Folk Art Art

Manhattan-born Mildred Barrett is a woman to whom painting is capturing the mood of the subject with an exceptional use of color. Barrett's training includes the Art Students League...

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...

Signed silkscreen work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). From Women Loving Woomen series. Wonderful work printed by the artist on thick paper. Catalogue of a postumous retrospective in...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - Walden Pond in Winter, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 21 inches, Size:...

Rae Baymiller - Save the Creatures, Year: 1992, Medium: Screenprint Poster, signed and numbered in pen, Edition: 85/175, Size: 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)

A lavish French Aubbusson style jacquard tapestry depicting an exciting Renaissance era hunting scene. The scene is set in a dense forest of blue, g...

A Lands Five Ornaments, Health, Wealth, Fertility, Joy and Safety Oil, gold leaf on arches paper with a crackled varnish finish Image 5" x 7" Mounted 10" x 12" signed and dated low...

The cabbage that sheltered the golden lion is a picture drawn in folk style. A beautiful lion and a magical angel will help in life situations.

*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...

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...

Heavily pigmented with a deep burgundy hue, Tighe O'Donoghue's Surrealistic rendering of a single rose stem is accented by scratchy script above and elegant typeface along the bottom...

Wall 1968, paper, linocut, 20.5x28 cm The linocut print depicts a boy standing in what appears to be a dark or shadowy environment. The artist uses the linocut technique to create ...

Mystery Artist Untitled (Chinese Company/Export School Portrait), c. 1900 Watercolor on paper Sight: 19 x 9 1/4 in. Framed: 22 5/8 x 12 1/4 x 3/4 in. Portraits such as this were cre...

I was thinking of making some lemons squares since I had a bunch of lemons and decided to make lemon squares. Then I thought of the TV show The Hollywood squares and decided to have ...

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 - ) - On The Lomac, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Description: Ari...

Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...

Each intuitive drawing has its own character, its own energy. If you tune in with it, it will give you a charge of vivacity and a bright mood! This work is made in the style of abstr...

Shah Mat Suite - Duncan Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1979 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of V Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)

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...

Watch the Birdie !! One of Therese's fabulous studies of cheeky ladies.

Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) Title: Woman with Dog Year: circa 1990 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, Signature 'BB' inscribed Size: 12 x 6 x 5 in. (30.48 x 15.24 x 12.7 cm...

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...

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Open House, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 7 x 10, Size: 11.5 x 15 in....

Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Bird Flying Over Town. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.6...

Vic Herman, American (1919 - 1999) - Little Fisherman from Boca del Rio, Year: circa 1978, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 26 x 15 inc...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Balloon Race, Year: 1978, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 25, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Size: 26...

From an exhibition created by the artist to celebrate the UK Miners strike from the 1980's These hard times for whole communities in the Welsh Valleys created a sense of togetherness...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Farrah's Original Harrogate Toffee, Year: circa 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Image Size: 26 x 2...

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...

Mu Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: 1979 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - S. Bennington Building, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 23/30, Image Size: 22 x 30.5 inches, ...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Noah's Ark, Year: 1979, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 22 x 30 inches, Size: 26 i...

This ceramic pot was made by an unknown Mossi artist in Burkina Fasso. It was used as a farmer's water jug. The Mossi are a people in central Burkina Faso, living mostly in the villa...

Heropass Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1975 Aquatint Etching, signed in pencil Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Spring Hope, Year: 1978, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm), Des...

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 ...

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...

An allegorical, mid-century woodcut print titled, "Queremos Chuva!", or "We want rain!" (trans. from Old Portuguese) by Brazilian artist Isa Aderne (b. 1923). ...

Mary Faulconer, American (1912 - 2011) - Haitian Barback Shop, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP, Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 ...

Ari Gradus, Israeli (1943 - ) - Notre Quatiere, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Purvis Young (American, 1943-2010) Marking(s); notes: signed Materials: painted wood Dimensions (H, W, D): 24"h, 93"w (work is not framed) Additional Information: Provenance: This work is from the personal collection of Anthony Romano, one of the two guardians appointed to the artist in the later part of his life. Purvis Young (1943–2010) was a self-taught American artist from Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, known for his raw, expressive paintings on found materials that explore themes of social justice, spirituality, and everyday urban life. His work resonates with the visual urgency of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the narrative power of Thornton Dial, and the outsider spirit of Bill Traylor and Sister Gertrude Morgan...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Blue Cat. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm), Description: Rendere...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - Mt. Shasta, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 11.5 x 24 inches, Size: 17.5 in...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - Big Sur, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 21.5 inches, Size: 22.5 in. x...

Out in the park in the snow walking the dog good to see all the children having fun playing in the snow :: Painting :: Folk Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of a...

"I Am Beautiful" is an original opal stone sculpture by Savheri Chirwa, a contemporary Shona sculptor. This sculpture features an elongated face with textu...

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 ...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - Malibu, CA, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 20 x 16 inches, Size: 26 in. x ...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Cactus Fruit Sellers, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed upper right, Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm), Descripti...