Sita Devi was born in 1914, in the Jitwarpur, Madhubani district, India. She was famous for drawing in the Bjarni style, which involves outlining the subject in black and filling the areas with color. Sita Devi was the first to bring the intricate Bharni style of Madhubani painting out of village homes and into urban drawing rooms which had fetched her the Padma Shri in 1981. She was honored for the first time with a state award in 1969 and the national award in 1975. Sita Devi’s collectors included the first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Lalit Narayan Mishra. According to her eldest son, Ram Dev, she was regarded as the mother at Jitwarpur village for her social commitment. It was because of Sita Devi that the village first had a primary school. Madhubani painting, also called Mithila painting, is a unique style of painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Nepal and Indian States of Bihar. Painting is done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens and matchsticks, using natural dyes and pigments and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns. Traditionally the paintings were drawn on interior walls in the village houses by Hindu women of the Brahmin and Kyshath castes who handed down their visual knowledge from one generation to the next. The folk paintings represent a variety of symbolic meanings mainly associated with the celebration of fertility in Madhubani weddings and seasonal rituals, but also include the major gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, in particular, Sita, the wife of the god Ram and a central figure in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Her artwork finds a place in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the Mithila Museum in Japan and many other international institutions.
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
By Sita Devi
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...
Handmade Paper, Watercolor
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 17.25 in W 23.25 in D 0.75 in
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits In this scene, people are carrying baskets to the village, through dense foliage. There are...
Ink, Handmade Paper
$3,500
H 23.75 in W 18 in
'Mending', African American Woman Folk Artist, Houston, Dallas, Blues Museum Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989. Ruth Mae McCrane taught...
Paper, Gouache
$760Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 30 in D 0.25 in
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village by Manuel Remigio S. In this scene, people are working in a village. Interspersed throughout th...
Ink, Handmade Paper
$1,200
H 15 in W 16.5 in
Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Framed to 15 X 16.5 sheet is 9 ...
Paper, Gouache
$1,400
H 37 in W 28 in D 2 in
Festividades Virgen de Guadalupe / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Alejandro Diaz Nava
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Alejandro Diaz Nava Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 28" x 37" x 2" in or 72 x 93 x 4 cm - Weigh...
Paint, Paper, Watercolor
$1,000
H 20 in W 28 in
Fiesta en Xalitla / Amate Paper Mexican Folk Art Painting Frame
By Edalinda Perez Velazquez
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE! Artisan: Edalinda Perez Velazquez Picture painting with Chinese ink and acrylics over Amate Paper. - Dimensions: 28" x 20" x 2" in or 72 x 51 x 4 cm - ...
Paint, Paper, Watercolor
$4,000
H 29 in W 34.5 in
Lovers In The Field, Folk Art Watercolor by George Chemeche
By George Chemeche
Located in Long Island City, NY
A vibrant, figurative, romantic watercolor folk art piece for discerning collectors. Lovers In The Field by George Chemeche, Israeli/American (1934) Date: 1973 Watercolor on Paper ...
Watercolor, Paper
$48,000
H 20 in W 24.38 in
Madeline and the Magician, Madeline's Christmas.
By Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898-1962
Located in Miami, FL
Little Madeline is at it again, but this time with a big magician cloaked in a commanding red gown. In the Christmas spirit of giving, Madeline reaches up and offers him a plate of n...
Paper, Illustration Board, Gouache, Watercolor, Casein, Mixed Media
$75,000
H 34 in W 44 in D 2 in
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
By Ralph Fasanella
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" 27 x 37 inches Gouache on paper S...
Gouache, Paper
Daisy May Knew Henry Rousseau
By Jocelyn Prosser
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another very pretty collage work influenced by Rousseau from the studio of this talented Welsh artist. Image 16" x 16" Framed 22" x 22"
Watercolor, Magazine Paper
$1,600
H 19.5 in W 25.5 in
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era.T...
Gouache
Man with Big Smile - New Yorker Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
If a smile is an expression of momentary happiness, then the female in this cartoon appears driven to turn a moment into a more extended period of time. Leave it to Gahan Wilson to ...
Pen, Watercolor, Ink, Paper