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Join us as we visit ten renowned American folk painters. Let’s go! What Is American Folk Art? American folk art emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. People revived old artistic traditions and passed them down from one generation to the next. Nothing has a more intimate connection with a person and their culture than folk art.
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.
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.
The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.