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Style: Folk Art
Face Jar 20
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
"To Hell with Ho Chi Minn" Naive, Folk Painting by Self-Taught Artist
By Elias Telles
Located in Wellesley, MA
"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...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Red Bird Woman
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
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
Acrylic, Canvas
Mid Century Pulp Art - Sad Clown Portrait with Green, Yellow, & Red
Located in Soquel, CA
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 ...
Category
1960s Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
Allegory of The Wheat Harvest (19th-century Folk Art Child portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Allegory of a Wheat Harvest (Portrait of young child), ca. 1850, by unknown American artist. Oil on panel measures 9 x 11 inches. Unframed. Original con...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Color Spectrum 1, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In primitivism style, artist Kira Yustak presents a majestic view of the jungle. She draws inspiration from natural phenomena occurring in nature. A prismatic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Autumn Evening Reverie, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage presents an autumnal scene marked by large leaves falling from the sky. "As the sun fades, a young boy becomes the man," says Libby. Showi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Once Upon a Time" Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid-century naive painting of small figures and chickens in a rural landscape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the monogram "I. M. H." on lower lef...
Category
1960s Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Firefly Field, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The magic of fireflies fills the field, tempting three clever foxes to chase and capture them. They intend to use the glowing insects for various important pu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Girl in a Red Coat, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This lovely and graceful girl wearing her new red coat greets her smallest cat," says artist Jessica JH Roller. She holds her wide-eyed pet against her chest as if showing the viewer. The cat stares out with open curiosity. A delightful portrait using bold hues and painterly strokes.
About the Artist
A few months after Jessica JH Roller and her husband were married, they adopted two young Siamese cats from a shelter -- Tony and Larry. Jessica quickly fell deeply in love with the kittens and says the cats changed her. "They opened my eyes - I started to notice birds, trees, water, color, everything. It was as if the artist inside had been unleashed.†Jessica uses bold colors and primitive linework to create whimsical, expressive portraits. She intends to capture real or imagined moments that are both common and extraordinary.
Words that describe this painting: girl, folk art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Dunes, Folk Art Screenprint by Ted Jeremenko
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - Dunes. Year: circa 1985, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Image Size: 11 x 16 inches, Size: 19 x 23 i...
Category
1980s Folk Art Art
Materials
Screen
Man With Lizard, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"On hot summer afternoons on the East Side of Milwaukee, a young man could often be seen carrying his pet Tegu lizard to Bradford Beach so it could bask in the sun," says artist Leroy Burt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Coming Home, Rock House, Contemporary Naive School Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Therese James's has painted a view of her family's ancestral home town in Devon UK. The boat in the painting is named after her Mother and Great Aunt
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Filipina Girl Playing the Harp
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant portrait of a Filipino girl playing a harp by an unknown artist (20th Century). This piece is done in the style of traditional Filipino art, with ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood Panel
Don Quixote 2, Folk Art Etching by Charles Bragg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Don Quixote 2, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 10 inches, Size: 1...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Etching
Face Jar 13
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
Face Jar Stack 2
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
Berlin Germany Jewish Memorial Etching Destroyed Synagogue Folk Art Judaica
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
Portrait of a Gentleman, American Folk Art Portrait, Sideburns
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1850s-1860s
Oil on Canvas
14" x 12"
Housed in a 2" Frame
Overall Size: 17 1/2" x 15 1/2"
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Classic American Winter Landscape Signed G. Kent
Located in New York, NY
G. Kent
Untitled, c. 1880-1910
Oil on canvas
10 x 12 1/4 in.
12 x 14 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.
Signed lower right: G. Kent
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Can Can', Woman Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, Florence, French Dance
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sandra Grassi Nelipovich' (American, born 1938) and dated 1981. Artist business card on original frame backing with title, 'Can Can'.
A complex, multi-figural ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Art
Materials
Fabric, Paint
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. The 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.
t'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 Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Sun Tarot, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Rachel's Rodeo Tarot series. A playful interpretation of The Sun card. The sun hovers above the landscape with a slight smile. Twin girls reach for each other behind the bottom rays and the scene is bordered by prancing horses. The base layer of the painting is acrylic gold paint as a symbol of the heat and fundamental life giving force of the sun. The eyes of the sun are gold acrylic paint. "This sun painting is my version of the Tarot card and influenced by my horse obsessed childhood and my childlike interpretation of the solar being, the childlike sense of completion, openness, and light and my newly linked connection with Tarot," says Rachel.
About the Artist
For Rachel Srinivasan, an idea is worth putting on a canvas only if it still feels exciting after a few days. Rachel enjoys mulling the idea over in her mind for some time before creating an artwork. She hopes viewers will engage with her work and wonder about the subject matter, shapes and colors. "My current work is all about creating a connection between the person on the canvas with the viewer," she explains. She prefers large paintings and sometimes even makes her own canvases. She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys baking rhubarb pies, reading, running and going to art museums.
Words that describe this painting: sun, solar, Tarot card, cosmic, stars, horses, daydream, twins, equine, fantasy, representational, primitive, oil painting, yellow
The Sun Tarot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Oil
"Dotty Dogs" Contemporary Mixed Media on Paper Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Therese’s dogs are a firm favourite with collectors. This pair are cheeky and irresistible. They’re a little reminiscent of Staffordshire flat back...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Fairy Tale, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Andrea Doss presents a whimsical narrative of a fairy reading a book to animals in the forest. "She read all sorts of books, but her favorite kind were...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled Carved Abstract Relief Sculpture by Kano
Located in Soquel, CA
Untitled carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Wood panel has large cut-outs where golden wire is strung between the edges.
This striking pi...
Category
1990s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wire
Snobby Chef Big Hat - Upscale Restaurant Sophisticated Taste
Located in Miami, FL
With his hands on his hips and a look of contemplation, Bemelmans, with a few lines, captures the essence of a top Chef. This is not a portrait of a specific individual but more of a...
Category
1960s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pen
Coleccion de mascaras Michocacan / Wood carving Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
By Martin, Gerardo & Juan Carlos Salgado Castrejon
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE!
Artisan: Martin, Gerardo & Juan Carlos Salgado Castrejon
MASTERPIECE
Mask made with Colorin wood, woodcarving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with lacquer. Includes: El Señor de la Naranja, Negro, Negro Riendo, Satanas, Maria, Tataqueri, Colarilla, Olmeca, Asmodeo, Astucia, Viejitos, Hermitaño, Los Ortelanos, Cocucha and Baston para el Tataqueri.
- Dimensions: 31" x 31" x 2" in or 80 x 80 x 5 cm
- Weight: 15.4 lb or 7...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood
Face Jar 18
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #15 Paper Indigenous Jorge Calrema
Located in Houston, TX
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 ), ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Rare Vesuvius Lava Stone Writing Set. torre Del Greco (naples). XIX
Located in Firenze, IT
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, ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Stone, Brass
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
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Mitote Folklórico - Inlay Nacre Frame - Mexican Folk Art- Cactus Fine Art
By Marcelino Eduardo Sanchez Rodriguez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
MASTERPIECE
Masterpiece made of Inlay Nacre glued with vegetal glue over the wood and painting with tints and oils.
LISTING
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1 Inlay Nacre Frame
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Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Other Medium
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...
Category
1940s Folk Art Art
Materials
Screen
"Queremos Chuva!" - "We Want Rain!"- Mid Century Brazilian Figurative Abstract
By Isa Aderne
Located in Soquel, CA
An allegorical, mid-century woodcut print titled, "Queremos Chuva!", or "We want rain!" (trans. from Old Portuguese) by Brazilian artist Isa Aderne (b. 1923). ...
Category
1960s Folk Art Art
Materials
Woodcut, Paper
15'' San Miguel Arcangel / Wax Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
By Marco Antonio Miranda Razo
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE!
Artisan: Marco Antonio Miranda Razo
MASTERPIECE
Figures made and shaped with bee wax; dressed with feathers of different types of birds.
*Special Permis...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wax, Mixed Media, Other Medium
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...
Category
1940s Folk Art Art
Materials
Screen
Chipmunks, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting depicts a pair of cheerful woodland creatures," explains artist Kira Yustak. "Two chipmunks scamper around on a log in the forest. It's a great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Idora Ghost #9, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The photographs that form the head of this catlike creature are images of the carousel from the amusement park Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio that is long go...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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 Art
Materials
Acrylic
Angels Of Love And Hope. Contemporary Naive School Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Welsh artist Therese James has the very special gift of being able to make a thought provoking art work without being preachy or censorious. She uses her own background of life in th...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Into God's Hands: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic paint on box canvas. Ready too hang
Signed
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Folk Art Oil Painting of a Cat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming French oil painting on canvas of a tabby cat staged with curtains and tassels, executed in a naive style that captures the enigmatic feline nature. With "CHAT" written on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cactus Garden, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I have a succulent in a ceramic sugar skull pot in my kitchen and painted it from life. It has a wonderful expression on its face, and I enjoy the spikey succulent growing from the top like hair.
About the Artist
Kira Yustak paints fantastical scenes that come from her childhood memories, dreams, and the natural world. Each piece feels like part of a larger narrative of an alternative reality, rendered in a style she describes as comic realism. She feels art must trigger something inside the viewer’s soul.Kira currently lives in New Jersey and finds inspiration in the work of Lowbrow, Folk, and Surrealist artists.
Words that describe this painting: sugar skull, cactus, houseplant, garden, plants, day of the dead, succulent, still life, still life, representational, primitive, acrylic painting, green
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
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
Face Jar 14
Located in Santa Fe, NM
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 ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Ceramic
1950's Wabi Sabi Daisy Duck
Located in Vancouver, CA
This Wabi Sabi Daisy Duck sculpture, carved from a single piece of wood, offers a charming and unrefined representation that reflects the straightforward creativity of its time, like...
Category
1950s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Paraguayan Ink Drawings from the Chaco #14 Paper Indigenous Sebastian Alvarez
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Meier Gallery purchased and framed these drawings from the Indigenous artist Sebastian Alvarez in 2025. A percentage of the proceeds will be sent to Sebastian Alvarez family in ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Dancers, Haitian Naive Painting
By Saincilus Ismael
Located in Surfside, FL
SAINCILUS ISMAEL
Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite, Haiti, b. 1940, d. 2000
Saincilus Ismael was born in Petite Riviere de l’Artibonite, Haiti.
He began to paint in 1958, after visiting the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince. In 1967, he was one of a group of artists commissioned to paint the community exhibition hall at Deschapelles.
His work bears the influence of Byzantine art he saw in books. Like Gerard...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Steam Bath, Aniak
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Steam Bath, Aniak" 1995 is a color offset lithograph on paper by noted American artist Rie Mounier Munoz, 1921-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 38/950 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 6.75 x 10 inches, sheet size is 10.5 x 14 inches. It is in excellent condition..
About the artist:
Alaska painter Rie Mounier Munoz was the child of Dutch parents who immigrated to California, where she was born and raised. She is known for her colorful scenes of everyday life in Alaska.
Rie (from Marie) Munoz (moo nyos), studied art at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In 1950, she traveled up the Inside Passage by steamship, fell in love with Juneau, and gave herself until the boat left the next day to find a job and a place to live. Since then Juneau has been home to Munoz. She began painting small vignettes of Alaska soon after arriving in Juneau, and also studied art at the University of Alaska-Juneau.
Munoz painted in oils in what she describes as a "painstakingly realistic" style, which she found stiff and "somewhat boring." Her breakthrough came a few years later when an artist friend introduced her to a versatile, water-soluble paint called casein. The immediacy of this inexpensive medium prompted an entirely new style. Rie's paintings became colorful and carefree, mirroring her own optimistic attitude toward life. With her newfound technique she set about recording everyday scenes of Alaskans at work and at play.
Of the many jobs she has held journalist, teacher, museum curator, artist, mother, Munoz recalls one of her most memorable was as a teacher on King Island in 1951, where she taught 25 Eskimo children. The island was a 13-hour umiak (a walrus skin boat) voyage from Nome, an experience she remembers vividly. After teaching in the Inupiat Eskimo village on the island with her husband during one school year, she felt a special affinity for Alaska's Native peoples and deliberately set about recording their traditional lifestyles that she knew to be changing very fast.
For the next twenty years, Rie practiced her art as a "Sunday painter," in and around prospecting with her husband, raising a son, and working as a freelance commercial artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and curator of exhibits for the Alaska State Museum. During her years in Alaska, Munoz has lived in a variety of small Alaskan communities, including prospecting and mining camps.
Her paintings reflect an interest in the day-to-day activities of village life such as fishing, berry picking, children at play, as well as her love of folklore and legends. Munoz says that what has appealed to her most were "images you might not think an artist would want to paint," such as people butchering crab, skinning a seal, or doing their laundry in a hand-cranked washing machine.
In 1972, with her hand-cut stencil and serigraph prints selling well in four locations in Alaska, she felt confident enough to leave her job at the Alaska State Museum and devote herself full time to her art. Freed from the constraints of an office job, she began to produce close to a hundred paintings a year, in addition to stone lithograph and serigraph prints.
From her earliest days as an artist, Rie had firm beliefs about selling her work. First, she insisted the edition size should be kept modest. When she decided in 1973 to reproduce Eskimo Story Teller as an offset lithography print and found the minimum print run to be 500, she destroyed 200 of the prints. She did the same with King Island, her second reproduction. Reluctantly, to meet market demand, she increased the edition size of the reproductions to 500 and then 750. The editions stayed at that level for almost ten years before climbing to 950 and 1250.
Her work has been exhibited many solo watercolor exhibits in Alaska, Oregon and Washington State, including the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Alaska State Museum in Juneau, Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Tongass Historical Museum in Ketchikan, and Yukon Regional Library in Whitehorse; Yukon Territory, and included in exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute and Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Munozs paintings have graced the covers of countless publications, from cookbooks to mail order catalogs, and been published in magazines, newspapers, posters, calendars, and two previous collections of her work: Rie Munoz...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
Christmas on 42nd Street, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Nothing captures the excitement of New York City like Christmas ornaments in and around Times Square," says artist Leroy Burt. "Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Un Dau Tri, Contemporary Quilt
By Bethan Ash
Located in Brecon, Powys
Triptych of three interacting panels inspired by artist's love of Graffiti as an art form and her interest in the decline and revival of the Welsh language. It is a little-known fact...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Fabric
Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman with a child and is hand-painted in a palette of red, blue, and purple. Belonging to a genre known as 'beauties and babies,' the painting represents a harmonious family life. The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Our Last Day Of Summer
Located in Brecon, Powys
The artists reflection on her childhood days. Catching the last of the summers warmth on the beach.
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed
16" x 12"
2022
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
MORNING BREAKFAST Mixed Media Collage, Colorful Abstract Family Having Breakfast
Located in Union City, NJ
MORNING BREAKFAST is an original mixed media collage on board by Brooklyn artist Karl A. McIntosh. MORNING BREAKFAST is a somewhat amusing, colorful abstract portraying a black family seated together having breakfast. McIntosh's inventive use of cut bits of colored paper in shades of red, brown, blue, pink, black, and magazine print clippings for facial details, dishes, lettering layered with wildly expressive yellow, blue, green and white painted accents create an energetic and rambunctious morning gathering to start the day! The viewer can't help but continue gazing at the frenzied movement and visual chatter going on in MORNING BREAKFAST, a captivating and irresistible painted collage by Karl A. McIntosh.
Framed size - 27.25 in. x 33.5 in.
Image size - 221.25 in. x 27.5 in.
Excellent condition, archival framing, cherry tone beveled wood frame with green and gold liner, hand signed by the artist "K.A.McIntosh" on upper left edge.
About the artist:
Karl A. McIntosh is a self taught artist who works is pastel, watercolor, acrylic, stone, wood and metal and is a known for his imaginative transformation of found objects into works of art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, McIntosh moved to the United States at an early age and later took up art. Among his mentors are artist Otto Neals with whom he worked at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Working Workshop and artist Marian Griffin. McIntosh is also a poet, drummer and dancer who draws his creative inspiration and expression from his study of African art and culture.
McIntosh’s bold, bright colors dance off the page and tantalize the senses. His work is profound in its statement and deliciously whimsical. His work is an honest portrayal of everyday life and the people who live it but on occasion, takes on public figures and world events most often employing satire as thick as the layers of paint or paper he uses to depict them.
McIntosh’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues across the country including Dorsey’s Art Gallery, The Skylight Gallery, MOCADA (The Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art), 843 Studio Gallery, The National Black Fine Art...
Category
1990s Folk Art Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Glue, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board, Pencil
'1994' by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Colorful Mixed Media Geometric Abstract
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld's '1994' is a versatile and dynamic 38" x 64" mixed media artwork that resonates with the spirited essence of abstract expressionism. The canvas is a symphony of co...
Category
1990s Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper
Pegasus Astrological Chart from the Zodiac of Dreams Series, Lithograph
Located in Long Island City, NY
Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Pegasus Astrological Chart from the Zodiac of Dreams Series. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph with Embossing, signed in pencil, Edition:...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
Noche Crist Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Sculpture is made from polyester resin. Catalogue o...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Pair of Mid Century Scandinavian Giraffe Sculptures
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Stand out pair of mid century giraffes one standing and one grazing with a unique construction of shaved reed bundles and having carved wood heads,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood
The Golden Sea. Female bather with lobster warm yellow and soft red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painted on linen mounted on cradled wood panel titled signed and dated on reverse.
It is a humorous allegory depicting a bather holding a large golden yellow lobster....
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Petite Portrait - Woman in Feathered Hat, Lithograph by Judith Bledsoe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Petite Portrait - Woman in Feathered Hat. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 8 x ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
Estee, Oil on Panel, Folk Art, Estee Lauder, Portraits, The Outsiders, 20 x 15
Located in Houston, TX
Quote from Estee Lauder "Be Strong. Be Confident " Be the Star of your own life". "Keep and eye on the competition but this doesn't mean copying them."
Below are other paintings available by Tommy...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Child's Winsdor Chair, antique, ca. 1880, American (Maine), original red wash
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Rare child's Windsor chair, ca. 1880s. American antique, crafted in Maine. Original red wash. Seat is 22" from the floor. Originally made for a child. (Does not conform to today's sa...
Category
1880s Folk Art Art
Materials
Wood
Camel, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Jessica JH Roller paints a self-portrait of a mastered yoga pose. It captures the geometric beauty of the posture called Ustrasana, or Camel. The subtle curve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
The Elephant's Tea Party, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The elephant always hosted the best tea parties, everyone agreed," says artist Andrea Doss. "Her dream was to bake a cake taller than the giraffe, but she ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Feast of San Gennaro, New York Screenprint by Ralph Fasanella
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Feast of San Gennaro was a traditional celebration in Naples for Saint Gennaro, who became a martyr in the year 305. Long celebrated in Italy, immigran...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Screen
Starry Night. Contemporary Naive School Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
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. ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Folk Art Encampment Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 19th Century
Folk art encampment painting w/miners & farmers
Oil on canvas
No visible signature
Canvas: 20" W x 14" H
Frame: 23.5" W x 17.5" H
Category
19th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Castle, Aquatint Etching by Keiko Minami
By Keiko Minami
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004)
Title: Castle
Year: circa 1985
Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 12 x 11 inches
Size: 22 ...
Category
1980s Folk Art Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Gouache
Winter Wonderland Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Snowy oval shaped landscape of a barn and a cozy log cabin in a scenic winter wonderland by Ginger Sammell (American, 20th Century). Presented in a c...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Bubby and Zayde, Judaica Folk Art Jewish Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
The title of the piece makes reference to the subject of the piece, in this case Bubby (Grandmother in Yiddish) and Zayde (Grandfather in Yiddish). In terms of style, it looks illustrative, cartoonist, and fairy-tale like. Edition 76/260.
Michoel Muchnik was born in Philadelphia in 1952. Muchnik received his artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design. He later studied Jewish and Talmudic studies at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey.
Michoel Muchnik's art focuses on imaginative and joyful depictions of traditional and mystical Jewish and Hasidic themes. Muchnik has exhibited his work and lectured on Hasidic art throughout the United States as well as abroad. In 1977, Muchnik was selected alongside four other Hasidic artists, including Hendel Lieberman...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
Folk Art art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Folk art 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 art 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, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Robert Richter, Stefanie Schneider, Stephen Basso, and Therese James. 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, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $70 and tops out at $125,000, while the average work sells for $1,615.
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