Folk art : imaginative works from American hands.
Folk art : imaginative works from American hands.
- Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1990.
- 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
- American country .
- American country. .
"A Rebus book." 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.
080946800X 9780809468003 0809468018 9780809468010
89077352
Folk art--United States.
NK805 / .F58 1990
745/.0973
"A Rebus book." 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.
080946800X 9780809468003 0809468018 9780809468010
89077352
Folk art--United States.
NK805 / .F58 1990
745/.0973