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Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed
Category
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed
Category
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. This one
Category
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed
Category
20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Pool Hall", Acrylic
Found Objects, African-American Outsider Artist
Located in Detroit, MI
Wayne Manns has been a lover of music and art his entire life. He is a self-taught “Outsider Artist
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Magic Realist Surrealist Latin American Naive Fantasy Painting
By German Ramon Duron Lanza
Located in Surfside, FL
Magic realist fantasy painting in the manner of Ernst Fuchs and Arik Brauer.
Naïve art is any form
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"JAZZ MAN" BLACK FOLK ART JAZZ TRUMPET BLACK ORANGE WHITE LILA COCKRELL
S COLLE
Located in San Antonio, TX
: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art” These paintings have been featured all over the
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wash Day #5" by Black folk artist F.L. Doc Spellmon Painting on his palette
By Doc Spellmon
Located in San Antonio, TX
African-American Life and Culture - Dallas, Texas.
1996.
In: Art in America (July 1996). Brief review of
Category
1960s Folk Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
"Southern Gentleman" Unusal White Subject. Known for his African American
By William Aiken Walker
Located in San Antonio, TX
, African Americans, and dock scenes. The son of a prominent cotton agent, he was a true Southerner, born in
Category
1870s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
""Southern Pacific Railroad Depot" San Antonio Texas Black Texas Folk Artist
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
1987, and Rambling on My Mind:
Black Folk Art of the Southwest, organized by the Museum of
African
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Mixed Media
"The Living Dead" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Mixed Media
America Man
Located in Chicago, IL
folk art in Africa. Each sign takes on the unique personality of its owner, expressing both their
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Fiberboard
Doyle Lane Signed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Weed Pot Vase
By Doyle Lane
Located in Studio City, CA
Art
Oakland Museum of California
California African American Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
"COTTON FARM" BLACK TEXAS FOLK ART ARTIST JOHNNY BANKS
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Reeves:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Crayon
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children
s Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era.This painting that
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children
s Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. This framed painting
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tropical Jungle Paradise Painting Surrealist Art, Gustavo Novoa Animals, Flowers
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
Henri Maik. His animals were primitive and painted in lush and colorful Folk Art backgrounds. (they show
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original Painting Chinese Zodiac, Pig, Butterflies Surrealist Art, Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons and butterflies in a surrealist magic realism
Category
20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zebras and Daisies, Flower Field Jungle Painting Surrealist Art, Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
Original Painting Op Art Zebras in a field of daisy flowers in a lush tropical jungle setting
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zebras and Daisies, Flower Field Jungle Painting Surrealist Art, Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
Original Painting Op Art Zebras in a field of daisy flowers in a lush tropical jungle setting
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zebra Lion Tiger Elephant Flowers Jungle Painting Surrealist Art Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons and
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zebra Lion Tiger Elephant Flowers Jungle Painting Surrealist Art Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons and
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elephant and Lions, Animal Paradise Jungle Painting Surrealist Art Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
along with Henri Maik. His animals were primitive and painted in lush and colorful Folk Art backgrounds
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair" Joseph Delaney, African-American
Located in New York, NY
African-American artist Joseph Delaney was a folk-expressionist painter who loved New York City, both as a
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Painting "Swirls" Tropical Jungle Painting Lion Lionesses Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original Painting "By The Pond" Tropical Jungle Painting Zebras, Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa
Category
20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cascade, Large Scale Modernist Oil Painting
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market in Bahia, Brazil
Oil Painting by Noted Folk Artist Didito of Maragujipe
By Didito
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
exhibition: 'Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints' arranged by Con/Vita, Popular art of the Americas, which has
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Spoken Shadows, Large Scale Modernist Southwest Adobe Painting
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original Painting "At The Edge" by Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Large Jungle Painting "8 Virtual Zebras" Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons. Novoa
Category
20th Century Surrealist Animal Paintings
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool, Metal Folk Art Rug Weaving Wall Hanging
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
, I started another collection of North African folk art." When Lincoln Kirstein, then director of the
Category
1950s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wool
Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights
Located in Surfside, FL
the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later
Category
1990s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
"International
Great Northern The Texas Railroad Depot" San Antonio Texas
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Mixed Media
DREAMER, by Brenda Kingery, painting, Chickasaw, peach, black, abstract, stripes
Located in Santa Fe, NM
. While in Okinawa, Kingery taught painting, drawing, and Okinawan and folk art cultures at the University
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"The Force or Bottom Bound , " Acrylic on Canvas - Figurative painting
Located in Houston, TX
devote himself entirely to art in the late 1970’s. He began to explore folk art and assemblage to create
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Wood, Acrylic
"Narcissus" Lion and Lioness Tropical Jungle Painting Gustavo Novoa Lions
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons. Novoa
Category
20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Girl in Interior oil painting by Julio De Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
of his one-man show at the Art Institute, showcases his powerful vision, daring aesthetic
Category
1930s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Sunset Visitors" Lion and Lioness Tropical Jungle Painting Gustavo Novoa Birds
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons. Novoa
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool Folk Art Rug Weaving Pillow or Wall Hanging
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
, I started another collection of North African folk art." When Lincoln Kirstein, then director of the
Category
1950s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool Folk Art Rug Weaving Pillow or Wall Hanging
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
, I started another collection of North African folk art." When Lincoln Kirstein, then director of the
Category
1950s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wool
Wash Day, Melrose Plantation (Clementine Hunter, authenticated by Tom Whitehead)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rosenak, Museum of American Art Folk Art Encyclopedia
“Clementine Hunter,” Wikipedia, Web, Mar. 2016
Alice
Category
1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Giving Flowers to Jesus (Authenticated)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rosenak, Museum of American Art Folk Art Encyclopedia
“Clementine Hunter,” Wikipedia, Web, Mar. 2016
Alice
Category
1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Farm Houses
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lively painting by one of America's most famous folk artists, Clementine Hunter. Importantly
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Horses and Dancers
By Purvis Young
Located in Kansas City, MO
, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
Twilight Horses
By Purvis Young
Located in Kansas City, MO
the American Folk Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Folk Museum, the
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Child they had some people there
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bag Lady
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Watch That Bean Juice
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Casanovas Funeral
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shop Talk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
You knew damn well I was bringing a jelly cake
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Passing down of hats
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
madame muse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Git somewhere and Siddown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
second time around
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lafayette. Studying African American history on the College level allowed him to gain an even further
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Beach Day"
By William Zorach
Located in Southampton, NY
This is a very early painting by William Zorach done mostly likely when he was a student at the
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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