Folk Art Wall Decorations
FOLK ART STYLE
Folk art is a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Antique, new and vintage folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, duck decoys, portraiture and paintings, carnival art and quilts.
Quilts are a quintessential part of American folk art but their roots are international, with quilting dating back to Ancient Egypt. The practice spread to Europe and was especially prominent in the Middle Ages, with one of the oldest surviving examples being the Tristan quilt made in Sicily in the 14th century. They were made as bedcovers and clothing, including as a layer for knights to wear beneath their armor. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.
Elsewhere, the vast range of work associated with Mexican folk art includes masks made by Mexican craftspeople for traditional celebrations and ceremonial dances. Mexican masks are part of the country’s folk-art traditions that go back thousands of years and play a role in festivals and theater.
Works in the folk art tradition are valuable because of the skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story.
During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.
Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage folk art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Folk Art
Original Antique Print of Baboons, 1847
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of baboons
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original hand color.
Publishe...
Category
1840s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Abstract Figural Outsider Pop Art Painting Custom Wood Frame
Located in San Diego, CA
Massive Post Modern California outsider art acrylic on canvas framed painting.
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Vintage Shooting Club Lodge Target Plaque German 1900s, Carnival Folk Art
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Vintage Shooting Lodge Target Plaque 1900s. A rare and beautiful wooden shooting target plaque with inscriptions. This rare kings plaque was issued by a ...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
La Hacedora De Peces
by Postwar
Contemporary Venezuelan Artist Ender Cepeda
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This painting entitled "La Hacedora De Peces" (The Fish Maker) was hand-painted using oil paint on canvas by Venezuelan Artist Ender Cepeda. Cepeda i...
Category
Late 20th Century Venezuelan Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Mid-Century Rendition of The German Ocean Liner Bishop
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Rendition of The German Ocean Liner Bishop
Category
Mid-20th Century English Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Tin
Signed and Dated Oil Painting of a Judaic Lumberjack
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amazing painting of Judaic farmer fetching water. This painting is signed and dated. This item has minor wear consistent with its age. Painting is signed S. Brunstein and dated 1974....
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
$595 Sale Price
33% Off
Set of 6 Original Antique Natural History Prints, 1847
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful set of 6 natural history prints.
Original hand colored lithographs.
After drawings by Cpt. Brown.
Published by Fullarton, 1847
Unframed.
Category
1840s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Bali Hindu Textile Framed
Kamasan
Painting, Indonesia C. 1920
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A mid-20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. Key features of this image ar...
Category
1950s Balinese Vintage Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton, Paint
$1,920 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Original Antique Print of a Twite, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Twite
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original color
Publ...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Series of Six Italian Prints with Picturesque Roman Costumes by Pinelli 1831
Located in Milano, MI
Series of Six Prints with Popular Roman Costumes by Pinelli Bartolomeo dated 1831 Acquaforti reproducing costumes and scenes of popular life in the city of Rome. In good condition, t...
Category
1830s Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Harewood, Paper
Antique Tapas on Natural fiber fabric brown vegetal motifs
Located in Miami, FL
Organic painting on natural fiber fabric
Oceania original Tapas
As is
Category
Late 20th Century New Zealand Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Natural Fiber
Deborah Barrett "Woman in Animal Suit" Graphite Mixed Media on Paper / Collage
By Deborah Barrett
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Title: Woman in Animal Suit
Artist: Deborah Barrett
Medium: Mixed Media Collage on Paper
Signed and date to the lower right and bearing an old Susan...
Category
1990s American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Gesso, Paper
Original Antique Print of a Rook, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Rook
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original color
Publi...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Tree Sparrow, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Tree Sparrow
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original colo...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
JOHN R. WATTS, Folk Art Watercolor
Gouache Landscape Painting, U.S., C.1889
Located in Chatham, ON
JOHN R. WATTS (Unknown/Unidentified Artist) - Folk art watercolor and gouache landscape painting on paper - graphite highlights and shading - unframed - signed and dated lower right ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint, Paper
Charles Saül Framed Haitian Vintage Village Scene Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Miami, FL
An original framed acrylic on canvas painting of a Haitian village scene with people going back and forth, huts, and tall foliage and palm trees.
Signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Haitian Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
German Polychrome Wax Painting 19th Century With Dancing Figures of Musicians
Located in Milano, MI
Tanzgruppe mit Dudelsackpfeifer -dance group with bagpipes. Ceroplast From the 1800s Of Nordic Origin polychrome wax composition depicting a genre scene with four figures dressed in ...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Stucco
E. MULBE - Vintage Gouache Painting on Panel - Signed - Framed - 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage - E. MULBE - gouache landscape painting on panel - signed lower left - contained in a vintage softwood frame - old Simpson's framing label verso - mid 20th century.
Excellen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique American Hand-Hooked Parrot Tapestry with MCM Folk Art Style
By Evelyn Ackerman, Luis Montiel
Located in Dallas, TX
77273 Antique American hand-hooked parrot tapestry with MCM Folk Art style. Drawing inspiration from Luis Montiel and Evelyn Ackerman, this antique Americ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Framed Original Antique Print of A Brown Bear, circa 1900
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a brown bear
Copperplate photogravure engraving by Walter L. Colls.
Good quality wove paper
Published C.1900
In an antique oak frame
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage American Sampler Dated "1929" Made by "MCB"
Located in Incline Village, NV
Simply a beautiful and well made "American Sampler On Linen" with initials "MCB" bordered in blue; in excellent and all original condition. A stitched green framed border; features ...
Category
1920s American Vintage Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Linen
Original Antique Print of a Red-Throated Pipit, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Red-throated Pipit
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Origina...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Long-Tailed Tit, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Long-tailed Tit
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original c...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Unusual carved oak Modernist / Architectural Wall Hanging .signed dated 1962
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual carved oak Modernist / Architectural Wall Hanging .signed (monogramed) dated 1962..Not sure who created or it's origin? Very Japanese ? Wonderful patina. dark rich oak.
Category
1960s Unknown Vintage Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Oak
Original Antique Print of a Quaker Meeting, circa 1810
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Charming print of a Quaker Meeting
Woodcut engraving
Published circa 1810
Unframed.
The measurement given is the paper size.
Free shipping
Category
1810s French Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Bullfighting Print, Dated 1805
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of bullfighting
Copper-plate engraving
Published 1805
Unframed.
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of an Aquatic Warbler, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of an Aquatic Warbler
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original ...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Set of 8 Original Antique Prints of Monkey
s, circa 1780
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful set of 8 copper-plate engravings of monkeys after De Seve
I particularly like the naivety of the drawings.
Published C.1780
Unframed.
Free shipping.
Category
1780s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Exceptionally Long Bali Hindu Textile
Kamasan
Painting, Indonesia C. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This striking vintage Balinese Kamasan painting, rendered on handwoven cotton, beautifully captures the timeless elegance of classical Wayang-style storytelling. Featuring intricate ...
Category
Early 1900s Balinese Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Cotton, Paint
$3,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Swedish 19th Century Folk Art Oil Painting With Kids
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish naive oil painting with the original frame, from the 2nd part of the 19th Century.
This folk art work on canvas represents kids and a dog playing by a courtyard, opening the...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Original Antique Print of a Shore Lark, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Shore Lark
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original color
...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Wall Creeper, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Wall Creeper
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original colo...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Chough, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Chough
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original color
Pub...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Scarlet Bullfinch, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Scarlet Bullfinch
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of an English Sporting Dog, 1847
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a bloodhound presented in a distressed antique gilt frame.
Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color.
Published, 1847.
Category
1840s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper, Gesso
Original Antique Print of a Cat After Landseer, Early 19th Century
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a cat presented in an antique distressed pine frame
Copper-plate engraving after Landseer
Published About 1840
There is a single horiz...
Category
1840s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Pine, Paper
Set of 4 Original Antique Prints of Woodpecker
s C.1880
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful set of 4 prints.
Lithographs after the original drawings by Alexander Francis Lydon
Original colour
Published by John C. Nimmo, Circa 1880...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Original Antique Natural History Print, Camels, circa 1835
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of camels
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. Brown and Marechal with original hand colo...
Category
1830s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Naive art painting "Lunch Table" by Ivan Lacković Croata, Yugoslavia 1961
Located in Beograd, RS
In this listing you will find a beautiful example of Yugoslav Naive art. The painting is called "Lunch Table" (in Serbo-Croatian "Trpeza") and it was painted by Ivan Lacković Croata....
Category
1960s Vintage Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Original Antique Bird Print, the Savi
s Warbler, circa 1870
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a savi's warbler
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph with original hand color.
Published,...
Category
1870s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Melodious Willow Warbler, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Melodious Willow Warbler
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
O...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Original Antique Natural History Print, Rhinoceros, circa 1835
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of an Indian and a lesser two horn rhino
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. brown with ...
Category
1830s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Jan Bačur Naive Folk Art Painting Oil on Canvas Framed, Serbia 1986
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
The original oil on canvas painting depicts a country scene with a woman handing laundry on the line with a few chickens and a dog surrounding her. Bright dress and colorful laundry ...
Category
1980s Serbian Vintage Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Original Antique Print of a Rufous Warbler, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Rufous Warbler
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original ha...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Original Antique Print of a Tree Pipit, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of a Tree Pipit
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original color
...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Rosen Style Folk Art Fruit Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting, C1830
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Severin Rosen Style Folk Art Fruit Still Life Oil on Canvas Painting Seated in Giltwood Frame C1830
Measures- 18''H x 22.25''W x 2.5''D; 14.5''...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
French Faience Nautical Pattern Plate, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
Large 19th French decorative plate with nautical pattern (boats, fishs baskets, lighthouse), circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
Great Oil Painting of a Garden Scenery, Alexander Michael 1997
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Oil Painting of a Garden Scenery, Alexander Michael 1997
A framed oil painting depicting a colorful, vibrant garden scene filled with greenery, flowering plants and a garden h...
Category
Late 20th Century German Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
Important Monumental Vintage Folk Art Painting of Vibrant Harvest Scene - Mexico
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A captivating vintage Mexican folk art painting brimming with color, cultural richness, and a very unique story! While at a destination wedding in Puerto Vallarta, our driver passed ...
Category
20th Century Mexican Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Original Antique Print of an Orphean Warbler, circa 1880,
Unframed
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of an Orphean Warbler
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon.
Original ...
Category
1880s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Original Antique Natural History Print, Quadrumana, circa 1835
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of Quadrumana, apes etc.
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original han...
Category
1830s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Large Oil on Canvas, Mayan Jaguar by Kindrie Grove 2002
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Very large oil on canvas, ancient tableau, Jaguar by Kindrie Grove, Canadian Artist.
Large oil painting that depicts a Mayan Jaguar.
Made in 2002.
The ar...
Category
20th Century Canadian Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Original Antique Ethnographical Print, Figures, New South Wales, Australia, 1809
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful ethnographical print.
A copper-plate engraving after Lesieur
Published by Sherwood, Neely & Jones. Dated 1809
Unframed.
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Adirondack Folk Art Wishbone Twig Wall Mount Holder Basket Handmade Artisan
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a great Adirondack style artisan made wall mount basket type holder. with a wishbone shaped twig in the center back which has been finished with a dark stain. It would be gre...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Twig
Botanical Persian Pictorial Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th Century Persian Persian Bakhtiari Pictorial signed Prayer rug. Light enough to use as a wall piece as well
Measures: 5'5'' x 8'2''.
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Chinese Batou Pictorial Rug
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Batou Scatter size Rug
Details
rug no. j2234
size 3' x 6' 1" (91 x 185 cm)
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Embroidered Tapestry Portrait Wool Little Red Riding Hood circa 1890
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Embroidered Tapestry Portrait Wool Little Red Riding Hood circa 1890
Tapestry embroidered gros-point wool picture of a depiction of Little Red Riding Hood.
Category
1890s German Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
$449 Sale Price
62% Off
Vintage Boho Life Size Wooden Character Sign
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Step right up and add a touch of nostalgic whimsy to your interior with this charismatic vintage wooden cutout sign. Depicting a dapper gentleman with a handlebar mustache, a classic...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Straw, Wood
Delft Ceramic Decorative Tile Featuring a Man on Horse
By Delft
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Delft tile featuring a noble man riding a horse.
This characterful Delftware tile a man on horseback in expressive blue coloring on a whit...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Large Original Antique Natural History Print, Gerbils, circa 1835
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of gerbils
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. Brown and Marechal with original hand col...
Category
1830s English Antique Folk Art Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Folk Art wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique folk art wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage wall decorations created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, folk art, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with paper, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Folk Art wall decorations made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United Kingdom pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original wall decorations, popular names associated with this style include Berber Tribes of Morocco, Purvis Young, Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo, and Arthur Nevin. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for wall decorations differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $20 and tops out at $48,000 while the average work can sell for $949.
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