The quintessential guide to folk art in America, based on the landmark Whitney Museum exhibit of 1974, illustrates more than 400 outstanding examples of American craft covering four major categories: painted, drawn, or stitched pictures; sculpture; architectural decoration; and decorated household objects. View page after page of extraordinary talent, evidenced in weathervanes, ship figureheads, tinware, toys, quilts, painted furniture, and more.

The Flowering of American Folk Art

Arts & Photography

Lipman, Jean

Winchester, Alice

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

Contents: Preface : the need for revaluation -- The holy family of Bayreuth -- Wagner on Broadway -- Schoenberg's survival -- The stature of Stravinsky -- Copland as American composer -- The Mahler everyone loves -- And still Rachmaninoff -- Yesterday's new music -- The Lhevinnes : four hands at one piano -- Horowitz : king of pianists -- Menuhin : portrait of a prodigy -- The performer's predicament -- In the matter of interpretation -- Does performance matter? -- The rise of modernist taste : Ezra Pound -- Both sides of the record -- The prodigy in old age -- The dubious art of contests --Summing up : a tour d'horizon.

Music After Modernism

Basic Books

This book of early American folk decorations will be welcomed by the home decorator looking for a new source of design ideas. It features a wide variety of figures and motifs―including hex signs, stylized birds and animals; fruit, floral, and leaf patterns; depictions of angels, mermaids, and other human and semi-human figures; scrolls, tendrils, and simple geometric ornament―that were used to decorate everything from the smallest household utensil to the sides of barns and carriages. The possibilities of their modern application are limited only by the imagination of the individual decorator. Detailed practical instructions are provided for each type of decoration. The author carefully explains techniques for both free-hand work and stenciling, covering every aspect of the subject: preparation of surfaces; choice of materials and paint and where they can best be obtained; application of leaf; methods of enlarging designs; and finishing. She has included a large number of specific projects with patterns that are easy to follow. For the collector there are recommendations about restoration and preservation. In addition, to give the reader an idea of the great variety of uses for these designs, there are over 180 photographs of floor coverings and fireboards; decorations on doors and windows; tin trays, pitchers and boxes; picture frames, clocks, chests, chairs, and practically every other item of household use, chosen from museums and private collections. In chapters that deal individually with tinware, furniture, accessories, fabrics, architectural decoration, coach and sign painting, and fracture, Jean Lipman, the noted authority on early American art, provides extensive discussion of the history of the craft. She emphasizes the development of a native style through modifications brought over from England and the addition of a specifically American iconography. This aspect of the book will be found useful by anyone who is interested in the history of art in America.

Techniques in American Folk Decoration

Meulendyke, Eve

Graphic Design

Dover Publications

Reproduces works which illustrate the unique traditions and unpretentious quality of nineteenth-century primitive painting

American Primitive Painting

Dover Pubns

The carved and painted figures collected in this exceptional book are excellent examples of a wide-spread American folk art tradition that flourished from the middle of the 18th to the end of the 19th-century. 183 photographic illustrations, 4 reproduced in full-color on the covers. List of illustrations. Extensive bibliography.

American Folk Art in Wood, Metal, and Stone

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

'FLOWERING OF AMERICAN FOLK ART, 1776-1876'

Whitney Museum of American Art

VIKING

Published originallly in 1980 by Arch Cape Press in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, 233 pages (illustrated). Lavishly illustrated with informative text this book focuses on the finest identified American Folk painters of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Featuring over 150 masterpieces by 37 American artists and the fascinating stories of the detective work involved in tracking down the paintings and the artists responsible for them. A must for anyone interested in American Folk Art.

American Folk Painters of Three Centuries

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Gramercy

Shows Calder's paintings and sculptures which depict alligators, foxes, dinosaurs, lions, birds, monsters, snails, whales, fish, seals, kangaroos, monkeys, cows, pigs, and horses

Calder Creatures: 2

Dutton Adult

Calder's Circus

From the rear cover of this 171 page book: "Alexander Calder, creator of the mobile and the stabile, occupies a unique position as the sculptor generally considered America's greatest, and the American artist with the widest international reputation today. His fame, his career as a sculptor, began almost fifty years ago with his miniature Circus, now on extended loan to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Begun in the mid-twenties with just a few figures and gradually enlarged to encompass dozens of people and animals, the Circus is generally considered the germ from which grew the whole range of Calder's later production: the toys; wire, wood, and bronze sculpture; jewelry; drawings; gouaches; and even the great mobiles, stabiles, and the recent 'animobiles'. [This book] is divided into three parts: the Circus years; color stills from the Pathe film of a Circus performance; and the Circus figures themselves, especially photographed for this book by Marvin Schwartz and displayed with related pieces in all the media used by Calder. The illustrations are accompanied by quotations from Calder's remarks about circus things. An appendix includes detailed captions for each of the 115 illustrations, a chronology of events in Calder's career that relate to the Circus, and an annotated bibliography."

Plume