American Folk Art Museum Although portraiture is at the heart of the show, it opens with landscapes — works commissioned, in many cases, to show off the property of a wealthy landowner.

A collector of Folk Art?” Phillips ... her gaze more direct,” Zimmerman said. Early American portraits were prized and expensive possessions that often descended in families, she noted.

Of the hundreds—or possibly thousands—of portraits that itinerant American folk artist Ammi Phillips ... of American vernacular portraiture as an art form and one that was becoming ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

How did it come about that the Folk Art Museum near Manhattan’s Lincoln Center was able to borrow the portrait? American Folk Art Museum curator Emelie Gevalt contacted India Spartz, collections ...

ELKHART — The exhibit “American Portraits: Identity, Persona, & Power” continues through Sept. 30 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. Director/Curator Brian Byrn has ...