TY  - BOOK
ED  - Time-Life Books.
TI  - Folk art: imaginative works from American hands 
T2  - American country
SN  - 080946800X
AV  - NK805 .F58 1990
U1  - 745.0973 20
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Alexandria, Virginia
PB  - Time-Life Books
KW  - Folk art
KW  - United States
N1  - "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
N2  - Presents a variety of folk art including paintings, carvings, embroidery, pottery, and household furnishings
ER  -