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Outsider and Self Taught Art For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1930s
Mid-Century Artisanal Crucifix
Located in Chicago, IL
This ceramic crucifix is a profound representation of mid-century modern European studio artistry. Handcrafted with precision and care, it reflects the era's characteristic blend of ...
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1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Modern Figurative Ceramic Cross
Located in Chicago, IL
This handcrafted ceramic cross is a vibrant exemplar of mid-century modern design, infused with the characteristic playfulness and colorfulness of the ...
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1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Midcentury Ceramic Wall Cross - Hand-Painted Studio Pottery, Europe
Located in Chicago, IL
This midcentury ceramic wall cross, created in a European Pottery Studio, features an uncomplicated design. The Christ silhouette relief on the cross is hand-painted, showcasing a gl...
Category
1950s European Arts and Crafts Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Architectural Devil with Pitchfork and Flames, Wall Decoration, Studio Pottery
Located in Chicago, IL
This ceramic wall decoration, a product of modernist Studio Pottery in Europe, portrays an architectural red devil holding a pitchfork amidst flames. The piece is characterized by vi...
Category
1950s European Brutalist Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Glossy Red Ceramic Cross with Abstract Matte Christ Figure in Earth Tones
Located in Chicago, IL
This evocative piece of mid-century European studio pottery features a ceramic cross with a human figure, presumed to be Jesus Christ, at its center. The figure is modestly adorned, ...
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1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Red-Brown Glossy Cross with Abstract Line Drawing Christ Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
Handcrafted with meticulous attention to detail, this midcentury European ceramic cross has a rich red-brown gloss. At its center an abstract line drawing of a Christ figure is etched in relief.
The design's core element is the line-drawn Christ figure and pays homage to the simplicity and complex abstraction of this figure, a nuanced representation of faith that goes beyond the boundaries of conventional religious...
Category
1950s European Brutalist Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
A rare and delightful pair of leather early 20th Century hand crafted apprentice shoes. One of the smallest examples we have seen to date.
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Category
1930s British Victorian Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Leather
Gouache Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Woman Helen Wagner Malta 1930s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
An early contemporary still-life Gouache portrait painting of a woman. On paper, this piece depicts a seated woman reclining in a pigmented blue chair. Her hair is short and dark and she wears a red dress. This sketch was created by Helen Wagner Malta and is signed at the bottom right in black ink "Helen Wagner" before her marriage. Her later works are signed "Helen Wagner Malta".
Helen Wagner Malta was born in 1912 and worked in New York City in the 1930s teaching at the Harlem Art...
Category
1930s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Outsider Art Hand-Carved "Shotgun Wedding" Tableau
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Crude hand-carved and painted wedding party figures (bride, groom, officiant - likely a preacher, and witness - presumably the father of the bride)...
Category
1930s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Cotton, Wood, Paint
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait of an American Soldier
Located in Van Nuys, CA
A small oil painting on canvas. It is a naive portrait of an American soldier in uniform. It appears to be framed in a handmade oak frame along with ...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Canvas, Oak
Handmade Helmet
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Great piece of Folk Art. Handmade metal helmet with leather flaps.
Category
1950s Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Steel
Folk Art "Standing Man" Carved Tree Branch Sculpture After Giocometti
By Giocometti
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charming little tree branch Folk Art sculpture hand-carved in the manner of Giocometti.
Category
1930s Unknown Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century English Scratch Built Toleware Horse and Cart Model
Located in London, GB
“Where thers muck thers money”
Early 20th century English scratch built toleware horse and cart model
A wonderful example of a unique Folk Art scratch-built horse and cart model. This item is made from metal sheets, toleware and old enamel advertising signs. It would likely have been placed on a shop counter to obtain donations from customers. The carts cover...
Category
1930s Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Tin
Anonymous Abstract Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boar...
Category
1950s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Wood
Anonymous Abstract Geometric Painted Board
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bold geometric abstract board found in Texas. We have a collection of these boards from an anonymous artist. Painted on recycled cupboard doors, table tops, stool tops and bread boar...
Category
1950s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Cubist Sculpture, circa 1930
Located in Houston, TX
Whimsical Art Deco patinated metal cubist sculpture, figure, or cardholder, circa 1930s. A fabulous Art Deco Folk Art sculpture!.
Category
1930s Unknown Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Metal
Female Bust Wire Art Sculpture
Located in Springfield, OR
Most certainly a one of a kind piece. A bent wire sculpture depicting a woman's head. Judging from the agr I would put this in the 1950s. Just a really fun piece of folk art to liven...
Category
1950s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
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19th Century POW Shoe Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
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We are proud to offer a 19th century POW carved wooden snuff box, The toenails have likely been replaced over time. T...
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Folk Art Gate in form of a Face
Located in Darnestown, MD
One of a kind iron gate in the shape of an elongated face. It would be functional as a gate but would also be terrific hung indoors as a piece of outsider art.
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Mid-Century Prison Art Box from Cigarette Packs
Located in Forney, TX
A rare vintage prison art box, mid-20th century, colorful round folk art box with removable lid, handmade from a large tin can and cigarette packs.
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1930s Dada Photomontage Collage in the Style of Hannah Höch
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Located in Las Vegas, NV
Charming photomontage collage of girls at play with dogs, cats and birds in foreground.
Whimsical happy work of art in the manner of Hannah Höch. Not sign...
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Sister Corita Kent 70's Serigraph with E.E. Cummings Poetry
By Sister Corita
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986) was known for her text-based pop influenced printmaking that conveyed her activism and spiritually-informed social...
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Vintage Monumental Carved Wood Tiki Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Offered here is a large vintage 1960s carved wood Tiki sculpture.
Classic style, giving you the feel of the tropics.
It's signed by the artist S.K.
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Wood
American Folk Art Cowboy and Horse Whirligig
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tall one of a kind cowboy and horse spinning whirligig American Folk Art piece. Most likely from a larger folk art environment. Sheet steel constructi...
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1940s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Iron, Sheet Metal
19th Century Napoleonic Prisoner of War Painted Casket Dominoes Set
Located in London, GB
19th Century Napoleonic Prisoner of War Painted Casket Dominoes Set
A stunning example of an early 19th century Napoleonic prisoner of war hand painted casket dominos set. One of th...
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F. Carlton Ball Midcentury Signed Ceramic Glazed California Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic, wonderfully glazed and textured Mid-Century Modern pottery bowl by renowned California master potter F. Carlton Ball.
Ball, who studied with Glen Lukens, taught at the University of Southern California between 1956-1967 and later at the University of Puget Sound...
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Mid 20th Century Folk Art Cowboy Rodeo Whirligig
Located in Nantucket, MA
Mid 20th century Folk Art cowboy Rodeo Whirligig, circa 1940s to 50s, comprising four carved and painted cowboys mounted on horseback riding in a circle a...
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Materials
Copper
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait of an American Soldier
Located in Van Nuys, CA
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Female Bust Wire Art Sculpture
Located in Springfield, OR
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Early 20th Century Hand Carved Folk-art Bird Figures
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Hand Carved Folk-art bird figures
A highly decorative set of 5 hand carved folk-art early 20th Century bird figures. Sat on branche...
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Stephen JM Palmer Jesus with Hands Outsider Art Painting
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This vibrant gouache painting was done by obsessive outsider artist Stephen JM Palmer (1882-1965) sometime between 1955 and 1965.
Palmer was a farm laborer and logger in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota. After he was injured in a logging accident in the 1930s, he broke off from the Catholic Church to join a Christian fringe group and later established a circle of followers to listen to his visions and prophecies. Towards the end of his life, he obsessively turned out images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. These visions were expressed in wild geometric designs which used the psychedelic visual language of the period, more often associated with the rock and roll posters...
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Materials
Paper
Stephen JM Palmer Gossip Town Outsider Art Painting
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This vibrant gouache painting was done by obsessive outsider artist Stephen JM Palmer (1882-1965) sometime between 1955 and 1965.
Palmer was a farm laborer and logger in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota. After he was injured in a logging accident in the 1930s, he broke off from the Catholic Church to join a Christian fringe group and later established a circle of followers to listen to his visions and prophecies. Towards the end of his life, he obsessively turned out images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. These visions were expressed in wild geometric designs which used the psychedelic visual language of the period, more often associated with the rock and roll posters...
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Tramp Art Notched and Layered Cigarette Box with Slide-Off Top American, c. 1930
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Tramp Art Box of pyramid form, notched and layered wood from cigar boxes, with the original light and darker brown and black paint surface, with a slide-off top, American, ca. 1930. ...
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1930s American Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
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H 5 in W 7.5 in D 7.5 in
Early 20th Century Scratch Build Fairground Amusement Arm
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century scratch build fairground amusement arm
We are proud to offer an unusual English fairground sculptural object, In the form of a fully extendable hand carved scratc...
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1930s British Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
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Erzgebirge German Folk-Art Candle Holder Figure
Located in London, GB
Erzgebirge German folk-art candle holder figure
A rare early 20th century hand carved folk-art Erzgebirge German miner soldier candle holder figure. made from pine and still with al...
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Pine
Early 20th Century Hand Carved Oak Folk-Art European Wagon Cart Panel
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century hand carved oak folk-art European wagon cart panel
We are proud to offer a highly unusual piece of early 20th Century hand carved a...
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1930s German Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Oak, Paint
Stephen JM Palmer Sacred Heart My Mother My Confidence Outsider Art Painting
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This vibrant gouache painting was done by obsessive outsider artist Stephen JM Palmer (1882-1965) sometime between 1955 and 1965.
Palmer was a farm laborer and logger in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota. After he was injured in a logging accident in the 1930s, he broke off from the Catholic Church to join a Christian fringe group and later established a circle of followers to listen to his visions and prophecies. Towards the end of his life, he obsessively turned out images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. These visions were expressed in wild geometric designs which used the psychedelic visual language of the period, more often associated with the rock and roll posters...
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1950s American Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
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H 33.75 in W 26 in D 1.75 in
Md-20th Century Scratch Build Figure
Located in London, GB
Md-20th century scratch build figure
We are proud to offer “You seen bolt” a mid-20th century fork art scratch-built figure of a fisherman. Made from old nuts and bolts this unusual...
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1950s British Folk Art Vintage Outsider and Self Taught Art
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Amazing Clown Shoes
Located in London, GB
The amazing clown shoes
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Rare South African Folk Art Carved Storyboard Panel, circa 1930s
Located in Peabody, MA
A rare relief carved and pigmented wooden storyboard panel detailing events of the late 19th and early 20th century related to South Africa’s Zulu history and the Boer Wars. Atop this folk art panel, dated 1937, is a depiction of two heroes of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger...
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