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Folk art : imaginative works from American hands.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American countryPublication details: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, 1990.Description: 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 080946800X
  • 9780809468003
  • 0809468018
  • 9780809468010
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Folk art.DDC classification:
  • 745/.0973 20
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 745 AME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) NK805 .F58 1990 1 Available 34517000196991

"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.

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