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Whether by nostalgia, divine inspiration, or hardship, we love the inventiveness exhibited by these American folk painters. Their ability to use available resources truly reaches limitless creativity.
The American folk artist’s work can be described as simple realism with an air of nostalgia and thoughtful approach to color. Grandma Moses portrayed farm life and rural countrysides, which...
Explore the collection of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, one of the only major museums to champion and collect works by untrained and vernacular artists. Learn about the themes, artists, and exhibitions of this diverse and powerful voice of America's culture.
15 de sept. de 2023 · Americana Insights highlights the best examples of traditional American folk art from Colonial times to the early 20th century—objects of extraordinary beauty, created with purpose by skilled, artful hands.
SAAM’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are pieces that draw on tradition — such as quilts — as well as artworks that reveal a more personal vision.
Folk art in the United States developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the Revolutionary War when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries. Folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people.
Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected childlike expression of men and women who had little or no school training in art, and who did not even know that they were producing art.”
