American Folk Art, American Outsider Art and American Self-Taught Art

American Folk, Outsider and Self-Taught Art

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(above: Ammi Phillips, Betsey Beckwith, c. 1815-1820, oil on canvas, 30.4 x 4.5 inches, Brooklyn Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Arnett, Paul and Arnett, William S. Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 1: African American Vernacular Art of the South: The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf. Tinwood Books, 2000

Arnett, Paul and Arnett, William S. Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2: African American Vernacular Art. Tinwood Books, 2001

Axelrod, Alan and Harry Oster. The Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore. Penguin Reference, 2000

Bonner, Simon J. American Folk Art: A Guide to Sources. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984:

Ruth Keene, James O. Keene. American Folk Arts from the Collection of Ruth and James O. Keene Published 1960 by Detroit Institute of Arts. 40 pages.

Livingston , Jane and Beardsley, John. Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980. University Press of Mississippi, 1989

Merger, George H. (editor). Folk Artists Biographical Index. Detroit: Gale, 1987

Percy, Ann and Zimmerman, Cara, "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, Yale University Press, 2013, 288 pages

"Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection

Rosenak, Chuck and Jan. Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide. New York: Abbeville Press, 1996. At Abbeville Press website look in subject categories for "American Art," Go to Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector's Guide for view of Table of Contents, Text Excerpt [Introduction].

Rosenak, Chuck and Jan. Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990

Sellen, Betty - Carol. Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000.

Richard J. Wattenmaker, Alain G. Joyaux, American Naive Paintings: The Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection : Flint Institute of Arts, December 6, 1981-January 24, 1982 The Institute, 1981 - 95 pages

Wilson, Charles Reagan, and William Ferris (editors). "Arts and Crafts." (by John Michael Vlach). Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989

TFAO extends appreciation to Daniel Alpaca Gold for suggesting information for this topic.

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