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Article #461: Folk Art Auctions

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Folk art auctions feature a wide range of on my wall all through the autumn months.
objects that reflect the artist's craft Another folk art auction that I found and
traditions, and traditional social was sad to bid up past my budget was a
values. Folk art is generally produced handmade set of miniature dominos. The
by people who have little or no academic set was in a folk art decorated maple
artistic training. Folk artists usually case. The set dates from the mid to late
use established techniques and styles of 1800's. It was really exquisite and I'm
a particular region or culture. sorry that I missed out on it.
Folk art auctions include paintings, I really liked another folk art auction
sculptures and other decorative art that I found for a modern fraktur. A
forms. Some artists also consider fraktur is a specific kind of
utilitarian objects such as tools and Pennsylvania German folk art. The
costumes as folk art. For the most part, fraktur I found was a watercolor of a
the category of folk art auctions exclude marriage record. It was very colorful
works by professional artists. and looked like it held very special
It has been my experience that folk art significance to its original owners.
auctions have something for just about I found a wood box from Maine in a folk
anyone. I found a folk art painting of a art auction that really appealed to me.
cat in a peach tree that was done by the It was rather small, but was painted
artist Tascha. The artist also noted on chrome yellow and was trimmed in forest
the folk art auction that they create green. The paint was crazed and worn and
unique ceramic tile art. it was made in the late nineteenth
My mother purchased a blanket chest for century. There were no visible nails and
me years ago that I listed recently in a the hardware was reported as looking
folk art auction. The chest was made original.
about two hundred hears ago and is very The folk art auction that I missed out on
beautiful. The original painted that was way out of my price range was
decorations are still intact. for an Andrew Clemens sand bottle. The
I found an interesting folk art auction sand bottle was date 1887 and was covered
for a carnival knock-down dummy in the in patriotic decorations. It was an
shape of a large cat. It was made around apothecary style bottle with a stopper
1930 and is twice the size of similar and it contained at least ten different
items. I researched the item on a colors of sand. The bottle ended up
non-auction site and found that it is selling for eighty five hundred dollars.
worth a lot of money. I'm sure that it has ended up in an
My heart is still swayed by Americana excellent collection of folk art.
folk art auctions. I recently fell in I found an amusing folk art auction for
love with a painting I found up for three wooden carvings. The name of the
auction of Elvis on a Harley in front of piece was Three Articulating Folk Art
a large American flag. It was Whimseys and were all made by the same
spectacular! The stretched canvas was artist. The carvings were accented with
painted with acrylics. sheet metal neckties. The first carving
I especially like the Halloween themed in the folk art auction was of a cobbler,
folk art auction I found that was offered a blacksmith and a gentleman with a
by Sister Raya New Orleans Folk Art. The donkey. The second carving was a
title of the painting was Little Spooky diminutive soldier and the third was a
the Cat - Awaiting the Great Pumpkin. cobbler smoking a pipe. I think that
The painting was painted in classic this piece of Americana was purchased at
vintage style and used gold maple, red a low price of three thousand dollars and
sapphire, blue pearl, white, pumpkin was worth much more.onto a black light
orange, sable brown, amber rust and jet stand that has been built especially for
black. I would love to have this hanging them.






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