Folk Art Art

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Joy, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker lower left, Size: 8.75 x 19.5 in. (22.23 x 49.53 cm)

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Emperor, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker, Size: 22 x 9.75 in. (55.88 x 24.77 cm)

This print was created by Peruvian artist Victor Delfin. Delfin found the source of his inspiration in the ancient Paracan culture of Peru, part of the broader Incan civilization. De...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Village Flowers. Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 19 x 15 inches, Size: 25.5 ...

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 "The Fountain of Youth...

Janis. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 9x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fiction publica...

Shalom Moskovitz (Israel, 1895 - 1980) - Elijah Ascending to Heaven, Year: 1973, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, and titled on verso, Edition: 143/300, Image Size...

Friendly Totems Douglas Mazonowicz, British (1920–2001) Date: circa 1981 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 134/275 Image Size: 23.5 x 18 inches Size: 29 x 23.25 i...

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...

Cyclone Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: Circa 1985 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 99 Image Size: 18 in. x 15 in. (45.72 cm x 38.1 cm) Si...

Figurative abstract woodcut print titled "Serpientes Cafe" by Cecelia Sánchez Duarte. Pencil signed with "P/A" (Artist Proof), title, and signature bottom margin. Image, 31"H x 23.25"W. Sanchez Duarte is a visual artist and a cultural activist. Cecelia also teaches Art History at Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán, is the Fine Arts Coordinator at Centro Municipal de Artes, cofounder of the new Técnico en Artes Plásticas and founder of a painting workshop for children. She has had more than 300 collective exhibits internationally as well as 17 solo shows. Cecelia Sánchez Duarte lives in Mazatlán, Mexico. Cecilia Sánchez Duarte became the new director of the Art Museum of Mazatlan in 2017. Cecilia Sanchez Duarte works in printmaking at the Taller Experimental de Estampa Jose Guadalupe Posada...

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Women and Children, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker, Size: 11.25 x 22 in. (28.58 x 55.88 cm)

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....

Scott Harbison grew up in northern New Jersey, and had an early fascination with cartoons. Somewhat introverted, he seemed to daydream his way through ...

"To Hell with Ho Chi Minn," Folk/Naive Painting, Acrylic on Board with Artist's Painted Wood Frame, 24 x 17 Inches, by Self-Taught artist Elias Telles. Telles is a Vietnam vet who unfortunately suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, who took up painting as a way of dealing with his condition. This painting is a particularly poignant and whimsical abstraction inspired by Tellles's memories of the war. Fifteen years ago, Elias Telles woke from a dream in which an angel holding a lit candle was descending a staircase. The next morning he tore some wood from a dilapidated fence and started painting angels. Elias had already led an adventurous existence before becoming a self-taught painter. Born into a family of 14 siblings in East Los Angeles, he joined the Marine Corps upon graduation from high school and served two years in Vietnam as a rifleman. It wasn’t until he was in his late ‘40s that he started to paint. At a local flea market one of his early works caught the attention of a set designer who placed it in a Steve Martin movie and from there his reputation grew: paintings subsequently appeared in a number of other productions which created a Hollywood following and his collectors now include several film directors, work is included in the permanent collection of The House of Blues, and he was one of the featured artists on the PBS series ‘Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations.’ An ex-marine, Telles lives quietly in California without a computer or a cell phone. His tastes lean towards American history and early blues and country music, subjects that frequently appear in his paintings. Soldiers, skeletons and honky-tonk men populate his paintings as do cultural and historical figures such as early minstrel show entertainer Gus Cannon, a ghoulishly-rendered Hank Williams, and the revered Alabama folk artist Bill Traylor...

Amusing pair of antique anglo Indian birds with a folky charm that have been carved from indigenous hardwood and painted a long ago, now with a rustic patina. Presented on custom sta...

In creating this work, I combined naive charm with elements of surrealism and pop art to evoke a mixture of whimsy and contemplation. Vibrant acrylic colors dance with comic exuberan...

Housewives Choice, A-Z a cute Folk Art Alphabet of kitchen utensils and cooking implements rendered in a whimsical naive style. CHRISTINE McARTHUR was born in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, in 1953 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1971 and 1976. She taught and produced book illustrations before turning to paint full time. she was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute and in 1995 a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. McArthur has been the recipient of a number of awards including The Scottish Arts Council Award and the Glasgow Society of Women Artist Trust Fund Award. She has exhibited widely in the UK, particularly in London and Scotland, as well as in Russia, Hong Kong, Her early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil pastel and watercolour but more recently she has reverted to oil, as well as acrylic and collage. She has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions in the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, and Ainscough Gallery, London, among others. AWARDS S.E.D. travelling scholarship 1975, and 1976, Arts Council Award 1979, and 2004. Glasgow Society of Women Artist’s Trust Fund Award, Lauder Award; R.G.I., N.S. Macfarlane Award; Alexander Graham Munro prize, RSW. Christine McArthur was awarded Scottish Education Department travelling scholarships in 1975 and 1976 and was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1990. In 1995 she was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In 1997 John Lewis commissioned four large murals – each 6ft x 15ft - for the Glasgow store in 1999. In 2002 she received a commission from John Lewis for murals for the extension to their Peter Jones store, Sloane Square, London. Solo Exhibitions from 1984 - present include: Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington; Sue Rankin Gallery, London; Fine Art Society, Glasgow; Portland Gallery, London; Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow; Ancrum Gallery, Roxburgh; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Courtyard Gallery, Crail; John Martin Gallery, London; Gertsey Gallery, Moscow; Gertsey Gallery, Atlanta, USA; Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall; Ainscough Gallery, Devon; Thackeray Gallery, London Private and Corporate Collections include: Lord Irvine of Lairg; Scottish Arts Council; Glasgow Caledonian University; Arthur Anderson; Scottish Nuclear PLC; University of Strathclyde...

A bold, spiritually and politically charged eagle cut-out sculpture by visionary folk artist and preacher Rev. Howard Finster (1916–2001), dated 1991 and numbered 17,000,610. Crafted...

Joyful image of a woodcut print of a Reindeer pulling a Laplander Sami in his Pulk (small toboggan), a traditional scene in Lapland folklore and history by Yuri Mot. Signed indistinc...

Artist: Igor Galanin, Russian/American (1937 - ) Title: Cat with a Bow Year: circa 1985 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 40.5 x 32.5 in. (102.87 ...

This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. 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. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. 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 in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...

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...

Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Wallowing in the Mud Woodblock print 15 x 11 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebra...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlantic Olympics - Tennis with Cats. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25.5 x 15 in. (64.77 x 38.1 ...

Unknown Artist - Torture Scene II, Medium: Gouache on thin laid paper, Image Size: 3.25 x 5 inches, Size: 6 x 8.75 in. (15.24 x 22.23 cm)

Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #15 Paper Indigenous Jorge Calrema Motifs of shamanic significance are very present in the drawings of Jorge Calrema : the jabiru ( pôtsej ), ...

Incredible Outsider Artist Barry Johnson presents a new series of canvas paintings from his creatures series. Wild Colors! Utterly unique compositions....

Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Heading out to Pasture Woodblock print 11 x 16 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celeb...

Paying homage to the Ancient Greek myth of Icarus, this print by Tighe O'Donaghue incorporates planets and a string instrument along with several linear diagrams arranged throughout ...

Atticus Adams is a sculptor whose work embodies the transformative power of art to create beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial materials. Using mostly aluminum mesh—...

Lazar Obican 1944-2004 Tapestry, mixed media applique on woven background Taking The Bird Away, Folk Art, Dimensions: H 80 cm (32.25 in.) x W 58 cm (23in.) 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. This is not an aubusson style but a pieced applique, quilt like style on a wool woven background. Mid century modern textile art...

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Artist and Model, Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP XXV, Image Size: 8 x 13.75 inches, Frame Siz...

Penelope Ellis (1935-2016) Up with the Rooster Woodblock print 15 x 11 cm Provenance: From the artist's estate sale. ​Penelope Mary Ellis (1935–2016) was a British artist celebrat...

Vintage Haitian acrylic painting on board executed in an unusual minimalist modern style with houses, trees and people. Signed E. Abelard and presented in a mahogany frame.

Original pencil signed Judaic woodcut on mulberry paper. MORTON GARCHIK (1929-2009) Jewish American artist painter, printmaker, illustrator, woodcut artist and author. Garchik was ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Psalm of Psalms, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 68/300, Image Size: 29.75 x 21.25 inch...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Fiddler - III, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitting down in an a...

"Messenger" (Mensajero). Symbolic Ocre and blue Acrylic paint Figure Folk Art painting. Acrylic/wood panel. Dimension art: (H) 41 x (W) 30 x (D) 5...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Rabbi with Book - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Placing ...

Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - The River. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, AP 10, Image Size: 20 x 25 inches, Size...

A unique clay mask by Hawaii based artist Ira Ono. Artist: Ira Ono Year: 1982 Medium: Ceramic Size: 10.5 x 5.5 x 3 in. (26.67 x 13.97 x 7.62 cm)

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Horn Player - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowi...

Standout mid century Italian tole sculpture or object of art crafted in metal with a painted green top over a stylized gilt pineapple. Stamped Italy on ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - David and Bathsheba, Portfolio: Song of Songs, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 30 ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - A Leap of Leopards. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA 57/60, Image Size: 8.5 x 13 inches, Size: 11.5 x 23...

*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...

Fantasy landscape naive art oil painting, signed, S. Smith, left side of painting.

Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...

Famed American Illustrator Paul Davis of 1968 Che Guevara poster fame illustrates an article about Whisky from Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the United States. He executes the wor...

Intriguing pair of vintage Chinese cloisonne or enamel on brass birds with quizzical expressions, colorful wings and tails, blue bodies and floral bases.

This retablo was purchased by the gallery in Mexico City. I knew the family that sold the retablo to me. It is dated 1853 because the story on the retablo was passed down for generations and a relative of Lourdes painted it in her memory. The description on the ex-voto reads: "Thanks to the Virgen of San Juan de los Lagos that I have a new job with my new bosses. That they like my food and they don't mind what I prepare for them. " It is in excellent condition. It is framed behind conservatorship glass. The framed size is 14" x 15". The class should only be cleaned with ammonia free cleaner. An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is usually restricted to Christian examples. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshiper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. The destinations of pilgrimages often include shrines decorated with ex-votos. Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include texts explaining a miracle attributed to the helper, or symbols such as a painted or modeled reproduction of a miraculously healed body part, or a directly related item such as a crutch given by a person formerly lame. There are places where a very old tradition of depositing ex-votos existed, such as Abydos in ancient Egypt. Especially in the Latin world, there is a tradition of votive paintings...

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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)

Claude Tabet, French (1924 - 1979) - Montmarte. Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Desc...

Bow Tie Hand signed and numbered, ,limited edition lithograph collage assemblage. Barbara Kohl-Spiro is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based artist whose work has spanned over five decades...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - A Sloth of Bears. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 8.5 x 13 inches, Size: 11.5 x 23 in. (29...

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 ...

Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - Church at Sunset. Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 20 x 25 inches, Size: 27 in....

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)