Folk Art Art

During the 1960s America’s storytelling sculptor, Michael Garman, lived a vagabond lifestyle on the cheap and in the run-down neighborhoods of Dallas, S...

A moving and authentic 1920s Mexican Ex-Voto retablo painting depicting a heartfelt prayer of gratitude for a safe return home. Hand-painted in oil on tin, this devotional folk art p...

C. Jeré ( or Curtis Jere) is a metalwork artist of wall sculptures and household accessories. C. Jeré works are made by Artisan House. Curtis Jere is a compound nom de plume of artis...

This carved wood sculpture, a "Garuda Head," was made by an unknown Indonesian sculpture. The face sculpture is 12 1/2" x 9". The Garuda is a legendary bird or bird-like creature in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain mythology. He is variously the vehicle mount (vahana) of the Hindu god Vishnu, a dharma-protector and Astasena in Buddhism, and the Yaksha of the Jain Tirthankara...

Afterword. Nr. 2. 1984. Paper, linocut, 20x34 cm imprint size 12x25 cm total page size 20x34cm Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018) Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of folklore and fic...

Tighe O'Donaghue's abstract print features a swirling pattern encircled with simple, crude linework that merges into a loose rectangle that frames the composition. Lunar Abstract T...

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...

Ted Jeremenko, Yugoslavian/American (1938 - ) - A Sleeping Place. Year: 1986, Medium: Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76...

Bic ballpoint pen on recycled cardboard Unique work Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist Coming from the artist's studio

An extraordinary dated 1878 Mexican ex-voto retablo commemorating a miraculous recovery from life-threatening fevers, hand-painted in oil on tin by an anonymous folk artist. Rich in ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Alligator. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 5.5 x 8 inches, Size: 10.5 x 15 in. (26.67 x 3...

This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 19" high, was used in Indonesian Wayang puppet shows. Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art found in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, wherein a dramatic story is told through shadows thrown by puppets and sometimes combined with human characters. The art form celebrates the Indonesian culture and artistic talent; its origins are traced to the spread of Hinduism in the medieval era and the arrival of leather-based puppet arts called Tholu bommalata from southern India. Wayang refers to the entire dramatic show. Sometimes the leather puppet...

Acrylic, dye, pencil on canvas.

"Tin Can Hands" 1995 by Mason Rader A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a B...

Pair of large Chinese wood geese. Rare early 20th Century hand carved exotic wood and polychrome, heavy geese sculptures with beautiful earthy colors. ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Clown on Horse from A Little Circus. Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: HC, Size: 15 ...

The sunshine just flows from this canvas, all of us have a happy place we can retreat to and recharge. In Wales from mountains to coast there's a plethora of happy places to discover...

Embroidered textile painting Unique work, hand-signed by the artist Penelope or Parque of modern times, Barbara d’Antuono sews by hand like others recite mantras and decides nothing in advance. She lets images arise without any particular coherence with each other, but to which she gives substance in a kind of urgency, in the form of a strip not drawn but sewn. The exhibition, like the eponymous book, covers seven years of this assiduous and patient work through nearly 30 textile works, real freeze frames made of the emotions and memories of the artist, like so many portraits of humanity. . Her meeting in Haiti with Baron Samedi...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Food Sellers in the Market, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm), Des...

This piece weaves climbing rope in with glass knots. Each piece is unique and slightly different. The cord is retired climbing rope, given another use by shining in this piece. Rob...

Rare and unusual antique Chinese ginger jar handcrafted in a cloisonne technique, decorated with fauna, flora, and tassels on an alluring blue background, featuring a removable head ...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - Apple Blossom Time, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Size: 22 in. x 26 in. (55.88 cm x 66...

Olga Fisch was born in Hungary, studied in Germany and lived in Morocco and Ethiopia before receiving asylum as a Jewish refugee in Ecuador in 1939. For her Indian-inspired designs, Mrs. Fisch uses natural black and white sheep...

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Southwest Balloons, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, AP 30, Image Size: 18 x 24 inches, Siz...

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

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...

Kay Ameche, American (1904 - 2005) - A Day on the Farm, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP 40, Image Size: 17 x 22 inches, Size: 22...

Striking Tanzanian painting on canvas executed in the distinctive Tinga Tinga style, using bicycle paint as a medium, depicting animals in a landscape with a blazing sunset. Signed M...

David is the son of Max Alvarez who studied under Felipe Benito Archuleta. Felipe Archuleta is known to be the patriarch of modern New Mexico wood carv...

Astian Rey "ADAM AND EVE"

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...

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

Richly textured with whimsical appeal, this late 20th century wooden crow is a delightful example of naive American sculpture. Poised mid-caw, the crow's wings are outstretched, read...

"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...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Belly Dancer, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.44 cm), Description: An unfinished oil painti...

REX BANDY Untitled Tempera on panel 21.5 x 14.5 inches Framed: 22.5 x 15.5 inches

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Salt and Grain Sellers, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Descripti...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Street Scene 2, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Description: An o...

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

Jack Hofflander, American (1920 - 2003) - Balloon Trips, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, HC, Image Size: 19 x 26 inches, Size: 21.5 in. x 28 in. (54.61 cm x 71.12 cm), Description: In this fantastical scene depicting dozens of hot-air balloons filling the sky, Jack Hofflander showcases his childlike imagination and mastery of landscape painting. Flying high through the air, balloon baskets...

Statue of Liberty by Vick Vibha Date: 1978 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 150, AP 20 Size: 26 in. x 20 in. (66.04 cm x 50.8 cm)

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Night Birds with Flowers. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 17 x 25.5 inches, S...

This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 26" high with movable arms, was used in Indonesian Wayang Klitik...

Artist: Pitaloosie Saila - Inuit (1942-2021) Title: Baby Talelaya’s First Ride Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper Date: 1991 Image size: 15 x 20 inches Sheet size: 22.5 x 30 inche...

Mario Teles de Oliveira Wood Sculpture Artist: Mario Teles de Oliveira – Brazilian (1942- ) Title: Untitled, Procession of Ten Men Year: ca. 1990 Medium: Wood, probably red cedar S...

Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Preparing Food, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm), Description: An...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Petite Portrait - Woman in Gown with Cat. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 8 x 6 inches, Siz...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Butterfly. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 20 x 14 inches, Size: 29.5 x 21 in...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - King Solomon, Portfolio: Song of Songs, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Size: 30 x 21 in...

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...

Folk art, Naive, Latin American art , Family portrait in the style of a Chinese ancestor portrait. Maria Teresa Vieco is a Colombian artist born in 1953 in Bogota. She studied at th...

Stunning carved stone bird mounted on Quartz specimen. Carved from orange Calcite and trimmed in Lapis, having tiger eye beaks. This exotic bird is a brilliant decorative combination...

Standout mid century life size frog sculpture or object of art handcrafted in silver plate on bronze with a tortoise shell terrazzo back. Signed Maitland Smith on the bottom.

Early 20th century watercolour and gouache of a horse and trap. Signed to the bottom left but artist unknown. This dynamic artwork showcases a striking horse pulling a two-wheeled c...

Acrylic

Born in 1979 San Diego based artist Mike Maxwell has built a loyal following with his signature stone-blue faces, gloomy churches & beautiful windmills. Self-taught & continuously im...

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...

Wild Horses by Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian (1920–2005) Date: circa 1975 Oil on Canvas, signed lower right Size: 48 x 60 in. (121.92 x 152.4 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 68.5 inches

MALCAH ZELDIS Bull gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; 1931) is an American folk art painte...

Untitled - Three Stars Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1981 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Size: 28 x 22 in. (71.12 x 55.88 cm)