2006-2010 Resource Library articles and essays
with the topic "American Folk Art, American Outsider Art and American Self-Taught Art"
(above: Bill Traylor, Man on White,
Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog, double sided, 1939-1942, tempera
and graphite on paper, 18 7/8 x 24 inches, Christie's. Public domain, via
Wikimedia Commons*)
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American Folk Art, American Outsider Art and American Self-Taught Art." Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands (8/2/10)
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen (727/10)
Vernacular Visions: Folk Art of Old Newbury; article by John Hardy Wright (12/15/09)
Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding (12/10/09)
Nina Fletcher Little: Bridging the Worlds of Antiques and Folk Art; article by Ruth Wolfe (11/5/09)
Earl Cunningham's America (7/17/09)
American Vernacular: Folk Art from the Collection; essay by James Steward (5/4/09)
Culprits, Innocents and Outsiders: Heartland Visions (5/4/09)
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum; essay by Mark Pascale (4/4/09)
James Castle: A Retrospective (12/16/08)
Earl Cunningham's America (9/20/08)
The Cosmic Visions of Ed Nelson; essay by Peter Hastings Falk (3/8/08)
The Needle's Song: The Folk Art of Ethel Wright Mohamed; with text by Jill R. Chancey (6/4/07)
The Truth in Black and White; By Charles Russell (2/5/07)
Take Me to the River (8/26/06)
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