Crazy Quilt with Animals

1886

Designed and executed by Florence Elizabeth Marvin

American, 1856-1916

United States, New York, Brooklyn Heights

AIC

Contained Cotton Crazy Quilt, Lancaster County PA, 1880s

Johann Heinrich Otto (American, Pennsylvania Dutch, c.1733-c.1800) Fraktur of a Parrot, c. 1785 Ink & watercolor, 208 × 165 mm (8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.) Baltimore Museum of Art 1967.76.3

leaping deer, artist unidentified, circa 1860. ink on woven paper

Mary K. Borkowski | American Folk Art

Man on a Bench • 1946

Horace Pippin (American, 1888-1946)

School Studies • 1944

AMERICAN FOLK ART PICTORIAL HOOKED RUG / MAT

featuring a spotted dog in silhouette against a repeating rectangular border.

Jeffrey Evans

A more manageable pear

12 epi cotton seine warp, wool weft

bill traylor. blue rabbit running 1939-42

Here’s an incredible grave carved by Benjamin Collins. He was known for so called “shallow carving” in that he didn’t cut too deep into the stone. But what a work of art this grave is. Not only is the soul effigy very unique but there are eight pinwheel designs, meant to symbolize the gates of eternity. Also, what looks like the sun and the moon are seen below the soul and between the two pinwheels at the top of the stone. Benjamin Collins was the carver Zerubbabel’s father. This burial ground is an intense place to visit. If that is, you enjoy seeing strange folk-art on old gravestones from the 18th century.

The Old Yard

Columbia CT 8/18/22

Erastus Salisbury Field (American, 1805-1900) • Mrs. Paul Smith Palmer and her Twins • 1835-38 • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Hmmm...not only are they flat but the subjects of this peculiar portrait appear to be missing ears.

"Farmyard Scene" (1872-1874) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American painter.

American Folk Art Print on Pittoresko, Etsy Shop. Digital Download https://www.etsy.com/shop/Pittoresko

Lee Godie (American, 1908-1994) - Portrait of a Woman.   Ballpoint pen and paint on canvas. 

American Folk Art.  Untitled (Button Pictures, two works) buttons, fabric, thread flowers, n/d.