Folk art : imaginative works from American hands / Time Life Books
Contributor(s): Time-Life Books
Series: American countryPublisher: Alexandria, Virginia : Time-Life Books, c1990Description: 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 080946800X; 0809468018 (lib. bdg.)Subject(s): Folk art -- United StatesDDC classification: 745.0973 LOC classification: NK805 | .F58 1990Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | COLLEGE LIBRARY | COLLEGE LIBRARY SUBJECT REFERENCE | 745.0973 F718 1990 (Browse shelf) | Available | CL-re20198 |
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745 G578 1940 Art in everyday life / | 745 Sch86 1981 Art from many hands : multicultural art projects for home and school / | 745.09599 M533 2013 Celebrate! Decorate! / | 745.0973 F718 1990 Folk art : imaginative works from American hands / | 745.2 D46 1996 Design for environment : creating eco-efficient products and processes / | 745.2 G577 1954 Art in everyday life / | 745.2 G577 1954 Art in everyday life / |
"A Rebus book."
Includes index.
An American portrait. Rufus Hathaway ; John Brewster, Jr. ; Mementos in miniature ; Edward Hicks ; Joshua Johnson ; Jacob Maentel ; Pictures in the home ; Ammi Phillips ; Rufus Porter ; Shades of our ancestors ; Sheldon Peck ; Joseph Hidley ; William Matthew Prior ; James and John Bard ; Emma Cady ; Women folk artists ; Erastus Salisbury Field --
Art of the professional. Ship carvings ; Wooden shop figures ; Keeping shop ; Trade symbols ; Painted signboards ; Trade banners ; Fire buckets and parade hats ; Carousel animals ; The carousel ; Weather vanes ; Wildfowl decoys ; The fish decoys of Oscar Peterson ; Ceramic face jugs ; Decorated stoneware ; Sgraffito pottery ; Illuminated fraktur --
Classroom exercises. Schoolgirl needlework ; Mourning pictures ; Classroom views ; Theorem painting ; Decorated tables ; Painted scenes ; The role of prints in schoolgirl art ; Calligraphic drawing ; Paper art ; Tokens of love ; Tinsel paintings --
Expressions of the people. Decorated boxes ; Scrimshaw pie jaggers ; Ornamental canes ; Sculptures and whirligigs ; Folk sculptor John Scholl ; Homemade dolls ; Pictorial quilts ; Adam and Eve in folk art ; Table rugs ; Floor rugs --
Living with folk art. A taste for collecting ; An eclectic eye ; A love of Americana.
Presents a variety of folk art including paintings, carvings, embroidery, pottery, and household furnishings.
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