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.

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 ...

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.

Leslie Umberger, the curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in ... few come from bona fide art museums. Early photography, where for the first time Black ...

Home can be a state of mind," says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the American Folk Art Museum called Somewhere ...

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 ...

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced today that ... painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley's sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest ...

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 ...

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 ...