Folk art :  imaginative works from American hands / 
Time Life Books 
 - 175 pages :   illustrations (some color) ;   29 cm. 
 - American country .
<br/><br/> "A Rebus book."  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>	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 --<br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>Living with folk art. A taste for collecting ; An eclectic eye ; A love of Americana. 
<br/><br/> Presents a variety of folk art including paintings, carvings, embroidery, pottery, and household furnishings. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>080946800X 0809468018 (lib. bdg.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89077352  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folk art--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NK805  / .F58 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>745.0973