Folk art : imaginative works from American hands / Time Life Books

Contributor(s): Time-Life Books
Series: American countryPublisher: Alexandria, Virginia : Time-Life Books, c1990Description: 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080946800X; 0809468018 (lib. bdg.)Subject(s): Folk art -- United StatesDDC classification: 745.0973 LOC classification: NK805 | .F58 1990
Contents:
An American portrait. Rufus Hathaway ; John Brewster, Jr. ; Mementos in miniature ; Edward Hicks ; Joshua Johnson ; Jacob Maentel ; Pictures in the home ; Ammi Phillips ; Rufus Porter ; Shades of our ancestors ; Sheldon Peck ; Joseph Hidley ; William Matthew Prior ; James and John Bard ; Emma Cady ; Women folk artists ; Erastus Salisbury Field -- Art of the professional. Ship carvings ; Wooden shop figures ; Keeping shop ; Trade symbols ; Painted signboards ; Trade banners ; Fire buckets and parade hats ; Carousel animals ; The carousel ; Weather vanes ; Wildfowl decoys ; The fish decoys of Oscar Peterson ; Ceramic face jugs ; Decorated stoneware ; Sgraffito pottery ; Illuminated fraktur -- Classroom exercises. Schoolgirl needlework ; Mourning pictures ; Classroom views ; Theorem painting ; Decorated tables ; Painted scenes ; The role of prints in schoolgirl art ; Calligraphic drawing ; Paper art ; Tokens of love ; Tinsel paintings -- Expressions of the people. Decorated boxes ; Scrimshaw pie jaggers ; Ornamental canes ; Sculptures and whirligigs ; Folk sculptor John Scholl ; Homemade dolls ; Pictorial quilts ; Adam and Eve in folk art ; Table rugs ; Floor rugs -- Living with folk art. A taste for collecting ; An eclectic eye ; A love of Americana.
Summary: Presents a variety of folk art including paintings, carvings, embroidery, pottery, and household furnishings.
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Includes index.

An American portrait. Rufus Hathaway ; John Brewster, Jr. ; Mementos in miniature ; Edward Hicks ; Joshua Johnson ; Jacob Maentel ; Pictures in the home ; Ammi Phillips ; Rufus Porter ; Shades of our ancestors ; Sheldon Peck ; Joseph Hidley ; William Matthew Prior ; James and John Bard ; Emma Cady ; Women folk artists ; Erastus Salisbury Field --
Art of the professional. Ship carvings ; Wooden shop figures ; Keeping shop ; Trade symbols ; Painted signboards ; Trade banners ; Fire buckets and parade hats ; Carousel animals ; The carousel ; Weather vanes ; Wildfowl decoys ; The fish decoys of Oscar Peterson ; Ceramic face jugs ; Decorated stoneware ; Sgraffito pottery ; Illuminated fraktur --
Classroom exercises. Schoolgirl needlework ; Mourning pictures ; Classroom views ; Theorem painting ; Decorated tables ; Painted scenes ; The role of prints in schoolgirl art ; Calligraphic drawing ; Paper art ; Tokens of love ; Tinsel paintings --
Expressions of the people. Decorated boxes ; Scrimshaw pie jaggers ; Ornamental canes ; Sculptures and whirligigs ; Folk sculptor John Scholl ; Homemade dolls ; Pictorial quilts ; Adam and Eve in folk art ; Table rugs ; Floor rugs --
Living with folk art. A taste for collecting ; An eclectic eye ; A love of Americana.

Presents a variety of folk art including paintings, carvings, embroidery, pottery, and household furnishings.

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