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American "Human Effigy" Female Stone Sculpture, Tennessee, 1000 AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
A Native American Human Effigy female statue, Holliston Mills Site, Tennessee , sandstone, circa
Category

Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Native American Objects

Materials

Sandstone

Antique Running Horse Copper Weather Vane on Base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century copper weather vane on hand-forged iron stand. From western Tennessee.
Category

Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Weathervanes

Materials

Copper, Iron

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
, Chattanooga, Tennessee Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
, Chattanooga, Tennessee Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey Grounds
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Art, Gainesville, Florida Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Hunterdon Art Museum
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Glazed Pottery Chawan Yunomi Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
, Florida Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Pottery

19th C Punched Tin Cross Flags Pie Safe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
found in East Tennessee and is in fine condition. The condition is very good and it is in working order
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century American Adirondack Painted Furniture

Materials

Metal

19th C Punched Tin Cross Flags Pie Safe
19th C Punched Tin Cross Flags Pie Safe
H 54.5 in W 40.5 in D 15 in
Hand-Pained Banner with the Seal of the State of Mississippi, circa 1872
Located in York County, PA
example turned up in Tennessee. The two states border one-another in their northeast / southwest corners
Category

Antique 1870s American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Materials

Cotton

American Folk Art Limestone Carving Snake, Shield and Stump
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Detailed American Folk Art limestone carving of a rattle snake wrapped around a tree stump and
Category

Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Animal Sculptures

Materials

Limestone

'Blind Folly' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
. In 1964, she was born in Oxford, Mississippi and grew up in Auburn, Alabama. Visual art was always a
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media

Modernist Folk Art Acrylic on Canvas "Quincy Market" W.N.Y. Artist George Grace
Located in Buffalo, NY
coined to describe the art of George Grace: technoluminism. Applying the idea of the “Civilized
Category

Vintage 1980s American Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

'Bass Fishing with Naiads' - mixed media collage - Southern Art - Marc Chagall
By Blair Hobbs
Located in Atlanta, GA
art was always a necessary form of communication, and her interest in storytelling led her to graduate
Category

2010s Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media

Sailor's Woolwork of a Confederate & British Ship Passing on the High Seas
Located in Downingtown, PA
were added after Virginia and Arkansas seceded. North Carolina and Tennessee were the final 2 states to
Category

Antique 1860s Folk Art Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

Cupid (Red Figure)
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Woodcut

Cupid (Blue Figure)
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Woodcut

Day of Drogo
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

Crossing the Line
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

So Much to Forgive
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

How Fast the Time
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

Back Where I Belong
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

Fish Brothers
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

Skull Portal B
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

Skull Portal A
Located in New Orleans, LA
decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs
Category

2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Woodcut

JoyLand II
By Hollie Chastain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
and has a passion for folk art and self-taught artists. Her first book, If You Can Cut You Can Collage
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Photographic Paper

JoyLand I
By Hollie Chastain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
and has a passion for folk art and self-taught artists. Her first book, If You Can Cut You Can Collage
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Photographic Paper, Paper

Winter Walk with Jasper, (Black Cat painting)
By Sterling Boyd Strauser
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
) completed his first oil painting in 1922- inspired by frequent visits to the collection of American folk art
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Martini Mosaic #1 Acrylic on Canvas Lattice of Tiny Lines Squares Depth Texture
Located in Houston, TX
Born in Honduras, Central America, his fascination with art started at a very young age. He would spend
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Acrylic, Canvas

Martini Mosaic #3 Acrylic on Canvas Lattice of Tiny Lines Squares Depth Texture
Located in Houston, TX
, his fascination with art started at a very young age. He would spend countless hours tracing his
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Panel

Martini Mosaic #2 Acrylic on Canvas Lattice of Tiny Lines Squares Depth Texture
Located in Houston, TX
, his fascination with art started at a very young age. He would spend countless hours tracing his
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Panel

Monday
By Cara Lynch
Located in Nashville, TN
pieces that have been described as folk, outsider, or naive art. Themes in his work frequently relate to
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Fallout
By Cara Lynch
Located in Nashville, TN
pieces that have been described as folk, outsider, or naive art. Themes in his work frequently relate to
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Fallout
H 14 in W 11 in
9 Foot Sack
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

9 Foot Sack
9 Foot Sack
H 24 in W 21 in D 1.25 in
Bentonia Blues, Bentonia, MS
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Junior Kimbrough Series: Dancers at Junior’s III
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Charles Cadillas Cadwell
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

BB King, Club Ebony, Indianola, MS, 1994
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Will Ed Clemons, New Albany, MS, 2000
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hellhound
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jimmy and Friend
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jimmy and Friend
Jimmy and Friend
H 31.5 in W 30.5 in D 1 in
Junkin’ at Thompson Grocery
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Deacon Allen Moore
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last
Category

2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Deacon Allen Moore
Deacon Allen Moore
H 24 in W 21 in D 1.5 in
"Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair" Joseph Delaney, African-American
Located in New York, NY
shipping, to have Beauford's art and personal effects shipped to the U.S. The University of Tennessee
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee; Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Conté

1991 Irregular Blue Buie Studio Pottery Bud Vase
Located in San Carlos, CA
Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1991' This vase is in excellent condition, see pictures for details.
Category

1990s American Folk Art Pottery

Materials

Pottery

Johnny La Vie en Rock French Edition Paper Back Johnny Hallyday French Rock Star
Located in North Hollywood, CA
theater for the first time in 2011 with Tennessee Williams' "Paradise on Earth." In this comprehensive
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French Folk Art Books

Materials

Paper

Rare Early American Country Pyrography Desk
Located in Forney, TX
wonderful museum quality example of folk art furniture, in great original unrestored antique condition
Category

Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood

19th Century Gilt and Gesso Frame attributed to President James Polk Estate
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Early 19th century gilt and gesso picture frame. Found at an estate sale in Columbia, Tennessee
Category

Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

John Baeder’s Road Well Taken Book by Jay Williams
Located in New York, NY
catalogs in the fields of American impressionist and modernist painting, Southern folk art, and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Books

Materials

Paper

Handmade Artisan Doll Torture "Rack"
Located in Nashville, TN
As the story goes, a fine Tennessee dollhouse maker meticulously crafted working torture devices
Category

20th Century American Toys

Materials

Wood, String

Handmade Artisan Doll Torture "Rack"
Handmade Artisan Doll Torture "Rack"
H 8 in W 22.75 in D 7 in
Barber Shop Trade Sign
Located in Hadley, MA
and wire. Found in Tennessee.
Category

Antique 19th Century Signs

Materials

Pine

Barber Shop Trade Sign
Barber Shop Trade Sign
H 9.5 in W 24 in D 0.75 in
William Edmondson Carved Limestone Birdbath
Located in 3 Oaks, MI
Born in 1874 to former slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee (near Nashville), William Edmondson
Category

Vintage 1930s Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings

Materials

Limestone

Handmade Artisan Working Doll Guillotine
Located in Nashville, TN
As the story goes, a fine Tennessee dollhouse maker meticulously crafted working torture devices
Category

Vintage 1950s American Outsider and Self Taught Art

Materials

Wood, String

President Andrew Jackson Textile 1824
Located in Acworth, GA
Tennessee State Museum’s Andrew Jackson A Portrait Study. This engraving is also pictured on pages 224-225
Category

Antique 1820s American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia

Materials

Cotton

First Love; William Cross (American 1957 - 2015); carved mountain talc stone
By William Cross
Located in Los Angeles, CA
have been discovered and are being sought by folk art collectors through out the country. He has had
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone

African Honey Pot- Ambrosia Maple & Cocobolo Wood, Hand Carved with Lid
Located in Charlotte, NC
in Tennessee and the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. His work is held in the private
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Homage to Sharecroppers- The 8 Rings of The Hub of 1 Wagon Wheel, Glossed Maple
Located in Charlotte, NC
continents. Using hand-selected woods, Farrar creates fine art vessels that hold and emotionally convey
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Maple

Deep Green Hued, Hand Carved & Hammered Maple Wood Vessel with Lid
Located in Charlotte, NC
continents. Using hand-selected woods, Farrar creates fine art vessels that hold and emotionally convey
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Maple

Hollow Vessel w/ Apple Tree Twig Lid- Hand Carved Glossed Golden Mahogany Vessel
Located in Charlotte, NC
regularly teaches at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee and the John C. Campbell Folk School
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

"Rare Sighting: A Nest of Tree Eggs"- Holly Scalloped Bowl w/ Seven Tree Eggs
Located in Charlotte, NC
continents. Using hand-selected woods, Farrar creates fine art vessels that hold and emotionally convey
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

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    Yes, mandala art is folk art. The definition of folk art is art that reflects the sociocultural characteristics and values of a particular group of people. Mandala art fits this definition due to its association with the Hindu and Buddhist faiths. On 1stDibs, explore a selection of folk art from some of the world's top sellers.
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    Mexican folk art can be characterized by vibrant colored paintings and jewelry designed with floral motifs. Lush forests and animals, especially birds, are featured in Mexican folk art, which is a blend of Indigenous and European methods and skills. You’ll find a variety of Mexican folk art from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019

    Among the materials used in folk art are cloth, wood, paper, clay and metal.

  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Jamini Roy was an Indian artist whose paintings often reflected his Indian roots. Roy combined imagery from Indian folk art with Western motifs to create his unique modern works. Subjects ranged from paintings of legendary figures to everyday life in rural Bengal. His goal was to make art affordable to everyone. Browse a selection of Jamini Roy paintings on 1stDibs.