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Folk Art Auctions

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



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