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Style: Folk Art
Bad Bunny, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this piece, artist Libby Ramage utilizes torn wine labels to define the two figures and their clothing. "A mother is scolding her child for the pile of torn paper at her feet while a guilty bunny in the lower right corner sneaks away," Libby explains of this playful collage.


About the Artist
Libby Ramage infuses a playful and whimsical mood into her works. In fact, she credits the children she works with for greatly influencing her aesthetic. She often uses children’s abandoned work in her collages. Libby currently lives in New Jersey and finds inspiration in the work of Rauschenberg. She believes collectors should buy from the heart.


Words that describe this painting: wine labels, bunny, mother, child, figurative, family, folk art, people, representational, primitive, mixed media artwork, beige


Bad Bunny...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media

American Contemporary Painting Artist Model Easel Gun Richard Huntington Mexico
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on canvas by American artist Richard Huntington entitled "Model Shoots Artist". This new work is part of the current gallery exhibition, A Sense of Place which runs through the end of June. This special exhibition is a celebration of the work of 4 extraordinary artists who used to call Western New York home. Travel lust, adventure, and livelihood have taken each of these artists to distant places, including China, Mexico, Massachusetts, and New York City, but they will always be a treasured part of Buffalo's dynamic arts community. Acknowledging that a sense of place can be an element in any work of art, shaping or transforming it depending on intentions and explorations, Resource:Art is thrilled to present this selection of new work by each of these unique artists. Richard Huntington is a writer, printmaker, and painter who lives in Buffalo, N.Y. and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Born in Albany, N.Y., Huntington received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1959 and an MFA in 1963 from the University at Buffalo, where he studied under Seymour Drumlevitch. He taught studio and art history courses at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill.; lived and worked in New York City, where he showed at the Fulton Street Gallery and other venues; was an art critic for the Buffalo Courier...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

H.M.S Volage British Woolie 1869
Located in Austin, TX
Created in 1869 by British Naval Officer a woolie of H.M.S Volage which was built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was assigned to the Flying Squandron circumnavigating the w...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Soutine's Purveyor, humorous butcher with meat, food
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Regatta day, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
All the wonderful sailing boats out at sea in the fabulous summertime regatta :: Painting :: Folk Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

19th Century British Woolie "Dieu Et Mon Droit"
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century handcrafted Woolie featuring sailboat bordered by British flags with the motto of the British monarch Dieu et Mon Droit, (God and my rig...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Silent Night
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Fannie Lou Spelce Title: "Silent Night" Year: 1973 Size: 16" x 20" Medium: Oil on Linen Signature: Signed & Dated LR Unframed
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Empire State Building: Modern, Naive Style New York City Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Oil on canvas 21 x 21 inches in dark brown wood frame This modern, abstracted naive style oil painting was made by Poughkeepsie, NY based artist Darshan R...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

Wolf and Hedgehogs, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Using her signature folk art-style, artist Jessica JH Roller captures an endearing portrait of a wolf and two hedgehogs in a verdant abstract landscape. Jessica...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Dress Carlos Merida
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing and costume styles from around Mexico. The illustrations depict the cultures of many different states in Mexico, including Oaxaca, Chiapas, Jalisco and Veracruz. Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works, on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city. Carlos Mérida was born Carlos Santiago Ortega in Guatemala City to Serapio Santiago Mérida and Guadalupe Ortega Barnoya. He later changed his name what is known by as he thought it was more sonorous. His brothers and children also took the Mérida name later on. He was of mixed Spanish/Maya-Quiché heritage which he promoted during his life. As a young child, Mérida had both music and art lessons, and his first passion was music, which led to piano lessons. He studied at a trade school called the Instituto de Artes y Oficios, then the Instituto de Ciencias y Letras. Here he began to have a reputation for the avant garde. Merída’s first trip to the United States was in 1917, where he met writer Juan José Tablada. Mérida made several trips to Europe over his lifetime to both study art and work as an artist and diplomat. His early trips in the 1920s and 1930s put him in touch with both avant garde movements in Europe as well as noted Latin American artists, especially those from Mexico. His last trip was in 1950s. In 1963, he donated canvases, graphic pieces and mural sketches to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Merida was one of a number of artists such as Diego Rivera and Gerardo Murillo who became committed to promoting the handcrafts and folk art of Mexico and Central America, with a particular interest in those of Guatemala, often featuring Mayan textiles or elements in their decoration in his artwork. He died in Mexico City at the age of 94 on December 21, 1985. As there was little opportunity for artists in Guatemala, in 1910, Mérida traveled to Paris with a friend named Carlos Valenti on a German cargo ship. From then until 1914, he lived and worked in Paris and traveled much of Europe. This put him in touch with European avant garde artists such as Van Dagen, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian as well as Latin American artists studying in Europe such as Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso, Ángel Zárraga and Dr. Atl. He exhibited his work in venues such as the Independent Salon and the Giroux Gallery in Paris. Mérida has forty five exhibitions in the United States and eighteen in Mexico from 1928 to 1948. These included an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo at the Art Center of New York (1930), the John Becker and Valentine galleries in New York (1930), the Club de Escritores de México and the Galería Posada in Mexico City (1931), the Stendhal Gallery and the Stanley Rose...
Category

1940s Folk Art Art

Materials

Screen

Crown Jewels, colorful, figurative, outsider, narrative, three women, hats
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil n canvas Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wr...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

23'' El Autobus / Wood carving Lacquer Mexican Folk Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Meliton Zeferino Acevedo Made with Tzomplantli wood, woodcarving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with traditional lacquer ba...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Scarecrows in the mixed flowers, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A summers day walk in the countryside looking across the field of flowers with the scarecrows standing guard :: Painting :: Folk Art :: This piece comes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Venado Zapoteco - Zapotec Deer - Mexican Folk Art Cactus Fine Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Venado Zapoteco This Mexican Deer was made with Copal wood, wood carving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with natural dyes and acrylic paintings with Zapotec symbo...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood

Escudo Guerrero del Emperador Ahuizotl Mexican Folk Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE Artisan: Jessica Yazmin Fuerte Alejo FONART Rescue National Award  FONART 2nd. Edition National Award "Grandes Maestros del Patrimonio Artesanal 2015" C...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Other Medium

Altar de Muertos Frida Kahlo / Ceramics Mexican Folk Art Clay
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Cecilio Sanchez Fierro Made with natural clay. Hand-modeled technique decorated with colors of natural earthen substances, and cooked in oven. - D...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

H.M.S Liverpool Woolie
Located in Austin, TX
HMS Liverpool Woolie, 19th Century Made in 1860 British, English Origin Original frame
Category

1860s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Burning II - Gestures - analog C-Print, printed by the Artist - 40x40cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Burning II' (Gestures) 38 x 37cm, Edition 3/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label arti...
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Family Record American Folk Art, dated 1826 Montgomery County, PA
Located in Hallowell, ME
An extraordinary piece of Americana folk art. Jacob Henry Wrestling's Family, 18" x 20" watercolor and ink on paper in the original frame. Wonderful border with grape clusters, leave...
Category

1820s Folk Art Art

Materials

Watercolor

British Woolie in Maple Frame
Located in Austin, TX
"Sailboat in a Maple Frame" - British Woolie, 1870 Wool Embroidery 12 x 19.5 inches Framed 14 x 22 inches 19th Century British Woolie in Maple Frame fe...
Category

Late 19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing and costume styles from around Mexico. The illustrations depict the cultures of many different states in Mexico, including Oaxaca, Chiapas, Jalisco and Veracruz. Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works, on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city. Carlos Mérida was born Carlos Santiago Ortega in Guatemala City to Serapio Santiago Mérida and Guadalupe Ortega Barnoya. He later changed his name what is known by as he thought it was more sonorous. His brothers and children also took the Mérida name later on. He was of mixed Spanish/Maya-Quiché heritage which he promoted during his life. As a young child, Mérida had both music and art lessons, and his first passion was music, which led to piano lessons. He studied at a trade school called the Instituto de Artes y Oficios, then the Instituto de Ciencias y Letras. Here he began to have a reputation for the avant garde. Merída’s first trip to the United States was in 1917, where he met writer Juan José Tablada. Mérida made several trips to Europe over his lifetime to both study art and work as an artist and diplomat. His early trips in the 1920s and 1930s put him in touch with both avant garde movements in Europe as well as noted Latin American artists, especially those from Mexico. His last trip was in 1950s. In 1963, he donated canvases, graphic pieces and mural sketches to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Merida was one of a number of artists such as Diego Rivera and Gerardo Murillo who became committed to promoting the handcrafts and folk art of Mexico and Central America, with a particular interest in those of Guatemala, often featuring Mayan textiles or elements in their decoration in his artwork. He died in Mexico City at the age of 94 on December 21, 1985. As there was little opportunity for artists in Guatemala, in 1910, Mérida traveled to Paris with a friend named Carlos Valenti on a German cargo ship. From then until 1914, he lived and worked in Paris and traveled much of Europe. This put him in touch with European avant garde artists such as Van Dagen, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian as well as Latin American artists studying in Europe such as Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso, Ángel Zárraga and Dr. Atl. He exhibited his work in venues such as the Independent Salon and the Giroux Gallery in Paris. Mérida has forty five exhibitions in the United States and eighteen in Mexico from 1928 to 1948. These included an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo at the Art Center of New York (1930), the John Becker and Valentine galleries in New York (1930), the Club de Escritores de México and the Galería Posada in Mexico City (1931), the Stendhal Gallery and the Stanley Rose...
Category

1940s Folk Art Art

Materials

Screen

Waiting, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Using her signature folk art style, artist Jessica JH Roller captures a tranquil scene of a woman sitting on the shore, looking out longingly at the sea. A q...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Suburbia, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Art Quilt installation of 1 - 12 panels. The panels may be hung in any formation of your choice, depending on space available. This is the second in a series of work inspired by the ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

Sunday Song, Naive School Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Traditions are important in Wales. This painting from Therese takes a peek at the Sunday morning outing to chapel. Wearing their Sunday best the villagers head out and catch up on al...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

19th Century British Steamboat Woolie
Located in Austin, TX
19th British Steamboat with lighthouse featuring English St. George Flag at the Bow and Stern of the ship and a Union Jack Flag at the Stern of the ship. Frame is Birds Eye Maple
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

19th Century Steamboat British Woolie
Located in Austin, TX
An original 19th Century Steamboat Woolie 12" x 15.5" Medium: wool
Category

1860s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Pillow Fight, colorful humorous nude women
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

"The People People 6" by Tracy Crump
Located in Chicago, IL
In this series entitled "The People People," Tracy Crump uses washes of white, red and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each fig...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

The Race 1, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

19th Century Woolie Featuring Sailboat with Saint George British Flag
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century British Woolie featuring Sailboat with red St. George British Flag Medium is Wool Framed In good condition
Category

1860s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Carnival Ride, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A colorful scene of a carnival in Rochester, Minnesota, with two young people strapped into their seats waiting for the ride to start. "I love the tawdry splendor of gaudy carnival attractions," says artist Leroy Burt. "Flashing lights and bright colors. One often sees the most unlikely combinations of people who might never meet except during those moments when they sit next to each other on rides."


About the Artist
Artist Leroy Burt paints playful, offbeat landscapes and portraits based on his experiences living in Milwaukee, New York, Costa Rica, and currently Rochester, Minnesota. "I think of my paintings as short stories," he says. As a young child, Leroy faced a number of obstacles. His parents divorced when he was four years old and he was raised by his grandparents in a three-room shack without running water or electricity. Leroy worked hard to pull himself out of poverty. He studied graphic design and painting, which led to a 30-year career in graphic design - five years at WMVS, the PBS television station in Milwaukee, fifteen years at city hall in Milwaukee, and ten years at WNET, the PBS station in New York. In 2015, Leroy retired to focus his energy on painting. Today, he works from a tiny studio filled with half-finished paintings stacked against every wall. "There are photos and sketches for future paintings taped everywhere," says Leroy. "My windows are filled with orchids. There are books, films and music CDs in every corner. And the room is dominated by a black and silver Andy Warhol silkscreen print of Marilyn Monroe."


Words that describe this painting: David Hockney, Edward Hopper, carnival, lights, excitement, colorful, folk art, people, representational, primitive, acrylic painting, blue


Carnival Ride...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

19th Century Woolie with Curtain Bordered Ship
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century British Woolie featuring a curtain border and floral accents Medium is wool and is considered traditional folk art made by British Royal ...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Angel Maya - Maya Angel - Mexican Folk Art Cactus Fine Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Angel Maya - Maya Angel This Mexican Wood Angel was made with Copal wood, wood carving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with natural dyes and acrylic paintings with Zapotec symbols. At Cactus Fine Art...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood

British Woolie featuring Union Jack British Flag
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Woolie crafted by British Sailor with Japanese flag Insigne 1863 British Steam Boat Entering in Japan Harbor
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool

Still Life 2: Modern, Naive Style Still Life Oil Painting of Fruit & Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
Naive style still life painting of colorful fruit and a brown vase on a grey background Oil on canvas 9 x 12 inches unframed Signed lower left This modern, abstracted naive style s...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Moon Tarot, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Part of Rachel's Rodeo Tarot series. A playful interpretation of The Moon card. The moon hovers above the landscape, embracing circling fish or yin and yang. ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Whisky Dance I (Sidewinder) 8 pieces, analog, 82x80cm each
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Whisky Dance (Sidewinder) - 2005 - Edition 2/5, 8 pieces installed including gaps 172x338cm, 82x80cm. 8 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, ...
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Art

Materials

Metal

The Race 3, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

"Mamas Shock" African American Black Folk Artist
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins (Born 1930) Born Galveston Texas Artist Image Size: 28 x 21.75 Medium: Oil "Mama's Shock"
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Venado Nahual - Nahual Deer Mexican Folk Art Cactus Fine Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Venado Nahual This Mexican Deer was made with Copal wood, wood carving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with natural dyes and acrylic paintings with Zapotec symbol...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood

The Race 2, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

Lemon Winter, colorful humorous woman and dog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works a...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Female), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category

Early 20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood, Textile

10'' Tambor San Bartolo Alebrije Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
By Pedro Joaquin Beltran Aban
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Pedro Joaquin Beltran Aban CAEY 3rd. State Place Category Toys and Musical Instruments CASA DE LAS ARTESANIAS DEL ESTADO DE YUCATAN III Region...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Perfect Moment
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic on canvas. Signed. Ready to hang
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1945 Mexican Modernist Silkscreen Serigraph Print Regional Folk Art Dress Mexico
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing and costume styles from around Mexico. The illustrations depict the cultures of many different states in Mexico, including Oaxaca, Chiapas, Jalisco and Veracruz. Carlos Mérida (December 2, 1891 – December 21, 1985) was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico. He was part of the Mexican muralism movement in subject matter but less so in style, favoring a non-figurative and later geometric style rather than a figurative, narrative style. Mérida is best known for canvas and mural work, the latter including elements such as glass and ceramic mosaic on major constructions in the 1950s and 1960s. One of his major works, on the Benito Juarez housing complex, was completely destroyed with the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but a monument to it exists at another complex in the south of the city. Carlos Mérida was born Carlos Santiago Ortega in Guatemala City to Serapio Santiago Mérida and Guadalupe Ortega Barnoya. He later changed his name what is known by as he thought it was more sonorous. His brothers and children also took the Mérida name later on. He was of mixed Spanish/Maya-Quiché heritage which he promoted during his life. As a young child, Mérida had both music and art lessons, and his first passion was music, which led to piano lessons. He studied at a trade school called the Instituto de Artes y Oficios, then the Instituto de Ciencias y Letras. Here he began to have a reputation for the avant garde. Merída’s first trip to the United States was in 1917, where he met writer Juan José Tablada. Mérida made several trips to Europe over his lifetime to both study art and work as an artist and diplomat. His early trips in the 1920s and 1930s put him in touch with both avant garde movements in Europe as well as noted Latin American artists, especially those from Mexico. His last trip was in 1950s. In 1963, he donated canvases, graphic pieces and mural sketches to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Merida was one of a number of artists such as Diego Rivera and Gerardo Murillo who became committed to promoting the handcrafts and folk art of Mexico and Central America, with a particular interest in those of Guatemala, often featuring Mayan textiles or elements in their decoration in his artwork. He died in Mexico City at the age of 94 on December 21, 1985. As there was little opportunity for artists in Guatemala, in 1910, Mérida traveled to Paris with a friend named Carlos Valenti on a German cargo ship. From then until 1914, he lived and worked in Paris and traveled much of Europe. This put him in touch with European avant garde artists such as Van Dagen, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian as well as Latin American artists studying in Europe such as Diego Rivera, Jorge Enciso, Ángel Zárraga and Dr. Atl. He exhibited his work in venues such as the Independent Salon and the Giroux Gallery in Paris. Mérida has forty five exhibitions in the United States and eighteen in Mexico from 1928 to 1948. These included an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo at the Art Center of New York (1930), the John Becker and Valentine galleries in New York (1930), the Club de Escritores de México and the Galería Posada in Mexico City (1931), the Stendhal Gallery and the Stanley Rose...
Category

1940s Folk Art Art

Materials

Screen

Carreta Herencia de mi Tierra / Wood carving Alebrije Mexican Folk Art Sculpt
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Manuel Cruz Prudencio MASTERPIECE Made with Copal wood, woodcarving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with acrylic paintings ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Counterfeit detector
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Great Duel 18th Century
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A truly rare and remarkable scene of hundreds of swordsmen meeting in a towns square. The circle is closed around the two in the duel, each of whom have drawn blood. German school 18...
Category

1750s Folk Art Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Flat Wooden Shadow Puppet, " Wood & Leather created in Indonesia in the 19th C
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 20" high and 8" wide with movable, was used in Indonesian Wayang puppet shows. Wayang (Kram...
Category

19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Leather, Wood

The Race 4, Contemporary Quilt
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

Mary Dwyer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton_Seneca Falls 1870s_2014_acrylic on board,
Located in Darien, CT
These new paintings illuminate individuals of the American Suffrage Movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B Wells and Alice Paul, each one intelligent, brave and incredibly relentless in the struggle to attain voting rights for American women. This series of paintings portrays the ardent women involved in the American Suffrage Movement which led up to the 19th Amendment...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
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 ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

C Print

Etching of destroyed synagogue - Lodz, Poland
Located in Surfside, FL
Cracow Poland Etching of Polish Synagogue, Jewish temple. From very rare small edition. Most are signed in Hebrew and /or English. some are marked AP some are numbered. please see ph...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Etching

The Slippery Crustacean, humorous, bright color oil painting of boy and lobster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Madagascan Dried Flowers On Hand Made Paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Very pretty montage of indigenous dried wild flowers from Madagascar. Created in the 80s by ladies from a sanctuary for "Fallen Women" Pressed on hand made paper.
Category

1980s Folk Art Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Wood Sculpture, 25 pieces: 'Fiji #2'
Located in New York, NY
I want the viewer to have a sense of wonder and awe when looking at my work. We have all at one point or another picked up a stick from the ground—touched the wood, peeled the bark ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood

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