A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America
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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 lifes and landscapes, a mature version of The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, playful animal sculptures and trade signs, and ornately painted German American…mehr

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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 lifes 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.
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Barbara L. Gordon is a folk art collector and trustee of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Richard Miller is an independent curator, formerly at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, VA. Avis Berman is an independent art historian based in New York. Cynthia G. Falk is professor of material culture at Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York. Lisa Minardi is assistant curator at the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington. Ralph Sessions is director of special projects at the DC Moore Gallery in New York and former chief curator at the American Folk Art Museum, New York.