Outsider and Self Taught Art

Vintage Retro Nostalgia Coke Cooler designed in 1992 by Paul Flum Ideas Inc. and painted with acrylic and permanent marker by folk artist Howard Finster...

Folk Art Halloween display pumpkin form We are proud to offer a unique example of a mid-20th century handcrafted folk-art Halloween display pumpkin. Constructed of metal segment she...

The Folk Art Mr. Bear We are proud to offer a wonderful example of a mid-20th century Folk Art figure of a charming bear. Made from a light wood hand carved body, sheet metal legs, ...

English Folk Art carved cocker spaniel plaque, circa 1949 A wonderfully detailed hand carved cocker spaniel dog plaque with unusually ornate dated reverse ...

Unique boot makers shop advertising sign We are proud to offer a unique early 20th century 3-dimensional hand painted bootmakers/cobblers advertising trade sign. Made from old war d...

Scratch built train steam engine with trailer dated, circa 1945 We are proud to offer a folk-art English scratch built tin and wood steam train and trailer model. A wonderfully aged...

Vintage illuminating diorama of countryside small town, Fort Devens, Massachusetts and surrounding countryside. Appears to be a model of the early or original constructed fort. Fort Devens was a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts...

Primitive painting of farmhouse scene on corrugated tin.

A whimsical wood figure of a nude woman by the noted NJ artist Fred Schumm. It is signed and dated on the bottom Schumm 95. The base has been re-painted and has some losses to the corners. A brief statement by the artist from 2007 follows; Fred Schumm does not view life through rose-colored glasses. He doesn't have to. Schumm, Rowan University's artist-in-residence, is a former U.S. Marine who lived through some of the most horrific battles of World War II. He served at Peleliu two months of carnage on a tiny Pacific atoll where 12,000 perished - and then four long months on the bloodied isle of Okinawa. Since then, Schumm, 82, has mostly tried to see life's beauty. It's sort of like how sunlight, warm but ordinary to the naked eye, is refracted into myriad, impossibly beautiful combinations of color when viewed through a kaleidoscope. And, like sunlight, he finds art everywhere. "Inspiration is all around but mostly I'm inspired by the ancients," Schumm said recently. "I love Prehistoric African carvings, the works of ancient Greeks, Japanese and Chinese. I especially love Eskimo work." The celebrated sculptor loves Eskimo work so much he once hitchhiked from his home state of Colorado to Alaska just to see native carvings. "I wanted to see the TOTEM poles," he said. "The Alaskan Indians were fantastic artists." Schumm, artist-in-residence since 2003, works with various hardwoods, stone, even metals. A studio in which he works at Westby Hall has pieces in various stages of completion, from an eight-foot-tall, stainless steel sculpture he calls "Aviary" to a solid, six-foot log of black locust...

Signed oil painting of bare armed young American man seated with his head resting on his hand. Framed in painted wooden frame with gold leaf liner. Signature is not clear. Image siz...

Double-sided, solid hand-cut steel trade sign for a "modern" beauty shop run by two gals, "Sophie & Moxie". Painted surface is rust-spotted and weathered t...

An amazing collection of 6 original figural drawings on paper circa 1940 - - 3 female and 3 male characters 'modeling' fantasy couture in kaleidoscopic colors. Executed in a Constructivist style with a hint of 1940s WPA poster...