Writer of added text:

Miller, Richard  Search this

Berman, Avis  Search this

Falk, Cynthia G.  Search this

Minardi, Lisa 1983-  Search this

Sessions, Ralph  Search this

Issuing body:

Art Services International  Search this

Host institution:

American Folk Art Museum  Search this

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art  Search this

Westmoreland Museum of American Art  Search this

Denver Art Museum  Search this

Society of the Four Arts  Search this

Cincinnati Art Museum  Search this

Hyde Collection  Search this

Physical description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Place:

United States

Date:

2014

Notes:

This volume accompanies the exhibition A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandra, Virginia.

Exhibition itinerary: American Folk Art Museum, New York, December 16, 2014-March 8, 2015 ; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, March 28-July 5, 2015 ; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, November 7, 2015-February 28, 2016 ; Montgomery Museum of Art, Alabama, April 2-June 12, 2016 ; Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, July 10-October 2, 2016 ; Denver Art Museum, October 27, 2016-January 22, 2017 ; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, February 11-March 30, 2017 ; Cincinnati Art Museum, June 10-September 3, 2017 ; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, October 7-December 31, 2017"--Page preceding title page.

Contents:

Acknowledgments / Lynn K. Rogerson ; Preface / Barbara Gordon ; A distinction without a difference: the art of American folk art / Richard Miller ; Uncommon women and the art of the common man: the role of women in the discovery, promotion, and collecting of American folk art / Avis Berman ; Pennsylvania, German, and beyond / Cynthia G. Falk and Lisa Minardi ; Rising to the dignity of art: figure carving as pubic sculpture in nineteenth-century America / Ralph Sessions ; Catalogue ; Selected bibliography ; Index

Summary:

An unparalleled introduction to American folk art, accompanying a major traveling exhibition. A handsome and insightful survey of American folk art, this book includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, and household objects made by untrained or minimally trained folk artists in New England, the Midwest, and the South between 1800 and the 1920s. This richly illustrated volume includes rare and very fine portraits, radiant still lives and landscapes, a mature version of The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, playful animal sculptures and trade signs, and ornately painted German American furniture. With newly researched texts by leading scholars, this publication makes an important contribution to the field.

Topic:

Folk art  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

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