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Style: Folk Art
Amble, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A solitary horse stands prominently against a cream-colored background. Created with multiple layers of oil paint, the artwork boasts a unique texture, reveal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Oil
Rider, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth depicts a sturdy white stallion with its face out of frame. A girl with a red skirt—also obscured from perspective—stands on its ba...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Oil
Original 1949 Painted Ceramic Tile Flowers Hand Painting Grandma Moses Folk Art
By Grandma Moses
Located in Surfside, FL
Dogwood Blossoms. 1949.
Dimensions: Tile 6 X 6 Frame 7.75 X 7.75 inches.
Provenance: The tile was in the possession of the Beers family and is from the estate.
Catalogue raisonné number at Galerie St Etienne: Kallir T #87
An exceedingly rare, authenticated, and hand painted floral decorated tile by Grandma Moses herself, fired by Helen Beers. Tile dated 1949 and signed moses recto as well as 'Moses Fired by Helen C. Beers, painted by Grandma Moses, Pinewold Pottery'. There are only a handful of these known to exist, approximately five, this being one of those five, outside the private collection of Galerie St. Etienne, Manhattan NY.
This listing is for the tile only. The photo archive, from the family, will be listed separately and is included here just for provenance and reference.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860 – 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis. In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: "The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring ... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild."
Moses's work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards. In 2006, her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1.36 million, setting an auction record for the artist. Her work is fundamental for any Naive art or Americana collection.
She was known as either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses", and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses", the press dubbed her "Grandma Moses", and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918 she used house paint to decorate a fireboard. Beginning in 1932, Moses used yarn to embroider pictures for friends and family. She created quilt objects, a form of "hobby art". Lucy R. Lippard stated in "The Word in Their Hands" that she found "hobby art" to be "an activity so 'low' on the art lists that it still ranks way below 'folk art'". She found that hobby art often involves reuse of otherwise discarded objects.
Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles.
Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life.
During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, saw paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings...
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1940s Folk Art More Art
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Ceramic, Paint
Americana 1848 pokerwork pyrography panel Prophet or Gospel writer Pennsylvania
Located in Norwich, GB
a wonderful antique pokerwork/pyrography panel by I W Wells, an American artist who flourished between 1845 - 1880. He was active in Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, yet most of his work is conserved in the Pinto Collection, which is part of the Birmingham Museums Trust in the UK. A portrait of Tennyson by Wells is in the Virginia State...
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1840s Folk Art More Art
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Wood Panel, Etching
Wedding Chest of Corinne de Blaru, French 19th Century Folk Art Painted
Located in Cotignac, FR
Vintage French folk art, Early 19th century, painted wood wedding, hope or bridal chest, for the wedding of Charles Herbert Frederic and Corinne de Blaru in 1848. The names and dates...
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Early 19th Century Folk Art More Art
Materials
Iron
Vintage wood face mask, dark brown
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage wood mask. The edge undulates and is lightweight. Date and artist unknown.
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wood
$276 Sale Price
35% Off
Pony Express, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A black horse with white spots gallops with all its might, following the outlined route in the background. The painting carries a whimsical tone with its colo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Cat on Yellow, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A cat with striking blue eyes crouches against a vibrant yellow background. Bold, thick black lines outline its body, giving it a playful, cartoonish feel. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Diamante / Textiles Mexican Folk Art Rug
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
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Artisan: Pedro Mendoza Gutierrez
MASTERPIECE
Rug made in treadle loom with Wool threads dyeing with natural tints: huizache, cochineal, indigo, pericon...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
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Wool, Cotton
$3,000 Sale Price
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Rare Folk Art Hebrew Judaica Carved Gilded Wood Lions Torah Synagogue Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Paint and gold paint on wood
Circa early to mid 20th century.
This is not signed
A treasure from a proud congregation. It is a hand-carved wooden sculpture showing the Tablets of the Law flanked by two Lions of Judah. Their paws held the tablets. Their roaring mouths faced outward, protecting the commandments from threats. In a foliage design with gold and silver paint.
Circa 1920-1940's. This Neoclassical, Judaic, Art Deco, Egyptian revival, Shul, Aron Kodesh hand carving, wood with gilding, Hebrew lettering ten commandments sign sculpture, was produced probably in New York.
There was a show at the Folk Art Museum titled “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” That featured these antique magnificent pieces. From gilded lions to high-stepping horses, the sacred to the secular, and the Old World to the New, “Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel” traces the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and other artisans from Eastern and Central Europe to America and the unsung role they played in establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the United States. The exuberant artworks stand as a testament to a history of survival and transformation and provide a surprising revelation of the link that was forged between the synagogue and the carousel as immigrant Jewish artists transferred symbolic visual elements into this vernacular American idiom. The first major study of this important aspect of the Jewish contribution to American folk art, the exhibition features approximately one hundred artworks and objects, including rare documentary photographs of Eastern European synagogue arks and carved gravestones, sacred carvings, papercuts, and carousel animals. Some of these same Jewish European carvers worked on Coney Island amusement park rides and carousel horses and other carnival and circus carvings.
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Early 20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Metal
El Sol / Textiles Mexican Folk Art Rug
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
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Artisan: Pedro Mendoza Gutierrez
MAIN MASTERPIECE
EXPOSITION "MANOS Y ALMA DE OAXACA” Mexico City 2016
Rug made in treadle loom with Wool threads dyein...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
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Wool, Cotton
$3,300 Sale Price
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Pair Tiki Ceramic Figures
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of Tiki ceramic figures by artist Howard Pierce (1912-1994). Howard Pierce's artistry is cherished among collectors, a following he gained in over 5...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
Materials
Clay
Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Lion Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel
By Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
This tapestry depicts a Lion, In Hebrew Mazel Aryeh (the Zodiac symbol Leo,) all handmade. woven and stitched.
Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין) (1923–1990) was an Israeli tapest...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wool, Felt
Whispers of Blue, Oil Painting
By Karen Barton
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Delicate blue butterflies flit across a softly textured neutral background. Subtle black outlines define their fragile forms, while their rhythmic repetition cr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Oil
Palomino, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A brown horse with a white tail and mane dips its nose into a black bag dangling from its head. The name Palomino appears above, hinting at a story. Layers of a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
"Kente Cloth Ashanti Tribe, Ghana, " Silk and Cotton Weaving created circa 1970
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This silk and cotton fabric was made by an unknown Ashanti artist. It features green and orange accents. The Ashanti are a major ethnic group of the Akans in Ghana, a fairly new nation, barely more than 50 years old. Ghana, previously the Gold Coast, was a British colony until 1957. It is now politically separated into four main parts. Ashanti is in the center and Kumasi is the capital.
The Ashanti have a wide variety of arts. Bark cloth was used for clothing before weaving was introduced. With weaving, there is cotton and silk. Women may pick cotton...
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1970s Folk Art More Art
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Cotton, Silk
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool Folk Art Rug Weaving Wall Hanging Olga Fisch
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
Olga Fisch ( American 1901-1990)
Hummingbird and Pendant Flower, hand woven and stitched wool and sequins, signed lower right.
Dimensions: 58 x 32 in.
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...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wool
Dog Ball Bird, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth captures a clever brown dog skillfully balancing a red ball and a black bird on its head. With curious gazes, the critters turn to their right as if something has piqued their interest. The two-tone backdrop of ochre and moss green sets the stage for this endearing scene.
About the Artist
Jaime Ellsworth paints animals. Her career as a cowhand never got off the ground, so she stumbled into art never knowing it would complement her passion for animals so completely. Most subjects are her own, but lately she has expanded out of her corral to include bears and beasts not commonly seen on San Juan Island, in the Pacific Northwest, where she's lived for the last 30 years. She suspects it will be years before she runs out of inspiration or has jeans that aren’t covered with paw prints or paint.
Words that describe this painting: dog, bird, ball, whimsical, happy, playful, animals, acrylicpaint, portrait, profile, primitive, animals, primitive, acrylic painting, brown
Dog Ball...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Messages to a Sun God, Contemporary Quilt
By Bethan Ash
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bethan Ash is a professional quilt maker and teacher with a background in Fashion design. She has exhibited widely and her work has been bought by museums in the UK and USA, includin...
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Early 2000s Folk Art More Art
Fox Under Pink Moon, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"With the world asleep, the fox's senses are awakened," says artist Jessica JH Roller. Running free through the crisp evening air, the nocturnal creature frol...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Yellow Springs Deer Family, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this whimsical painting, a family of deer roams around a nature reserve. An owl perches on one of the trees, silently observing the woodland activity. A profusion of flowers adorn the scene, adding to the charm of the composition.
About the Artist
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints whimsical and playful compositions of animals and people, marked by bold colors and primitivist linework. She distills a scene into a few simple shapes, using color to create contrast and vibrancy, often choosing palettes that reflect pop culture. "My adopted kittens, Tony and Larry, opened my eyes and unleashed the artist inside me," shares Jessica. "After, I started to notice birds, trees, color, everything." Jessica brings to life her dynamic creations in the comfort of her studio in her century-old home. She enjoys listening to music and audiobooks while painting with her 18-year-old acrylic-covered easel. When not painting, Jessica cherishes time with her family and five cats, teaches yoga, and enjoys cycling along the river.
Words that describe this painting: forest, deer, deers, wildlife, folk, trees, owl, tree, trees, whimsical, nursery, animals, primitive, acrylic painting, red
Yellow Springs Deer Family...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Red-Tailed Hawk, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A red-tailed hawk soars high above, while the lake mirrors the mountains and blue sky. Artist Kira Yustak was inspired by watching these birds glide effortles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Aubusson Style French Jacquard Tapestry with Hunting Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A lavish French Aubbusson style jacquard tapestry depicting an exciting Renaissance era hunting scene. The scene is set in a dense forest of blue, g...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Tapestry
Band Practice, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Andrea Doss presents a whimsical fantasy piece of woodland animals playing musical instruments. The pale crescent moon gives a silvery glow as the raccoon, frog, and squirrel serenade at night. "Band practice was on every Tuesday and was usually a chaotic affair," says Andrea. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Black Cat on Cyan, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints a primitivist portrait of her cat, Rachel. With her sleek black fur and striking yellow eyes, the feline's electric personalit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
The Wilderness, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A whimsical, folk art style painting of nature interacting with a human in the forest. A snake wraps itself around the outstretched hand while a cardinal rest...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Firefly Field, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The magic of fireflies fills the field, tempting three clever foxes to chase and capture them. They intend to use the glowing insects for various important pu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Large Americana Folk Art Pictorial Hooked Rug Wool Wall Hanging Tapestry
Located in Surfside, FL
"RFD Courant",
hooked rug tapestry, rural community with country homes and buildings throughout rolling hills, lush green trees with three-dimensional leaves frame the scene, in the...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Fabric, Wool
The Race 3, Contemporary Quilt
By Bethan Ash
Located in Brecon, Powys
Collage inspired by Welsh folk tales and the story of Taliesin by Robert Nye. Each panel is full of abstract imagery texture and doodles conveying a dream like language where so many...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Fabric
The Elephant
s Tea Party, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The elephant always hosted the best tea parties, everyone agreed," says artist Andrea Doss. "Her dream was to bake a cake taller than the giraffe, but she ha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Adventures with a Dragon, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"While both very large and very strong, Fritz was a very timid dragon," says artist Andrea Doss. "He was afraid of everything, from the shadows of tree branch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Wolf and Hedgehogs, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Using her signature folk art-style, artist Jessica JH Roller captures an endearing portrait of a wolf and two hedgehogs in a verdant abstract landscape. Jessi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Rare Vesuvius Lava Stone Writing Set. torre Del Greco (naples). XIX
Located in Firenze, IT
Very Rare Vesuvius lava stone writing set.
Torre del Greco (Naples).
19th century.
4 objects with small sculptures (cameos) depicting the poet Petrarch, mythological female figures, ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art More Art
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Stone, Brass
$430 Sale Price
20% Off
"Tribal Cloth, Ewe Ghana, " Multicolored Cotton Textile created circa 1965
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The Ewe people from Ghana are master weavers. People of means commission cloths called adanudo ("skilled/wise cloths"). Ewe adanudo textiles often display a tweed effect by twisting ...
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1960s Folk Art More Art
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Cotton
"Protector One" Folk Art Crow Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
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Late 20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wood, Paint
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool Folk Art Rug Weaving Pillow or Wall Hanging
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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1950s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wool
Goldfinch at Rest, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Walking to a store one regular June afternoon, artist Jessica JH Roller noticed three goldfinches buzzing between a tree and a telephone pole. Drawn by her fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Doves with Zinnia, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A family of doves nest on the porch roof of artist Jessica JH Roller's neighbor. Their chicks often wander to Jessica's fence, where they rest and perch among...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
By Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts KIng David reciting Psalms, Hallelujah in Hebrew
Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין) (1923–1990) was an Israeli tapestry wall hanging, painter and graphic artist.
Kopel (Kopke') Gurwin (Gurwitz) was born and raised in Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. He spoke Yiddish at home, but simultaneously studied Hebrew at their school which was part of the Tarbut educational network. Kopel was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In the 1930s, as a teenager, Kopel helped his parents with the home finances by working in a suit workshop, there he first encountered the art of sewing.
With the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of Vilna, the Jews were imprisoned in camps and ghettos. Kopel and his brother Moshe were separated from their parents and were put to work in coal mines and peat. Kopel's parents were taken to the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp where they died of typhus within a month of each other. Kopel's 12-year-old sister Chava was turned over to the Germans by a Polish family and murdered.
The brothers were arrested by the Germans, but were saved thanks to the connections of Nina Gerstein, Kopel's drama teacher. They hid in an attic until they were discovered, fled and moved to Riga, where they were caught and sent to the Stutthof concentration camp where they were imprisoned until the end of the war. They were put to work maintaining and cleaning trains and took part in one of the death marches. In July 1946, Kopel and Moshe sailed to Helsingborg, Sweden, as part of operation "Folke Bernadotte", in which Sweden took in ill survivors for rehabilitation. Once he recovered, Kopel worked in a publishing house and later was appointed director of the local branch of the Halutz movement.
In 1950 Kopel and Moshe made aliyah to Israel. Kopel worked as a survey for the Survey of Israel Company. In 1951, he enlisted to the Communication Corps and served as a military draftsman. There he won first prize for the design of the front cover of the Communication Corps bulletin.
With his discharge from the army at 29 he started studying drawing and graphics at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Among his teachers were Isidor Ascheim, Shlomo Vitkin, Yossi Stern and Jacob Steinhardt. At the end of his first year of study, Kopel won the Reuben and Sarah Lif Excellence Award in written studies. During his studies he also won additional prizes: In 1956 he won first prize from the Lethem Foundation in California for poster design. Later the same year, Kopel won the Hermann Struck prize for his drawing on the theme of Jerusalem.
In 1957 he won an additional first prize from the Lethem Foundation and second place from the printing company Ortzel for a drawing for a Jewish New Year greeting card. In 1958 he won first prize in a competition to design a poster for Tel Aviv's jubilee.
Two years later he won three other awards: First and third prize for designing a poster for Israel Independence Day, celebrating 12 years of the State of Israel.
Also that year Kopel won first prize for a poster to mark the 25th Zionist Congress.
In 1964 he entered the Independence Day poster competition on the theme of aliyah and won first and second prize. Four years later he again entered the competition on the theme of 20 years of Israel's independence and won first prize. The poster was styled like a Holy Ark curtain with two lions and a menorah at its centre. This poster appeared on the cover of the famous book Jewish Art and Civilization, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder as well as the record Voices of 20 Years, 1948-1968, edited by Yossi Godard. In April 1971 he won first prize in the Independence Day poster competition for the fourth time.
Kopel's Folk Art tapestry won the Israeli Independence Day Poster Contest in 1968
With the completion of his studies at Bezalel Kopel moved to Tel Aviv and was hired by Shmuel Grundman's graphics and design studio. Grundman took him to Europe with him to design and supervise the construction of Israeli exhibition pavilions. During his time at Grundman's he discovered the fibrous felt from which he produced most of his wall hangings. At the 1964 Levant Fair exhibition he used felt stuck onto wooden panels for the first time.
The first felt wall hanging that Kopel produced was intended for the American Cultural Centre in Jerusalem and its theme was the United States Declaration of Independence. The wall hanging, which measured 2.85 X 1.85 meters, was stuck on a wooden panel. Kopel ordered rolls of felt from France and began work on wall hangings based on bible stories. He used a needle, hand sewing small even stitches with black embroidery thread which framed and highlighted every detail in the work, as well as using appliqué. The interior designer, Alufa Koljer-Elem, introduced him to Ruth Dayan who managed the shop Maskit in September 1967 he opened his first solo exhibition at the Maskit 6 gallery, in which 12 wall hangings were displayed.
In light of the exhibition at Maskit 6, Meira Gera, the director of artistic activity at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, organized an additional exhibition of his works at the foundation's exhibition hall in New York City. The exhibition sparked immense press interest, and was also displayed for a few months at the New York Jewish Museum, from where it travelled throughout the United States.
Followed by the exhibition at the Delson-Richter gallery in Old Jaffa, which was later also exhibited at the Jerusalem Theatre.
Kopel's tapestry "The Time for Singing has Arrived" was printed on a UNICEF greeting card in 1978 and again in 1981.
The Israeli Philatelic Service issued three stamps based on three of Kopel's holy ark curtains and one stamp based on an Independence Day poster he designed.
Kopel's creations decorate a large number of synagogues, public buildings, hotels and private collections which were purchased in Israel and around the world. They have decorated, among others, the walls of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the VIP room at Ben Gurion Airport, the Kfar Saba theatre and the Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv.
Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now artists like Israel Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, David Sharir, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin.
Exhibitions:
1995 The Knesset Jerusalem
1988 Temple Beth Shalom Miami, Florida
1988 University of Jewish Studies Los Angeles
1987 Israel Congregation on the Northern Coast Chicago
1985 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem
1984 Tenafly New Jersey
1983 Horace Richter Gallery Old Jaffa
1974 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem
1974 Delson Richter Gallery Old Jaffa
1972 University of Jewish Studies Miami, Florida
1971 Jewish Museum New York
1970 Norman Gallery Canada
1970 Sharei Tzedek Congregation Winnipeg, Canada
1970 Gallery of the Year Los Angeles
1970 Gallery of the Year Scottsdale
1969 Gleeman Gallery Chicago
1969 Israel Congregation of the Northern Coast Chicago
1967 Maskit 6 Tel Aviv
Prizes:
1971 First Independence Day poster 1971, 23 yeaes of the State of Israel
1969 Second International Tel Aviv poster...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wool, Felt
"Ceremonial Hunting Shirt - Yoruba, Nigeria, " Glass Beads, Shells,
Cloth
Located in Milwaukee, WI
For the Yoruba people of Nigeria, beads and shells are applied to ceremonial garments and headdresses. Beads are an important part of Yoruba culture. henry John Drewal has written th...
Category
1940s Folk Art More Art
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Fabric, Glass, Found Objects
19th Century Woolie with Curtain Bordered Ship
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century British Woolie
featuring a curtain border and floral accents
Medium is wool and is considered traditional folk art made by British Royal ...
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Mid-19th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wool
H.M.S Volage British Woolie 1869
Located in Austin, TX
Created in 1869 by British Naval Officer a woolie of H.M.S Volage which was built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was assigned to the Flying Squandron circumnavigating the w...
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Mid-19th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wool
Mixed Media Outsider Art Original Photo Collage Drawing 2 Sided
By Tom Carapic
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Carapic (born 1939), full name Tomislav Sava Čarapić, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork. He also does street art. A prominent Outsider Artist he was a featured artist in the American Visionary Art Museum's End is Near Exhibit. His work was also featured in the exhibition catalog. His work has been sold at Slotin Folk Art.
Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army. Afterwards he was denied a college education, possibly because he was not a member of the Communist Party, illegally crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there, emigrated to the United States.
In 1965, he began attending classes at the New York Art Students League, but dropped out soon afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred Academy of Beauty Culture. He was unable, however, to find steady beauty parlor employment, and worked in menial labor while attending classes in Spanish Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a problem with accreditation, he was forced to switch to classes in the field of studio art. There he experienced hallucinatory visions that explained his repeated failures to obtain a degree.
In the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing more hallucinatory visions; claiming that his degree problems were caused when "the evil marriage bureau massed the troops" against his college and proceeded with "an Air force bombardment" of the school. After receiving other visitations, he began making and showing his art.
Most of his art is centered on found objects, most famously computer keyboards, especially those by IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects, marked with black Sharpie markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints along the objects. His most famous exhibit in New York City is "Big Bang Theory," a doomsday warnings painted on computer keyboards and shoes and construction debris. Bears similarity to the Art Brut movement made famous by Jean Dubuffet.
He was inluded in The End is Near! an exhibit which included an unprecedented group of noted thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Jay Gould to Reverend Howard Finster and Apocalypse culture expert ,Adam Parfrey, visionary artists brought together by curator, Roger Manley, for an amazing exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum, the world’s largest ever mounted on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia.
The End is Near! featuredwork from the following visionary artists amongst others:
William Adkins Z.B. Armstrong Bill Bruley Frank Bruno Harry Leroy Brunson Tom Carapic Pierre Carbonel Howard Finster Tim Fowler Mary Mac Franklin Victor Joseph Gatto Robert Gie Patrick Gimel Hugo Hempel Oskar Herzberg Vojislav Jakic Norbert Kox Charles Keeling Lassiter...
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Mixed Media
European 19th Century Folk Art Painted Wooden Hope, Bridal Wedding Chest
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 19th century European folk art painted wood wedding, hope or bridal chest.
A superb example of a European hope or wedding chest in remarkable condition Of characteristic dome ...
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Early 19th Century Folk Art More Art
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Iron
Batea Ovalada Perfilada en Oro / Wood carving Lacquer Mexican Folk Art
By María Guadalupe Tapia Talavera
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
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Artisan: Maria Guadalupe Tapia Talavera
IAM 3rd. Place Category “Gold Bathed Laca”
INSTITUTO DEL ARTESANO MICHOACANO LVII State Edition Award "Domingo de...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
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Wood, Lacquer
Cats and Bats, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller crafts a visual tale of a playful interaction between creatures of the night. "Long before the break of day, a bat enters a home, awa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
African art tribal maternity figure, Lobi peoples Ghana - Ivory Coast
Located in Norwich, GB
A delightful African maternity figure from the Lobi peoples of the Ivory Coast/Ghana. With a serene yet feisty expression, the mother is carry...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wood
Water is Life, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Symbolic of water's vitality, artist Kira Yustak depicts a sight of hands cupping water from a clear river. She paints the introspective piece with an absorbi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Can Can
, Woman Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, Florence, French Dance
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sandra Grassi Nelipovich' (American, born 1938) and dated 1981. Artist business card on original frame backing with title, 'Can Can'.
A complex, multi-figural ...
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1980s Folk Art More Art
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Fabric, Paint
Hi ;), Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A nude figure with flowing hair turns slightly to the side, with a speech bubble saying "hi." Minimalistic lines outline her body against a background with ve...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Oil
Rare European 19C Judaica Havdalah Hebrew Plate
Located in Surfside, FL
Here is a rare late 19th Century-early 20th Century painted and stenciled Jewish plate with a Yiddish greeting. A rare piece of Jewish Porcelain from the Pre War era. In a bold black...
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Late 19th Century Folk Art More Art
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Porcelain
Men and Gods Barbara d
Antuono 21st Century art Textile art outsider art haiti
Located in Paris, FR
Embroidered textile painting
Hand sewed, unique, 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...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
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Textile
Wool Felt Applique Israeli Folk Art Signed Tapestry Kopel Gurwin Bezalel School
By Kopel Gurwin
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a Crab, In Hebrew Mazel Sartan (the Zodiac symbol Cancer, June-July) all made by hand. woven and stitched.
Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין) (1923–1990) was an Isra...
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20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wool, Felt
"Windows", Contemporary Quilt
By Bethan Ash
Located in Brecon, Powys
This abstract art quilt has been created by using a collage technique Inspired by the patterns left on a windowpane after a shower of rain. Using salt resist on wet paint has created...
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2010s Folk Art More Art
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Fabric
Florida Crabs, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller spent time in South Florida Beach, where numerous species of crabs roam on the shore, lagoon, and bike trail. Jessica depicted them i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Rosemary on Deep Blue and Flowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
During chilly weather, Rosemary often sits by a warm radiator in artist Jessica JH Roller's studio, observing falling leaves and busy squirrels outside. The room boasts a cluster of houseplants in various containers, alongside Jessica's nearby easel. One Wednesday morning, Jessica found inspiration from both Rosemary and a specific ceramic pot.
About the Artist
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints whimsical and playful compositions of animals and people, marked by bold colors and primitivist linework. She distills a scene into a few simple shapes, using color to create contrast and vibrancy, often choosing palettes that reflect pop culture. "My adopted kittens, Tony and Larry, opened my eyes and unleashed the artist inside me," shares Jessica. "After, I started to notice birds, trees, color, everything." Jessica brings to life her dynamic creations in the comfort of her studio in her century-old home. She enjoys listening to music and audiobooks while painting with her 18-year-old acrylic-covered easel. When not painting, Jessica cherishes time with her family and five cats, teaches yoga, and enjoys cycling along the river.
Words that describe this painting: cat, folk...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
Cat with House Plants, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A poised cat with striking blue eyes sits amid an array of houseplants and dining wares. Pops of yellow contrast vibrantly against the background. The bold li...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
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Acrylic
"Kente Cloth, Ashanti Tribe Ghana, " Cotton Weaving created circa 1970
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This cotton fabric was made by an unknown Ashanti artist. It is mostly black and white. The Ashanti are a major ethnic group of the Akans in Ghana, a fairly new nation, barely more than 50 years old. Ghana, previously the Gold Coast, was a British colony until 1957. It is now politically separated into four main parts. Ashanti is in the center and Kumasi is the capital.
The Ashanti have a wide variety of arts. Bark cloth was used for clothing before weaving was introduced. With weaving, there is cotton and silk. Women may pick cotton...
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1970s Folk Art More Art
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Cotton
Guatemala. Maschera di Baila de la Conquista. Inizio XX secolo
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa maschera guatemalteca del inizio del XX secolo, scolpita in legno e utilizzata per la danza della Riconquista (Baila de la Conquista) , raffigura vividamente un uomo europeo, ...
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Early 20th Century Folk Art More Art
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Wood, Intaglio
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The Wild Ones, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Soft brushwork and a mix of bright and gentle hues bring a sense of calm to this misty scene. Lively wildflowers bloom in the foreground, their cheerful tones a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Folk Art more art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Folk Art more art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add more art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, pink, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jessica JH Roller, Bethan Ash, Andrea Doss, and Jaime Ellsworth. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Folk Art more art, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for more art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $125 and tops out at $23,000, while the average work sells for $1,175.
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