Eugenie Alter Propp is a self-taught New York artist who has been working in collage and found-object assemblage for the past 25 years, but only recently has her art been seen by the public in shows in the United States and Europe. Born in Moscow in 1922, she and her father emigrated from a privileged life in Vienna to America following the Nazi takeover. She led a happy life in her adopted country and, in 1960 began to create art utilizing an original technique that blended collage and domestic materials--fabric, sequins, beads, ribbon and lace--with a woman's sensibility. Later she expanded her aesthetic with assemblage and environmental installations of found materials--from family heirlooms to Barbie dolls. This first book on the artist features 144 vivid color reproductions, and original essays by American Folk Art Museum curator Lee Kogan, and art critic Lori Waxman.

Enia's World: The Art Of Eugenie Alter Propp

Arts & Photography

Kogan, Lee

Waxman, Lori

Individual Artists

Jandam Press

Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae-Yelen

Perry, Regenia

Patterson, Tom

Cardinal, Roger

Gitter, Kurt

Yelen, Alice Rae

Larsen, Susan C.

Ritchey, Deborah Gilman

Schwindler, Gary J.

Swain, Thomas Adrian

Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)

History

Univ Pr of Mississippi

American Folk Art Museum 2002., Soft Cover- Pictorial Card Covers. First Edition. 0912161159

Painted Saws: Jacob Kass

Kass, Jacob J.

American Folk Art Museum

Created by self-taught artists, the works in this book include paintings, sculpture, weather vanes, decoys, painted furniture, quilts, samplers, fraktur, and household objects. They provide a glimpse of the Museum of American Folk Art's collection.

Treasures of Folk Art: Museum of American Folk Art (Tiny Folio)

Cate, Barbara

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

For Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) the old Southern world of shotgun houses, small churches, flowers, trees, and farm animals shined in her drawings, paintings, and sculpture. A self-taught artist from rural Georgia, she began creating when she was alone after the death of her second husband in 1948. From then until her death, her dreams and memories salved her loneliness with images of a bygone day, and these she made into art. 
The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is the most substantial gathering of her work to date. Here eighty full color and ten black and white images display the artist's extraordinary intuitive color sense and the vibrancy and variety of her work. 
She used whatever materials were at hand. When painting and drawing on paper, Styrofoam, cardboard, and wood, she favored plain and colored pencils, ink and felt tip pens, and gouache. Jewelry, lace, wigs, felt hats, and eye-glasses enhanced her cloth dolls. Sculpting, she gathered found objects, marbles, and glitter and fastened them with chewing gum. In these color-saturated works, there is an exuberant and idiosyncratic self-expression. 
Lee Kogan, director of the Folk Art Institute of the Museum of American Folk Art, unites the paintings and sculptures with a look at the artist's surroundings, practices, and culture. This collection of her work also includes a preface by Gerard C. Wertkin, Director of the Museum of American Folk Art, and a contextual essay by Atlanta-born Kinshasa Holman Conwill, director of the Studio Museum of Harlem. 
Nellie Mae Rowe lived her entire life on the rural fringes of Atlanta in Fayetteville and Vinings, Georgia. She was one of nine daughters of a former slave who worked as a farmer, a blacksmith, and basket weaver.

The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe : Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do

Humor & Entertainment

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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