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Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collectionby: Museum, Milwaukee Art

Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection
by: Museum, Milwaukee Art

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, softcover, 216 pages. Over 200 color illustrations. Published to coincide with the 2012 showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum of works by 64 self-taught artists in the Anthony Petullo Collection. Foreword by Daniel T. Keegan. Art Brut and "Outsider" Art, essay by Jane Kallir - "It's a Picture Already, essay by Lisa Stone. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350002

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American Folk Sculpture: The Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Craftsmenby: Beatrice Winser, Arthur F. Egner, et. al.

American Folk Sculpture: The Work of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Craftsmen
by: Beatrice Winser, Arthur F. Egner, et. al.

Softcover. Newark NJ, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brick-red paper wraps. Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, some edge wear, small ink mark inside the cover.

Record # 379831

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American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museumby: Hollander, Stacy C.

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum
by: Hollander, Stacy C.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Book and unprice-clipped pictorial dust jacket are without defects. A beautiful catalog of the great Ralph Esmerian collection of American folk art done when the 400 outstanding works were given to the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Outstanding plates followed by detailed descriptions.

Record # 352429

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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpturesby: Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco

American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculptures
by: Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Hardcover, 301 pages, 450 color illustrations. This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's vernacular art out of the antiques arena and specialty museum and into today's art world. Presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious toterns, from antique trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes.

Record # 360889

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American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculpturesby: Maresca Frank and Roger Ricco

American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculptures
by: Maresca Frank and Roger Ricco

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Color illustrations, index and appendices. Introduction by Margit Rowell; essay by Joseph Jacobs. A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes.

Record # 351688

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Bill Traylorby: Val?©rie Rousseau, Debra Purden

Bill Traylor
by: Val?©rie Rousseau, Debra Purden

Hardcover. Five Continents, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Born into slavery around 1853-4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor has become one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most celebrated African-American artists, along with Thorton Dial and William Edmondson. The story of Bill Traylor's life and work is a remarkable one. It is a story that deserves attention both nationally and internationally. This publication, generously illustrated with full-page high-quality reproductions, provides a close examination of Traylor's recurrent themes, composition schemes, favored iconography, and contextual information related to the artist's biography, creative process and tools, visual environment, and artistic mindset. Each artwork is considered in a context beyond that of an isolated image and in response to one another, forming a series of intricate and consistent narratives, intriguingly cinematic in its development. The elements of Traylor's biography are the anchors of an individual mythology. Instead of merely being a basic depiction, the subject becomes a visual statement structuring Traylor's mind, bringing together hidden symbols from Kongo Vodou, Hoodoo, Southern Baptist, Freemasonry, and Blues sources, as well as layers of references: slavery, uncensored violence in the Jim Crow era, and turbulence within the black enclave known as 'Dark Town' in Montgomery, Alabama. Bilingual edition in French and English. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 385440

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Edward Hicks: His Life and Artby: Ford, Alice

Edward Hicks: His Life and Art
by: Ford, Alice

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 276 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray cloth with dark green title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. Edward Hicks (1780-1849), itinerant Quaker preacher and painter of coaches, signs and his own pictures, viewed Paine and Spinoza as devils, considered slavery a moral but not a political issue, and abhorred the temperance movement. When not torturing himself with guilt for being an artist or for leaving his wife and children in order to preach, he produced some masterpiecesnotably The Peaceable Kingdom, whose 50 or so variants dramatize Isaiah's biblical prophecies. Fifty color plates and 100 halftones show Hicks's folk renditions of William Penn, Noah's ark, David and Jonathan, along with his pastoral landscapes.

Record # 605822

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Eskimo Artby: Burland, Cottie

Eskimo Art
by: Burland, Cottie

Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.

Record # 805388

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Folk Art in the Soviet Unionby: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)

Folk Art in the Soviet Union
by: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)

Hardcover. New York, Aurora, 1st, Aurora, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 459 pages, 1430 illustrations, including 705 plates in full color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small scratch to front cover. Excellent reference copy.

Record # 460605

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Folk Treasures of Historic Ontarioby: Kobayashi, Terry and others

Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario
by: Kobayashi, Terry and others

Softcover. Toronto, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 201 plates in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog in clean, bright condition. Photos with brief descriptions of folk art & artifacts representing many ethnic groups including Pennsylvania German work. Clean copy.

Record # 396427

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Hispanic Crafts of the Southwestby: Wroth, Ed., William

Hispanic Crafts of the Southwest
by: Wroth, Ed., William

Softcover. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue featuring the Hispanic art of the American Southwest. 118 pages, 21 black/white plates, 105 other black/white illustrations of pieces, and 36 black/white photographs of featured artists. Good condition, some soiling/light discoloration on the cover, top right corner bent.

Record # 804833

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Hungarian Folk Artby: Hofer, Tamas

Hungarian Folk Art
by: Hofer, Tamas

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st UK, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages of text. 638 photographs. Beautifully illustrating the Hungarian folk art and gives insight into the customs and lore of Hungarian peasantry. Folio. Gray cloth, decorated end papers. Small stain to dust jacket spine. Minute crinkling to spine bottom edge. A very clean, attractive and well preserved copy.

Record # 605145

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I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippinby: Stein, Judith E.

I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin
by: Stein, Judith E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/Universe Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, 191 illustrations most in color. Bibliography and index. One of the foremost African-American artists of the twentieth century, Horace Pippin came to prominence in the late 1930s between the heyday of the American Scene painters and the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism. An unschooled painter who was a disabled World War I veteran, Pippin is represented in public and private collections across America. I Tell My Heart features over 110 Pippin paintings including many never before reproduced nor shown in public since the artist's lifetime, as well as many black and white archival photographs of Pippin and his contemporaries.

Record # 350476

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Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, Theby: Weekley, Carolyn J.

Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, The
by: Weekley, Carolyn J.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, 173 illustrations, 131 in color. Although he is now seen as a progenitor of the "naive" style, during his lifetime Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was known only as a devout, impoverished Quaker minister who liked to paint. With a few exceptions, his extant body of work is made up of 62 "Peaceable Kingdom" pictures, based on Isaiah's biblical prophecy. Although these paintings, known for their charmingly wide-eyed and sensuous beasts, use potent color and effective design, they are technically unsophisticated and repetitive in the extreme. But they contain a powerfully serene devoutness, a mood probably expressed in compensation for Hicks's guilt about an avocation viewed as frivolous by other Quakers. As the popularity of folk art boomed in the early 20th century, Hicks's homely visions were popularized and became the focus of scholarly attention, and this work is probably the best to date. Weekley, the director of museums at Colonial Williamsburg, shrewdly considers Hicks's "secular" life and art through the filter of his intense piety and copiously illustrates her large-format book with brilliant color plates.

Record # 350477

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Let It Shine : Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collectionby: Spriggs, Lynne E.

Let It Shine : Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection
by: Spriggs, Lynne E.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, filled with impressive folk art in full color on just about every page. Three essays on the collection by Marshall and Lynne E. Spriggs, High Museum of Art's Curator of Folk Art, Joanne Cubbs, the museum's first curator of folk art, and Lynd Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Forword by Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351948

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LEWIS MILLER Sketches and Chronicles. The Reflections of a Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German Folk Artist by: Donald A. Shelley (Intro.)

LEWIS MILLER Sketches and Chronicles. The Reflections of a Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German Folk Artist
by: Donald A. Shelley (Intro.)

Hardcover. York PA, Historical Society of York County,, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, square, tight unmarked copy, lettering on cover is faded. 185 pages illustrated in color. Foreword by Robert P. Turner; introduction by Donald A. Shelley. In a brown slipcase with a label on front.

Record # 373491

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Mare's Nest, Theby: Bowen, Gary

Mare's Nest, The
by: Bowen, Gary

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Vermont folk art artist, Warren Kimble. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368454

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Mare's Nest, Theby: Bowen, Gary

Mare's Nest, The
by: Bowen, Gary

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Vermont folk art artist, Warren Kimble. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368455

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Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artistsby: Rosenak, Chuck

Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists
by: Rosenak, Chuck

Hardcover. New York, 1st, February 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Slight foxing to top edge and upper edge of lightly worn jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 451709

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Mythic Image, Theby: Campbell, Joseph

Mythic Image, The
by: Campbell, Joseph

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 552 pages. Hardcover. Bollingen Series C. Dust jacket with light wear, tears to edges, price clipped. Full color and black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750015

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Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock, Theby: Tomlinson, Juliette

Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock, The
by: Tomlinson, Juliette

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. yellow pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to spine. Like new. A very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605367

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Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)by: Lemasson, Patrick

Peru: Art from the Chavin to the Incas (Collections Du Petit Palais, Musee Des Beaux-Arts de la VILL)
by: Lemasson, Patrick

Hardcover. New York , Skira, 1st, 2006-09-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 224 pages profusely illustrated in color. This book describes the grandeur and richness of the numerous civilizations predating the Incas, including the Paracas, Nazca, Recuay, Sican-Lambayeque, Moche-Sipan, and Chimu cultures, as well as the great Inca civilization. Included in the book are the important sites and landscapes representative of the three major ecological levels of Peru, as well as a general view and a historical perspective of the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru.

Record # 350031

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Shadow Images of Asia; A Selection of Shadow Puppets from The American Museum of Natural Historyby: Bettie Erda

Shadow Images of Asia; A Selection of Shadow Puppets from The American Museum of Natural History
by: Bettie Erda

Softcover. Katonah NY, The Katonah Gallery, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, staplebound quarto paperback, exhibition catalog. Color cover, b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 387541

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Slate Figures of Cornwallby: Bizley, Alice C

Slate Figures of Cornwall
by: Bizley, Alice C

Hardcover. UK, self-published, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. "A careful study of an ancient craft, peculiar to the County of Cornwall, that of carving Family Portraits in Slate." Foreword by Dorothy Dudley. 184 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean.

Record # 381558

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Texas Folk Art: One Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Traditionby: Steinfeldt, Cecilia

Texas Folk Art: One Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Tradition
by: Steinfeldt, Cecilia

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A book devoted to the various forms of folk art that have developed in Texas. Includes over 200 illustrations, approximately half of which are in color. Also contains biographical notes on the various featured artists. Very good condition, some wear to the edges and spine of the dust jacket.

Record # 804740

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The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock by: Stock, Joseph Whiting/Juliette Tomlinson (Ed.)

The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock
by: Stock, Joseph Whiting/Juliette Tomlinson (Ed.)

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. The life & work of a 19th century American folk artist Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Clean copy.

Record # 396685

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Vision and Form: The Norman Zepp / Judith Varga Collection of Inuit Artby: Zepp, Norman

Vision and Form: The Norman Zepp / Judith Varga Collection of Inuit Art
by: Zepp, Norman

Softcover. Vancouver, Marion Scott Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460321

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Walter Gaudnek Retrospective: January 9 through February 26, 1978by: Gaudnek, Walter

Walter Gaudnek Retrospective: January 9 through February 26, 1978
by: Gaudnek, Walter

Softcover. Montgomery, Ala., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 69 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small mark on rear cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451131

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