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Style: Folk Art
African House
Located in Metairie, LA
Clementine Hunter, African House This is an excellent example of Hunter’s work, featuring the iconic African House. Three figures are present in the work, a boy, a girl, and an elde...
Category

1960s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board, Pencil

"Mamas Shock" African American Black Folk Artist LEON COLLINS OF TEXAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins Born Galveston Texas Artist Image Size: 28 x 21.75 Medium: Oil "Mama's Shock" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Te...
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

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

Condor, Folk Art Screenprint by Victor Delfin
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
Category

1980s Folk Art Art

Materials

Screen

Peter Grimes, Surrealist Lithograph with Paper Collage by Judith Bledsoe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Peter Grimes (Will Barnet Print with Collage). Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph with Paper Collage, Image Size: 21 x 21 inches, Size: 30 x 22 ...
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large Naive European Folk Art Oil Painting Jovan Obican Klezmer Jazz Musician
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: 35" x 16.5 Dimensions w/Frame: 35.5" x 17.25 This depicts a Jazz or Klezmer musician. This one is a bass player. The last photo shows it in a group of three that I have available. This listing is for the one painting. The artist Jovan 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. JOVAN OBICAN Cannes, France, b. 1918, d. 1986 Jovan Obican (1918-1986) artist, painter, sculpture and mosaic ceramic artisan was born in Cannes, France, to his Yugoslavian parents. From childhood on, Jovan practically devoted himself to art, scratching designs into the dirt when paper was unavailable. He trained with many recognized teachers and with many styles. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, and their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a "timeless quality" and a naive, folk art, outsider art brut quality, child-like primitive style. Obican is identified with his style the world over, a style that is simple yet sophisticated; child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with psychological, philosophical or sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Best known for his depictions of folklore and traditional costumes rendered in a playful, childlike style and for his happy Jewish wedding scenes. He often used bright colors and black outlines in his renderings of figures and animals, giving his work an illustration-like quality. Thematically, the artist’s work is similar to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet for its dreamlike images and so-called naïve style of painting. Over the course of his career, the artist maintained a studio in Boca Raton, Florida and Dubrovnik, Croatia—part of former Yugoslavia— where he developed an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish culture. Many of his mature works depict Jewish traditions and ceremonies, including traditional Jewish weddings, the dancing of the Hora, and traditional music. There is a display of his works in his former Dubrovnik studio. His style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. 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. 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...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Agapito Labios Mexican Folk Art Oil Painting on Canvas of a Girl
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Enchanting oil painting on canvas of a girl in a ceremonial dress against an architectural background executed in a distinct naive folk art style. Signed Agapito Labios and presented...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

"Es Posible sin Alas". Symbolic Paint. Folk Art Landscape with figures.
Located in Segovia, ES
"Es Posible sin Alas". Symbolic paint. Folk Art Landscape with figures by spanish artist Raquel Fariñas. Acrylic mixed media/ wood panel, 48 x 55 x 4 cm. In inches: 18.9" x 21.65" x...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Three Kings, Framed Folk Art Lithograph by Judith Bledsoe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Three Kings. Year: 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 154/375, Size: 20.5 x 16 in. (52.07 x 40.64 cm), Frame ...
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Lithograph

Israeli Folk Art Oil Painting Pomegranates Naive Style Still Life Hedva Yardeni
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 29.5 X 37.25 sight 28.5 X 36.25 Hedva Yardeni was born in 1969 in Jerusalem to a traditional jewish family. She grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. During 2004 yardeni settled in los angeles, on this time Yardeni's work was based on images, landscapes and jewish symbols taken from her childhood in Jerusalem. The dominant motif in her work is the pomegranate. In the jewish – Israeli tradition, a myriad of symbolic meanings has been ascribed to the pomegranate. This humble fruit signifies the land of israel and the revival of the jewish people. It is the symbol of the land's wealth and prosperity. Yardeni returned to Israel in 2005, settling in the galilee. She rediscovered the exquisite beauty of her home land and let the full expression of her deep love to Jerusalem from her soul and onto the canvas.Her recent work is full of light and joy reflect an inner spirit that is always reaching towards the Almighty. They are more abstract, pure and radiant with light. Her work has a naive, whimsical, folk art quality to it. Yardeni grew up in Jerusalem and completed her BA in art at Kay academy Beer Sheva, and my MA at Schechter Institute of jewish Studies...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist FOLK ART Original Pencil Lithograph "GRAY DAY AT THE BEACH"
Located in New York, NY
Doris Lee Lithograph 1964 Edition Size: 250 Image Size: 12 x 9.5 inches Sheet Size: 16.75 x 13 inches Reference: AAA 1532 Signed lower left Condition: Good Provenance: ASA Doris Emr...
Category

1960s Folk Art Art

Materials

Lithograph, Archival Pigment

Israeli Folk Art Bright Colorful Naive Floral Painting, Mod Flowers in Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
A fantastic vase of bold colorful flowers. signed and dated in Hebrew and English, Jerusalem 1989. Litvak's life as an artist started in 1976 when he left Kishinev (Bessarabia) for Israel...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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

Oil, Canvas

"Los Recolectores" (The Gatheres). Symbolic Paint. Folk Art with Figures.
Located in Segovia, ES
"Los Recolectores" (The Gatherers). Symbolic paint. Folk Art Landscape with figures by spanish artist Raquel Fariñas. Acrylic mixed media/ wood panel, 47 x 38 x 3 cm. In inches: 18....
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"En Oriente" (In the East). Symbolic Paint. Folk Art Landscape.
Located in Segovia, ES
"En Oriente" (In the East). Symbolic paint. Folk Art Landscape by spanish artist Raquel Fariñas. Acrylic mixed media/ wood panel, 62 x 50 x 4 cm. In inches: 24.41" x 19.69" x 1.57" ...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Outsider Artist American Modern Animals Colorful Geometric Red Blue
Located in Buffalo, NY
A whimsical modern American painting of animals in a geometric composition. Signed Taylor this wonderful folksy painting comes housed in a re...
Category

1990s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Etching of destroyed synagogue - Bialistok, 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

Familiar II, Henry Walsh, Landscape painting, Dog art, Woodland scene
Located in Deddington, GB
Familiar II by Henry Wlash [2021] Familiar II by Henry Walsh is an original acrylic painting on a wooden board that features a man and dog at leisure on a wintry walk. Henry Walsh’s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Board

COCOA CAT original painting
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto. Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tubeю
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Flowers
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Roman Dub "Flowers"
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Etching of destroyed synagogue - Volpa, Belarus
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

"Celebration of Life" Colorful Abstract Figurative Hexagon Canvas Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Bright and colorful abstract figurative painting incorporating a variety of characters including a devil, angel, frog, cat, and rooster. Signed and dated on the back by the artist.
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Mid-Century Balinese River Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Ink painting of a traditional Balinese river scene attributed to Dewa Putu Lopid. Intricate and dynamic ink wash painting of a traditional Balinese river and village scene. In the f...
Category

1950s Folk Art Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Large Semi-Abstract Oil Landscape – City Park Denver, Colorado, Colorful View
Located in Denver, CO
This monumental oil on canvas by noted 20th-century Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993) captures a vivid, semi-abstract interpretation of City Park in Denver, Colorado. Measu...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Bread and Cabbage Nude food and seated nude female figure warm earth tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom right corner. One of many pastel nudes by the artist who has done extensive work in the medium in addition to his o...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

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

Original Naïve Folk Art Oil Painting by Martin Saldaña – Whimsical Girl, Flowers
Located in Denver, CO
This enchanting original oil painting, Pinky, is a beautiful example of whimsical Naïve folk art by the artist Martin Saldaña. The artwork features a charming portrait of a young gir...
Category

1950s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

The Jungle, Acrylic Painting on Canvas by George Rhoads
By George Rhoads
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Rhoads, American (1926 - ) Title: The Jungle Year: 1968 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 54.5 x 72 in. (138.43 x 182.88 cm)
Category

1960s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

‘Young Woman And Vase’ by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Figurative Female Nude Model
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Young Woman and Vase", 2015 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Steven is now on...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Early 20th-Century English School, John Lovibond & Sons, Cannon Brewery, Fulham
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century English School oil painting depicts the Cannon Brewery at North End, Fulham, owned by John Lovibond & Sons Ltd. Founded in 1867, the brewery was bui...
Category

Early 1900s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Palm Hats (Colombia circa 1945), Silver Gelatin Photograph by Leo Matiz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leo Matiz, Colombian (1917 - 1998) Title: Palm Hats Year: circa 1945 (printed 1991) Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Signed in Pencil, verso Paper Size: 16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 c...
Category

1940s Folk Art Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

As In You
Located in Red Bank, NJ
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Wood Panel

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

DANCE OF THE MOTHS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
OIL ON CANVAS Ready to hang. Shipping from Belarus, Minsk. Natalia Ivanova is a well-known Belarusian painter working in the style of symbolic figurative art. Her paintings were exh...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Hungarian Rabbi Akiba Eger 19thC Judaica Folk Art Tapestry Needlepoint Sampler
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions board backing is 2 X 18.5 board opening is 16.5 X 13 inches 19th Century framed tapestry of a Rabbi, embroidered sampler, with beaded script below. (it reads J. Eger Oberlandes Rabbiner or Oberlander Rabbiner) There is some sort of texture and dimension to his fur hat (Shtreimel) and coat collar. This is being sold without the frame.. Rabbi Akiba Eger (5521-5598; 1761-1838) Rabbi Akiba Eger was one of the greatest scholars of his time, who had a great influence on Jewish life. He was born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, in the year 5521 (1761), nearly two hundred years ago. The city of his birth was a seat of learning for centuries, and his family was a family of scholars and Rabbis.Rabbi Akiba Eger, who was Rabbi in the famous community of Pressburg (also Hungary, but since 1913 it belonged to Czechoslovakia and was called Bratislava). He was invited to become Rabbi of the famous city of Posen, and in fact became the chief rabbi of the entire Posen province, though he did not carry that title. His famous son-in-law, Rabbi Moshe Sofer (known as the 'Chasam Sofer'), Rabbi of Pressburg, who had married Rabbi Akiba Eger's daughter. King Frederick III of Prussia honored him with a special medal. Rabbi Akiba Eger was recognized as a great authority on Jewish law, and many well known rabbis and Jewish leaders turned to him for advice and decisions on points of law. "This sort of art, craft work, emerges from a long tradition of Jewish folk art...
Category

Early 1900s Folk Art Art

Materials

Wool, Mixed Media, Thread

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...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Gouache

The Happy Inlaw, Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
Category

20th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed verso. Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 22x30 framed under glass 26x36...
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

"Kente Cloth, Ashanti Tribe Ghana, " Cotton Weaving created circa 1970
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This cotton fabric was made by an unknown Ashanti artist. It is mostly black and white. The Ashanti are a major ethnic group of the Akans in Ghana, a fairly new nation, barely more than 50 years old. Ghana, previously the Gold Coast, was a British colony until 1957. It is now politically separated into four main parts. Ashanti is in the center and Kumasi is the capital. The Ashanti have a wide variety of arts. Bark cloth was used for clothing before weaving was introduced. With weaving, there is cotton and silk. Women may pick cotton...
Category

1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Cotton

"Neapolitan Car, " Mixed-Media Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Fabric

Navigator, bright color oil painting of figure, boats, water
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*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...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Perch. Seated dark clothed female figure holding white large bird.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This whimsical work is an oil on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel suitable for framing. It is signed and dated by the artist on reverse side. The colors are warm greens a...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Bird On Flower, Aquatint Etching by Keiko Minami
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004) Title: Bird On Flower Year: circa 1985 Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12...
Category

1980s Folk Art Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Memories of Tuscany by Elaine Marshall, Linocut, Limited edition Print, Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Memories of Tuscany by Elaine Marshall [2022] limited_edition and hand signed by artist linocut with two blocks Edition number 3/50 Image size: H:31 cm x W:17 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:43 cm x W:31 cm x D:0.3cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look This is a linocut of a farmhouse in the hills near Lucca, where my family and artist friends spent happy times...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Paper, Linocut

Colorful Tapestry of an Abstract Woman in a Patchwork Garment Carrying a Basket
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract figurative tapestry of a woman carrying a harvest basket on her head by French outsider artist Cecile d’Apres Coraif. This work is a fantastic example of the collage fabric ...
Category

1960s Folk Art Art

Materials

Fabric

Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now" Ralph Fasanella (1914-_1997) "Victory and After,” gouache on paper. Signed, titled...
Category

1940s Folk Art Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Hitchhikers, turtle & boys children soft dreamy green colors bamboo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Imaginary story, fable or fairy tale-like narrative of young boys hitchhiking on the back of a turtle signed and dated on reverse side. ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly or...
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2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Textured Neutral Figurative Mixed Media Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Pink Mixed Media Portrait Painting by Cuban Artist Hector Frank. Unique Painting with a certificate of authenticity. Despite international acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost...
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2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

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

Nesting Wyverns
By Albert Hoffman
Located in Astoria, NY
Albert Hoffman (American, 1915-1993), Nesting Wyverns, Acrylic on Panel, 1974, depicting two wyverns by nest with eggs, signed and dated lower right, marked to verso, wood frame. Im...
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1970s Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

The Way We Were
Located in Red Bank, NJ
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture. Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scale relief sculpture features a carved rors...
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1990s Folk Art Art

Materials

Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Found Objects

Fish, Unique Found Object Wall Sculpture by Mr. Imagination
By Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mr. Imagination (aka Gregory Warmack), American (1948 - 2012) Title: Fish Year: circa 1985 Medium: Aluminum Collage with Bottle Caps Sculpture Size: 19.5 x 37.5 x 2 in. (49.5...
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1980s Folk Art Art

Materials

Metal

Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, Early American Portraiture, American Folk Art
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, c. 1820s Oil on Panel 24" x 19.5" Housed in a 3" Carved Frame Overall Size: 29" x 25 1/4" In excellent condition. Ready to hang and enjoy.
Category

Early 19th Century Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Three
Located in Red Bank, NJ
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Northern Fair: Contemporary Naive School Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Harking back to his roots in this picture Simeon Stafford has captured, in a whirling scene of colourful chaos all the elements that made travelling fairs such magical places for adu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Cliff Top Walk, Gordon Barker, Lighthouse painting, Coastal art, Folk art, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Cliff top walk by Gordon Barker [2019] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on paper Image size: H:29 cm x W:29 cm Complete Size of Unframed W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Tea at Sunset, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
As the sky darkens and fairy lights begin to glow, sunset marks the most magical time for tea parties. A mouse, rabbit, raccoon, and owl sit on mushrooms around...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Shoe repairman, colorful, character
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are...
Category

2010s Folk Art Art

Materials

Oil

Sunset on the River, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A boy and a bear sit back to back on a boat, one reading a book and the other blowing bubbles to a duck. Their quiet moment shows that friendship is a special k...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

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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