" For Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) the old Southern world of shotgun houses, small churches, flowers, trees, and farm animals shined in her drawings, paintings, and sculpture. A self-taught artist from rural Georgia, she began creating when she was alone after the death of her second husband in 1948. From then until her death, her dreams and memories salved her loneliness with images of a bygone day, and these she made into art. The Art o ..."
"Created by self-taught artists, the works in this book include paintings, sculpture, weather vanes, decoys, painted furniture, quilts, samplers, fraktur, and household objects. They provide a glimpse of the Museum of American Folk Art's collection."
"Giroux, 1998. , and Johnetta Cole. Race and Representation: Art, Film, Video.
New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1987. Beyond Reason, Art and Psychosis:
Wor\s from the Prinzhorn Collection. London: Hayward Gallery, 1996. Bihalji-
Merin, Oto. Modern Primitives: Hawe Painting from the Late Seventeenth Century
Until the Present Day. New York: Gallery Books, 1971. , and Nebojsa-Bato
Tomasevic, eds. World Encyclopedia of T^aive Art: A ..."
Painted Saws Jacob Kass by LeeKogan Kass, Jacob J. Kass Paperback, 55 Pages, Published 2002 by American Folk Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-912161-15-0, ISBN: 0-912161-15-9
"American Folk Art Museum 2002., Soft Cover- Pictorial Card Covers. First Edition. 0912161159"
"Eugenie Alter Propp is a self-taught New York artist who has been working in collage and found-object assemblage for the past 25 years, but only recently has her art been seen by the public in shows in the United States and Europe. Born in Moscow in 1922, she and her father emigrated from a privileged life in Vienna to America following the Nazi takeover. She led a happy life in her adopted country and, in 1960 began to create art utili ..."
"roger cardinal is professor of literary and visual studies, University of Kent,
Keynes College, Canterbury, England. He is the author of numerous books and
articles on self-taught or outsider art, including the influential Outsider Art (1972),
Primitive Painters (1979), and the major essay for the catalog Outsiders (1979);
he is coeditor of Cultures of Collecting ( 1993). lee kogan is associate director of
the Folk Art Institute, M ..."
"Navajo medicine man Charlie Willeto (1897-1964) was also an artist--known for his ritualist figures of human and animal forms that carry the potency of the Navajo spirit while transcending to the realm of the mythic--who took up carving late in his life and found himself at the forefront of Navajo folk artists. This book presents some one hundred of Willeto's alluring visionary figures, and the accompanying essays discuss Willeto's rema ..."
"Organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, this unique collection of paintings, sculpture, collages, and drawings celebrates the remarkable work of America's self-taught artists.Insightful profiles of the life and work of each of the featured artists by curators, critics, scholars, and artists with a broad range of perspectives are accompanied by major essays by distinguished scholars Arthur C. Danto, Maurice Berger, and Gerald L. Da ..."
"For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site.This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furnitu ..."
"For the first time in its 40-year history, the American Folk Art Museum is able to present a significant selection of masterworks from its renowned collection, including major new acquisitions. American Anthem, which accompanies the show, is a chronological consideration of American folk art from the colonial period to the present. Unlike past surveys, the artworks will not be arranged by medium or theme, but rather through contextual s ..."
"The first published record of the work, life, and mysterious death of Ellis Ruley. Includes all of his 62 known works, plus an introduction by the director of the Museum of American Folk Art. Full color and black-and-white photographs."
"Navajo medicine man Charlie Willeto spent the last years of his life prodigiously carving figures of wood, becoming a well-known personage in Navajo folk art. Although he died in 1964, his work lives on in this glossy collection of essays and photographs, which depict 100 of his carvings in full colour reproduction. We should thank this book for bringing Willeto out of obscurity."
Foiled Tinsel Painting in America by LeeKogan Published by American Folk Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-1-199-62519-9, ISBN: 1-199-62519-1
"From the wistful charm of an early-19th-century American portrait of a sharp-nosed adolescent girl to the exquisite curves of a six-inch-long sea horse carved from the ivory tusk of a whale, Ralph Esmerian has an eye for the most striking examples of folk art. American Radiance lavishly showcases the collector's major gift to the American Folk Art Museum in New York, where it is on view through June 2002. With 778 photographs, 419 in co ..."
"In the works of many famous self-taught artists, such as Howard Finster and Sister Gertrude Morgan, Biblical themes and imagery abound. How has the Bible inspired these southern creators? Examining 125 works of art by seventy contemporary folk artists, Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. The exhibition features p ..."
Grandma Moses Grandmother to the Nation by LeeKogan, Fenimore Art Museum Hardcover, Published 2007 by Fenimore Art Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-917334-33-7, ISBN: 0-917334-33-7
"Published by the New York State Historical Association Publication date: 1/1/2007 Pages: 63"