mixed Media Painting on Paper in Wood Frame
Located in Houston, TX
Certainly one of Bert Long’s more humorous artworks, "A Good Witch" exemplifies affection for sincerity, despite obvious levity.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic
"Other/Brotherhood, " Acrylic and Charcoal Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Houston, TX
This colorful artwork is one in a series of studies leading up to Long’s major ice sculpture installation Other in May of 2000.
Bert L. Long Jr., was self-taught artist, was born in 1940 in Texas, grew up the Houston’s historic Fifth Ward and received his formal education from UCLA. Following a career as a successful master chef, Bert Long...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic
"Vase of Afterlife, " Colorful abstract Monoprint in Black Frame
Located in Houston, TX
This large monotype print effectively portrays Bert Long’s iconic style. Furnished with his notorious abstracted eye and gestural style, this work demonstrat...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
Lady Reaching for the Sun, Oil Painting by Huong
By Huong
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Huong
Title: Lady Reaching for the Sun
Year: 1994
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Frame Size: 65 x 47 inches ; 119 x 165 cm
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Feed Me, " Mixed Media Acrylic and Charcoal Figurative Drawing on Paper
Located in Houston, TX
This work bears striking achromatic depiction of a face, contrasted by a vibrant and colorful section of watermelon. The simplicity and levity of the watermelon helps offset the emot...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Charcoal
Revelation
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raimundo de Oliveira, Brazilian (1930 - 1966)
Title: Revelation
Year: 1963
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 28.5 in. x 39.5 in. (72.39 cm x 100.33 cm)
Category
1960s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Satilite Dance
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bull on Wheels (Dancing)
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Oaxacan School oil painting by Maximino Javier from 1983. A whimsical scene of anthropomorphic figures. Framed in stained wood frame, signed in lower left corner.
Artist: Maximino Javier, Mexican (1948 - )
Title: Untitled - Bull on Wheels...
Category
1980s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poke & Ponder
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1980s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Folk Art paintings 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 paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Robert Richter, Therese James, Stephen Basso, and Purvis Young. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings 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 $180 and tops out at $125,000, while the average work sells for $2,104.
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