Folk Art Art

Palm Trees Dive by (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 44x59cm, Edition 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. A...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - America Light of the World, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 16 inches, ...

Mother and child/maternité: a gorgeous, almost Picasso-like early oil on canvas by Petion Savain, dating from 1953. The painting is monogrammed and dated...

Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - Waterside Town II. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 20.5 x 25 ...

The Gift Of The Two Lines Born on March 21, 1906, in Moscow, she arrived as an emigrant to Paris at the age of 15, bearing in her young experience, the weight of the most transformi...

Artist Statement I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...

Artist: Roy De Forest Title: Taylor Family Size: 29.5 x 41 Inches Medium: Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink, pencil and glitter on paper, in artist's frame Edition: Original Year: 1995 Notes: Hand Signed and Dated (Twice, Upper Center Sheet and Lower Right Mount) Sold in the Original Artist Made Frame, As Is. Roy De Forest arrived in San Francisco in 1950 to enroll at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). He later went on to teach at the University of California, Davis, where he dedicated nearly three decades of his career. This move to the Bay Area, far removed from the art epicenter of New York, played a significant role in shaping an artistic movement known as "funk," a term coined by Peter Selz of the University of California's Berkeley Art Museum in 1967. This aesthetic celebrated the unconventional, "lowbrow," and seemingly unsophisticated aspects of art. Notably, artists like Jim Nutt...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Cats, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph and Blind Embossing, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 9.5 x 15 inche...

This vivid and rebellious acrylic mixed-media portrait of Abraham Lincoln transforms the iconic president into a surreal, expressive figure bursting with color and symbolism. Render...

Early 20th century Folk Art Impressionist oil on board view of a farmhouse. Initial signed but artist unknown and dated 1924 to the bottom right. Presented in a really beautiful peri...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Rhino. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 6 x 8 inches, Size: 10.5 x 15 in. (26.67 x 38.1 cm...

Standout vintage Chinese horned animal with a removable lid ambitiously handcrafted in woven reed or wicker with carved wood highlights. From the famed Shanghai Collection.

A pair of evocative beach still life painting that flirt with surrealism by outsider artist, John Prue. Oil on masonite panel, each measures 12 x 24 i...

Five Penna Barns by Kay Ameche, American (1904–2005) Date: 1981 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200, AP 40 Image Size: 17 x 23 inches Size: 22.5 in. x 28 in. (5...

Speckles (Sidewinder), diptych - 2005, 127x126 each, installed 127x265cm, Edition of 5, 2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on 2 P...

Rare Vintage unusual piece. In this bronze or metal sculpture by Frank Meisler, the artist depicts a Klezmer violin player The figure seems cartoon-like with exaggerated facial featu...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Pennsylvania Dutch, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Siz...

Mid century pulp art portrait of a somber clown with a yellow shirt, red hair and a red nose, holding a scepter in a dramatized space with a candle and green ...

Whisky Dance III (Sidewinder), 2005 20x24cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 3207, not mounted Stefanie S...

'Brandon' (California Blue Screen) Edition 3/5, 44x59 cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature la...

3 Palm Trees (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition 2/3, 114x142cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection....

Silkscreen work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Work is from from her "Sitting Bull Goes to Washington" series. Marked in pencil 15/18 lower left. Printed in 1976 by the artist. Catalo...

Untitled, c. late 20th/21st century Mixed media 22 x 17 3/4 in. Framed: 29 3/4 x 25 2/3 x 2 1/2 in.

Whisky Dance VIII (Sidewinder) - 2005 3 pieces installed including gaps 38x148cm, each artwork is 38x46cm. Edition of 10. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on 3 Polaroids. Mounted on D...

Sunday, Late Afternoon, Ojai building rooftop, 1997 (California Blue Screen) Edition 1/5, 44x59 cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate a...

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Untitled, from from the Artsounds Collection, 1986 Lithograph on paper Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio. 12 × 12 inches Unframed Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in ink on the back; also bears artist's stamped name and provenance - Art Sounds portfolio. This terrific offset lithograph print exemplifies the combination of religion and kitsch that Lanigan Schmidt is best known for. This print was created in the 1980s for the famous Artsounds portfolio, which featured prints by Marcel Duchamp, Jonathan Borofsky among others. Lanigan-Schmidt was a subject of a 2013 retrospective at PS1 MOMA and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Provenance: Artsounds Portfolio About Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Ackland Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, among others. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including the 1980 and 1984 Venice Biennales, the 1991 Whitney Biennial, and the 1999 exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Tenemental: With Sighs Too Deep for Words, Howl! Happening, New York (2018); Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: Mysterium Tremendum, Rockland Art Center, NY (2013); and Ecce Homo: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt & The Art of Rebellion, Pavel Zoubok...

Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of...

Korean Celadon Vase by Unknown Artist Date: 1973 Celadon Vase Size: 17 x 19 x 19 in. (43.18 x 48.26 x 48.26 cm)

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Jury, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 123/300, Image Size: 10 x 14 inches, Frame Size: 18.5 x 22.5 inches

Dimensions board backing is 2 X 18.5 board opening is 16.5 X 13 inches 19th Century framed tapestry of a Rabbi, embroidered sampler, with beaded script below. (it reads J. Eger Ober...

Artist Statement I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown, died 2025 Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Fool Gold" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown-Died 2025 "The inspir...

Unknown/ Unidentified Artist, "Red Devil", Wooden Figurative Folk Art Sculpture, 30 H x 10 W x 6 D, 20th Century, ca. 1989 Colors: Red, Brown, Black Proven...

View of the Towers of Chartres Cathedral in Acrylic on Artist's Board Colorful, idealistic representation of Chartres Cathedral and the surrounding area by Ben Venezky (American, 18...

Anglo Indian carved mahogany cat with ebonized stripes and a curious expression, featuring a secret compartment on the bottom.

A VERY rare Tigre (TIGER) Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Anonymous Deep Yellow Tigre Dance Mask. Early 20th C. Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Painted leather and fur. Museum-quality...

Artist: Igor Galanin, Russian/American (1937 - ) Title: Pig with Pink Bow Year: circa 1985 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100, HC XXX Paper Size: 33.5...

Printed by Pierre Chave, Vence, published by Bianchi Frères in Nice, France ink on watermarked chiffon de Mandeure paper, hand signed in pencil lower right, "PH Dureux," numbered 4/5...

Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Old New York, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 18 x 26 inches, Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 c...

Music Box A Phillips Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 6.5 x 8.75 inches Size: 8.25 x 11.5 in. (20.96 x 29.21 cm)

It's just impossible not to smile when you look at Therese James's paintings. She watches all the comings & goings of daily life and transfers it to beautiful, insightful paintings. ...

Mid-Century acrylic on board of Venetian gondolas in harbour signed L Mariani, bottom right. This is a jewel of a painting. Its bright, joyful and intense c...

"Roped into Duality" Abstract Relief Sculpture. Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This eye-catc...

Enchanting vintage Anglo Indian Pishhwai gouache painting on cloth mounted on board, steeped in alagorical context, depicting Krishna dancing with villagers in a background of birds ...

Golfam Jozdani Saint Minecraft II 2024 Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm) Signed and dated...

Claude Tabet, French (1924 - 1979) - Rue de Castiglione. Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, EA, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Description: Either...

One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Acrylic painting is made with plaster on wood, which gives the painting a wonderful texture and depth. Painting is signed and titled on reverse "La Ronde...

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...

Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Puppet Show, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: AP, Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm), ...

One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is made with casein on plaster on wood. Catalogue of a postumous ret...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Anenomes, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm), Descri...

"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture. Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scal...

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Delicate blue butterflies flit across a softly textured neutral background. Subtle black outlines define their fragile forms, while their rhythmic repetition ...

Very Rare Vesuvius lava stone writing set. Torre del Greco (Naples). 19th century. 4 objects with small sculptures (cameos) depicting the poet Petrarch, mythological female figures, ...

My life as an artist started in 1976 when I left Kishinev (Bessarabia) for Israel. In my youth I did not have the opportunity to study an regularly, although I learned painting durin...

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Vibrant purple irises with their deep green leaves capture the height of spring. Tucked between a sidewalk and a parking lot in artist Valerie Berkley’s nei...

Blue Swans Scottie Wilson, (1891-1972) Creation Date: circa 1960 Color Pencil on Paper, mounted to board, signed lower right Size: 25.75 x 17.75 in. (65.41 x 45.09 cm) Frame Size: 27...

Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of a human figure attributed to French artist, A Nuchy. The work is unsigned but was acquired along with ...

Natan Heber was trained by his father in Poland to be a ritual slaughterer. In 1925, he joined the Zionist movement "Mizrachi" and in 1936 immigrated to Palestine where he opened a poultry shop in Haifa. He began to paint at the age of sixty-one, after ill health forced him to retire. Driven by a need to memorialize his family and their shtetl community lost in the Holocaust, he drew scenes of traditional Jewish life. Unfamiliar with the conventions of scale and perspective, he set his heavily outlined frontal figures on steeply rising surfaces and often portrayed his father in monumental size to mark his importance. One of Israel's greatest naive-style painters. Along with Shalom of Safed, Kopel Gurwin and Gabriel Cohen, He is renowned as one of Israel's greatest living naive-style folk art painters, The Haifa Museum of Art will be opening the first ever Outsider Art exhibition (also known as Art Brut) in Israel in January 2013. He was included in the show of Outsider art at Haifa Museum The exhibition included works by Classical Outsider artists, none of them have ever been shown in Israel - Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse, Hauser, Carlo Zinnelli, Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans, William Hawkins and Sam...

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A kindly middle-aged man holds his cat companion in this painting, depicting the artist Jessica JH Roller's husband with one of their family cats. The gentle ...