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Style: Folk Art
The Devil's Mirror
Located in Washington, DC
A major work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Titled "The Devil's Mirror" and signed on reverse. The mirror in the center of the painting reflects a distorted ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mirror, Plaster, Wood
'The Family Dinner', Thanksgiving, Christmas, Festive Reunion, Large Naive Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Pauer' for Jacalyn Pauer (American, 20th century) and dated 1991. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'The Family Dinner'.
A su...
Category
1990s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jewish Folk Art Painting "Blessed is the Healer of the Sick" Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed A.H. Okun
Genre: Judaica
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 11" x 14"
Dimensions w/Frame: 15" x 19 3/4"
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset with Pygmy Owls, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman illustrates a nude portrait of a woman in the deep woods. She uses her unique combination of colors, patterns, and details, presenting a tattooed woman with flowing hair basking in the brilliant sunset light, surrounded by pygmy owls. Johansen draws fascination from the majesty of birds of prey and how they enhance the beauty of the human body. "The peacefulness of the ethereal moment is interrupted by the piercing eyes of the woman and her feathered friends," shares Johansen.
About the Artist
Artist Johansen Newman captures various characters through charming scenes that often weave nostalgia. A reflection of her fondness for edge and funk prevails in her dynamic portrayal of humans with animals and objects of their affection. As a toddler, her mother gave her crayons and allowed her to draw on the walls of her room. She pursued a degree in painting and printmaking, then furthered her education by studying with Bil Baird at his puppet theater in New York, ultimately forming her puppet troupe. Years of crafting puppets, designing scenery, writing stories, and performing shows developed her arsenal of skills—going on to be an award-winning fiber artist exhibiting throughout North America. She integrates these learnings into her current art practice. "My paintings capture fragments of a tale in a time and place that was, is, or has the promise to become," says Johansen. She works at her studio and display gallery at Gorse Mill Studios, a 19th Century textile mill building in Needham, MA. Her woodworking shop doubles as her home studio, where she constantly evolves her compositions to satisfy her aesthetic. Johansen's work has been featured on the cover of local publications, in pictorial essays, and toured museums across the United States. She was a professional and published illustrator for more than 35 years, including two dozen children's books, three of which she also wrote. Besides creating art, she finds herself an enthusiast of vintage collectibles, jukeboxes, signages, tin toys, neon lights, cookie jars, carnival chalkware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
MUSIC FOR A FRIEND
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on paper
Shipping from Belarus, Minsk.
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Outsider Art Judaica Synagogue or Tomb in Israel
By Rebecca Levy
Located in Surfside, FL
A classic example of whimsical folk art done with raw and unbridled emotion for Israel and Judaism. Done in a Naive manner with beautiful Hebrew calligraphy drawing and vintage autom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Large Naive European Folk Art Oil Painting Lazar Obican French Scarecrow Clown
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazar Obican 1944-2004
Genre: Other
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 35" x 16.5
Dimensions w/Frame: 35.5" x 17.25
An impasto composition that depicts a colorful scarecrow clown with a bird perched on his shoulder with a bottle of French Vin (wine)
Artist signature L OBICAN to bottom and dated 1968. Title to verso.
Work Size: 36 x 25 in. Framed 37.5 x 26 x 1 in
The artist Lazar Obican iconic style is child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness.
Lazar Obican artist, painter, sculpture and mosaic ceramic artisan was born in Cannes, France, to his Yugoslavian family. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, and their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a "timeless quality" and a naive, folk art, outsider art brut quality, child-like primitive style. Obican is identified with his style the world over, a style that is simple yet sophisticated; child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with psychological, philosophical or sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Best known for his depictions of folklore and traditional costumes rendered in a playful, childlike style and for his happy Jewish wedding scenes. He often used bright colors and black outlines in his renderings of figures and animals, giving his work an illustration-like quality. Thematically, the artist’s work is similar to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet for its dreamlike images and so-called naïve style of painting. Over the course of his career, the artist maintained a studio in Boca Raton, Florida and Dubrovnik, Croatia—part of former Yugoslavia— where he developed an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish culture. Many of his mature works depict Jewish traditions and ceremonies, including traditional Jewish weddings, the dancing of the Hora, and traditional music. There is a display of his works in his former Dubrovnik studio.
His style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil...
Category
1960s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowberry, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A grey bird swoops past a dog and dives into a berry bush in artist Jaime Ellsworth's playful piece. The playful work captures the whimsical sense of their unex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
It's Light. Colorful interior with still-live. Acrylic on panel Folk Art
Located in Segovia, ES
It's Light (Es de luz). . Folk Art, Acrylic on wood panel painting by Spanish author Raquel Fariñas.
Dimensions: (H) 40 x (W) 50 x (D) 2cm.
The pictures of Raquel Fariñas are prese...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Swapping Horses" Fred E. Robertson, Grandma Moses, Self-Taught Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Fred E. Robertson (1878 - 1953)
Swapping Horses, 1947
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on masonite
12 5/8 x 24 inches
Fred Robertson, like his more famous older sister, Anna Mary Ro...
Category
1940s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Animal Folk Art Painting Narrative Painting Morocco Africa Magician Red/Orange
Located in Norfolk, GB
This captivating Folk Art painting on board is by the fabulous British Canadian artist Nancy Patterson. It comes from her series ‘Days in t...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Black Swan, Daisy Clarke, Contemporary Painting, Figurative art, Landscape art
Located in Deddington, GB
Black Swan by Daisy Clarke
Original and hand signed by the artist
Oil on Board
Image size: H:60cm x W:60cm
Complete size of unframed work: H:60cm x W:60cm x D:2.5
Sold unframed
Ple...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ABSTRACT WITH EYES OF SYSTEM (PAINTING ON BOARD)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on board with carpet/rug trim. Hand signed on front by the artist.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable of...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Tapestry, Mixed Media, Board
Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting, PBS, Acrylic on Panel, The Outsiders, Folk Art
Located in Houston, TX
Quote from Bob Ross "Only a few "Happy Accidents on this One" LOOK FOR FREE 1STDIBS SHIPPING WHEN YOU CHECK OUT
Robert Norman Ross was an American painter,...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Blob
Located in Denver, CO
Micheal Ousley is a native of Appalachia, originally from the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky. Having traveled all around the Western coal towns of Virginia, West Virginia and th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Marriage Proposal (Family Gathering), " Leo Schutzman, Jewish Folk Art
Located in New York, NY
Leo Schutzman (1878 - 1962)
The Marriage Proposal, circa 1958
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower left
Leo (Kyle) Schutzman (1878-1962) developed ...
Category
1950s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A breath of fresh air. Symbolic Acrylic paint Folk Art Landscape with figure
Located in Segovia, ES
A breath of fresh air (Un soplo de aire fresco). Symbolic acrylic paint on panel Colorful Folk Art Landscape with figure.
Dimension art cm.: (H) 43 x (W) 53 x (D) 6 cm.
The pictu...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Magenta Chrysanthemum, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A pink chrysanthemum blooms in artist Pamela Hoke's lively floral piece. "An island friend gifted me with an enchanting autumnal bouquet from her farm," shares Pam. The playful waving magenta petals drew her attention and compelled her to paint the flower. Pam expresses the vibrant bloom in naturally flowing paint strokes.
About the Artist
Profound sensory experiences of nature unfold in artist Pamela Hoke's stylistically primitive representation of the world and her connection to it. Her vast array of subjects, including landscapes, florals, and animal portraits, emerge as intuitive expressions of energy in motion. She creates her own paint with natural earth and mineral pigments mixed with walnut oil—a beautiful and organic process used by the old masters. Pamela received her degree in fine arts at Ohio State University. Being fully immersed in the natural world ignited her creativity and increased her sense of belonging and overall well-being. She shares a semi-private studio with a group of painters on San Juan Island called the Friday Harbor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Whimsical Tea Party, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A mouse, a bunny, and a fairy-winged dragon share afternoon tea in artist Andrea Doss' whimsical work. While sitting on charming mushroom stools, the creatures ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fishermans Houses, Cape Ann Massachusetts Landscape with boats and figures
By Emma Fordyce MacRae
Located in Rockport, MA
Here's a beautiful painting by the famous Cape Ann and Philadelphia artist, Emma Fordyce MacRae. It's in a custom frame that truly compliments the piece. 25x30 Oil on board; with frame brings measurements to 30x36 inches. Nice bold signature. This piece was featured in Cape Ann Museum show in 2008 - painting is published in exhibition catalog.
The value of her work has really accelerated lately. She was one of the Philadelphia Ten...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Paintings of Boy and Girl
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming pair of oil paintings on canvas of a boy and a girl, one with a doll and one with watermelon. Executed in a naive style once seen hard to forget. Signed Manuel Velazquez and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Outsider Art, Acrylic Painting: 'Grass Fed'
Located in New York, NY
Scott likes to think of his work as what it might look like if an overly observant 5 year old kid from New Jersey left hieroglyphics for alien life forms to discover. A mixture of ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Lemon Branches, Original Painting
By Jodi Dann
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jodi Dann pictures lemons hanging from a tree branch in a delightful color scheme. Part of a series focusing on the zesty fruit. "I can't get enough of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Large Naive European Folk Art Oil Painting Jovan Obican Klezmer Jazz Musician
By Jovan Obican
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 35" x 16.5
Dimensions w/Frame: 35.5" x 17.25
This depicts a Jazz or Klezmer musician. This one is a bass player.
The last photo shows it in a group of three that I have available. This listing is for the one painting.
The artist Jovan Obican iconic style is child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness.
JOVAN OBICAN
Cannes, France, b. 1918, d. 1986
Jovan Obican (1918-1986) artist, painter, sculpture and mosaic ceramic artisan was born in Cannes, France, to his Yugoslavian parents. From childhood on, Jovan practically devoted himself to art, scratching designs into the dirt when paper was unavailable. He trained with many recognized teachers and with many styles. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, and their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a "timeless quality" and a naive, folk art, outsider art brut quality, child-like primitive style. Obican is identified with his style the world over, a style that is simple yet sophisticated; child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with psychological, philosophical or sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Best known for his depictions of folklore and traditional costumes rendered in a playful, childlike style and for his happy Jewish wedding scenes. He often used bright colors and black outlines in his renderings of figures and animals, giving his work an illustration-like quality. Thematically, the artist’s work is similar to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet for its dreamlike images and so-called naïve style of painting. Over the course of his career, the artist maintained a studio in Boca Raton, Florida and Dubrovnik, Croatia—part of former Yugoslavia— where he developed an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish culture. Many of his mature works depict Jewish traditions and ceremonies, including traditional Jewish weddings, the dancing of the Hora, and traditional music. There is a display of his works in his former Dubrovnik studio.
His style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You Are My White. You Are My Blue, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"I am fascinated by people surrounded by the things they love," shares artist Johansen Newman. She paints a couple posing proudly with their blue and white stoneware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled Acrylic and Marker Outsider Art Surrealist Dreamscape
By Hilda Arvey
Located in Surfside, FL
Hilda Arvey started painting at the age of 70. Self Taught, Art Brut, Outsider artist. Mother of celebrated Chicago artist Phyllis Kresnoff.
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
What Are They Looking At ? Sexy Nude Naive Caribbean Art , Swimming Pool Party
Located in Miami, FL
A young man at a crowded upper-class Haitian swimming pool attracts attention. We see him only from the back in a Magritte like pose. Transfixed expressions of some of the nubile bare-breasted bathing beauties and one man with his hands down his pants give us a clue that the mystery man is special.
This is a fascinating work packed with drama and overflowing with pent-up emotion.
Bigaud's narrative is as complex as his figural composition of lookers and swimmers. Notice the sight lines of the lookers go back to front while the two swimmers go from left to right. The twenty-two figures are contained in the rectangular shape of the pool, which is pushed to the front of the picture plane. The cars of the pool partygoers are seen in the background with one witness. He is fully clothed and is most likely a chauffeur. The fully clothed female at the pool offering food is a servant. A boxy-looking radio with a pack of cigarettes and the style of the cars give glue to the date. Most Haitian art depicts average working people. The pool party departs from that tradition and shows life of the Haitian upper class. Most likely, this was painted in Petion-Ville. The higher the elevation in Port-au-Prince the more wealthy the homes. Although the artist's painting technique may be described as naive or lacking polish.
It's one of the reasons why the work radiates charm and interest.
The painting is oversized with huge dimensions of 55 x 48 and will be a statement in any room. Wilson Bigaud is considered to be a Haitian master. The condition is good. Three repaired one-inch issues on the extreme center and upper right edge. Visible only on close inspection. Otherwise presents very well and is elegantly framed,
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Haitian master Wilson Bigaud is renowned for works portraying everyday life and rites of passage—vodou rituals, fortune-tellers, weddings, cockfights, and carnivals—with voluminous figures and lucid colors. Born in Port-au-Prince, in 1946 Bigaud was among the first to attend DeWitt Peters’s Le Centre d’Art d’Haïti, where he studied with Hector Hyppolite...
Category
1970s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
SUNRISE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by DARIA KUSTO
The magic flow reality..
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped From Spain.
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Transport
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Contemporary artist Julian Nemethy is the son of artist Albert Nemethy, and his work can be distinguished from that of his father by the use of
fantastical elements, extreme use of color and detail, and whimsical
touches.
Julian Nemethy is one of the many artists in the Nemethy family. Born in Hungary, his parents fled the Communist regime in the mid-1950s when Julian was a small child. He was one of six siblings who were raised by their father.
In high school, Julian taught himself to paint, and felt he had found his vocation. In the 1980s, he moved to the Smokey Mountains of...
Category
1980s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Day of the Dead, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints four women celebrating Dia de Los Muertos, a tribute to the festive Mexican holiday. "On this day, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Quarter to Three, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints a contemporary portrait of a tattooed man smoking and drinking by the bar. "I imagined the voice of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
UNTITLED (PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Purvis Young
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Living The Free Range Life. Contemporary Naive School Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Happy hens, happy life. An idyllic painting set high on the cliffs above the sea where hens peck, plants grow and the sun shines. Therese James is a very special talent bringing happ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Never Again, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A nude woman sits in an affecting posture, demonstrative of her feelings. Artist Sharon Sieben presents the expressive portrait evoking raw and powerful emotions. Her bold brushwork reveals an articulate and deep narrative. Sharon paints with strong strokes to create dynamic textures in the background.
About the Artist
Sharon Sieben prefers working in a loose, fluid technique and finds inspiration in the most unexpected things. Her parents bought her a set of oil paints when she was ten years old and it sparked her love of art. She especially admires the work of Impressionist artists such as Paul Cezanne because of how they broke tradition. When she's not making art, she enjoys reading and playing classical guitar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Andes Mountains Peru South America, " Joseph Yoakum, Black Folk Art Landscape
By Joseph Yoakum
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Yoakum
Andes Mountains Peru So America, circa 1960s
Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper
7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, South Dakota
Yoakum began drawing in the early 1960s. Most of his work consists of radiantly colored landscapes with mountains, water, trees, and winding roads in abstract and complex configurations. his period of greatest activity — 1965 to 1970 — when he usually made one drawing a day.
Yoakum maintained he had seen all the places represented in his drawings, a statement that may not be true in some instances. He traveled a great deal, beginning in his early teens when he ran away from home and became a circus handyman. Yoakum’s drawings can be considered memory images growing out of either actual or imagined experiences. All of his drawings have titles that grew longer and more specific over the years. He dated his works with a rubber stamp — an oddly impersonal, labor-saving device.
Although Joseph Yoakum gave vastly different accounts of his background, he was, throughout his life, classified as an African American. Sometimes Yoakum claimed that he was a full-blooded “Nava-joe” Indian, one of twelve or thirteen children born to a farmer on an Indian reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. At other times he insisted that he was of African-American descent. He described his mother as a strong woman who was a doctor and knowledgeable in the use of herbal medicines. Yoakum’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, during his early childhood. His father was employed briefly in the railroad yards prior to settling permanently on a farm in nearby Walnut Grove...
Category
1960s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
Palm Tree Painting on Canvas with Seashell Frame
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming palm tree painting on canvas with a mixed media approach using oil, gouache, and watercolor. Featuring a three-dimensional folky sea shell and sea life...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Oil
Mimi in the Chair, Smoking, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman shares a portrait of an older woman in a chic floral dress and fishnet stockings. In a deep blue Mid-Centu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Fruit" Still Life - Post-Impressionist Outsider Art - Acrylic on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold and textured still life by Diana Mallett (American, b. 1981). A bright yellow banana and bright red apple sit on a multicolored surface, against a dark blue background. This pie...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. This framed painting depicts figures, a rooster and angels in flying above. Artist signature on farm gate. Housed in chrome mid century frame.
Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 15 X 21.
Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator.
Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists.
In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street.
In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing.
Awards and recognitions
Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972)
Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979)
Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980)
Worker's Award (1984)
Children's Book of the Year Award (1984)
IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988)
Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)
Albert Star Award (1992)
Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005)
Munkácsy Award (1984)
Solo Exhibitions:
Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965)
Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974)
Little Gallery, Komárom (1982)
Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990)
Vác (2010)
Selected group exhibitions:
International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975)
International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985)
BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985)
XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972)
ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974)
Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975)
Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977)
"Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978)
International Poster Triennale (B) (1978)
National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980)
International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979)
Slide films:
Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings:
Under the Shore (1981)
Goose Party (1981)
Take a Little Trumpet (1982)
The Bremen Town...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache
She Who Wears the Color. He Who Sees the Color., Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints a detailed portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. She bases the piece's title on Frida's diary, where she often recorded thoughts about their life together. "I took the words literally by painting Diego only in shades of black and white while rendering Frida in full color," says Johansen. Frida's vibrant clothing and jewelry sharply contrast Diego's limited palette.The painting comes with a handmade, embellished wood assemblage frame painted black.
About the Artist
Artist Johansen Newman captures various characters through charming scenes that often weave nostalgia. A reflection of her fondness for edge and funk prevails in her dynamic portrayal of humans with animals and objects of their affection. As a toddler, her mother gave her crayons and allowed her to draw on the walls of her room. She pursued a degree in painting and printmaking, then furthered her education by studying with Bil Baird at his puppet theater in New York, ultimately forming her puppet troupe. Years of crafting puppets, designing scenery, writing stories, and performing shows developed her arsenal of skills—going on to be an award-winning fiber artist exhibiting throughout North America. She integrates these learnings into her current art practice. "My paintings capture fragments of a tale in a time and place that was, is, or has the promise to become," says Johansen. She works at her studio and display gallery at Gorse Mill Studios, a 19th Century textile mill building in Needham, MA. Her woodworking shop doubles as her home studio, where she constantly evolves her compositions to satisfy her aesthetic. Johansen's work has been featured on the cover of local publications, in pictorial essays, and toured museums across the United States. She was a professional and published illustrator for more than 35 years, including two dozen children's books, three of which she also wrote. Besides creating art, she finds herself an enthusiast of vintage collectibles, jukeboxes, signages, tin toys, neon lights, cookie jars, carnival chalkware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Neighborhood Shivaree, " Fred E. Robertson, Grandma Moses, Self-Taught Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Fred E. Robertson (1878 - 1953)
Neighborhood Shivaree, 1945
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches
Exhibited:
Buffalo, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright A...
Category
1940s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Pair of Lion Oil Paintings on Board, Perhaps Circus Decor
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of antique oil on board oval panels portraying folky whimsical lion heads. These panels are architectural remnants possible from a circus car.
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Plants and Pets, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints a portrait of two men with their shaggy-haired dog and two cats. A diverse array of potted plants f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Chilly Evening In Boca Raton, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"It's May in Florida, but you know how it is for those who live there full-time. They get used to the hot weather, and the slightest cool breeze sends them scrambling for a jacket," says artist Johansen Newman. She presents a colorful portrait of Ida, bundled up in layers of clothing and wearing a straw hat. She sits on a folding aluminum chair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Male Gaze, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman displays an image of a tattooed woman sitting alone in a tavern surrounded by men. "There's a lot written ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
House Finches and Branches, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman presents a contemporary portrait of a young tattooed woman. Her fiery red locks draw the viewer's attentio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Happy Inlaw, Oil Painting
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York.
Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist.
Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else.
For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Windy Sheep and Blowy Boats, Contemporary Landscape Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
A blustery day on the Welsh coast.
Acrylic on canvas
Signed
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mid 19th Century American Folk Art Portrait of Child with Dog in Landscape, Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: American School, mid 19th century
Title: Portrait of a Child dressed in a hat and their 'Sunday best', with small pet dog in a landscape.
Medium: oil on canvas, un...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Art Tropical Painting on Canvas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming acrylic painting on canvas of a group of colorful figures in a tropical setting executed in a naive style. Signed Osnel in the lower right and presented in the original wood...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rebuff, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Sharon Sieben paints a nude woman in the style of primitivism. The bold gestural strokes evoke raw and expressive emotions. "Something said or done does not meet with her approval," says Sharon. She uses thick layers of graphite and acrylic pigments to shape her vulnerable state.
About the Artist
Sharon Sieben prefers working in a loose, fluid technique and finds inspiration in the most unexpected things. Her parents bought her a set of oil paints when she was ten years old and it sparked her love of art. She especially admires the work of Impressionist artists such as Paul Cezanne because of how they broke tradition. When she's not making art, she enjoys reading and playing classical guitar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ghosts Swarm, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Johansen Newman paints a portrait of a blonde tattooed woman in front of a wall of pictures. Two gray cats sit with the sa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Whimsical French Folk Art, Naive, Oil Painting Madeline Marie Christine Clavier
Located in Surfside, FL
MADELINE CHRISTINE CLAVIER (1913-2015)
Signature: Signed lower right & titled verso
Medium: Oil on canvas
Provenance: The collection of the artist's family
Marie Christine Clavier was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1913 to French parents and lived there for her formative years. She returned to France as a teenager and began to study painting. Her work quickly developed into whimsical paintings of poetry and songs – harmonized in a unique and distinct painting technique. Her work has an impasto feel and a folk art, outsider artist sensibility to it. Similar in style to Maik and other fantasy realists who use animals, flowers and foliage in their artworks. Marie Clavier painted ro herself rather than for profit as she was quite independently wealthy. Her work is in a more whimsical style of Francoise Gilot. She exhibited extensively in the United States in the 1970s especially across Connecticut and New York, showing at various galleries and cultural centres. She had numerous solo exhibitions in the 1970’s- notably at the Maison Francaise in New York and New York University. She showed at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris. She won many awards for her work including Gold Medals and Palme D’Or medals. In 1988 the prestigious art publisher Leopard D’Or produced catalogue book on her life and work – by this point she had virtually given up painting. She died in 2015 aged 102.
Bernheim-Jeune gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Paris. Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promoted realists, Barbizon school paintings and, in 1874, the first impressionist and later post-impressionist painters. It closed in 2019. In 1901, Alexandre Bernheim, with his sons, Josse (1870-1941), and Gaston (1870-1953), organized the first important exhibition of Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris with the help of art critic Julien Leclercq. In 1906, Bernheim-Jeune frères started presenting works by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Cezanne, Henri-Edmond Cross, Kees van Dongen, Henri Matisse, Le Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Georges Dufrenoy. From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat and Umberto Boccioni.
In 1922, an exhibition brought together works by Alice Halicka, Auguste Herbin, Pierre Hodé...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Haitian Painting of Animals in a Jungle by Eustache Louber
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking vintage Haitian acrylic painting on canvas of African animals in a jungle setting executed in a distinctive naive style. Signed by noted artist Eustache Loubert and presente...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Archery Match - Early 20th Century French Antique Naïf Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1928 French naïf oil on canvas depicting an unusual archery match. The two competitors appear to be aiming at a target which is directly above their head...
Category
1920s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outsider Art, Acrylic Painting: 'Good Morning Sunshine'
Located in New York, NY
Scott likes to think of his work as what it might look like if an overly observant 5 year old kid from New Jersey left hieroglyphics for alien life forms to discover. A mixture of ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Board
FERTILITY IV (PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Purvis Young
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 Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
SUMMER MUSIC
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on paper
Shipping from Belarus, Minsk.
Category
2010s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Folk Art paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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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