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The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) is the United States' first [1] and the world's oldest continually operated museum dedicated to the preservation, collection, and exhibition of American folk art. [2] Located just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, AARFAM was founded with a collection donated ...
Sister Gertrude Morgan (April 7, 1900 – July 8, 1980) [ 1][ 2] was a self-taught African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to New Orleans in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. [ 3] Sister Morgan achieved critical acclaim during her lifetime for her folk art paintings.
From simple geometric shapes to the intricately wrought details of daily life, the quilt designs in a show now running at the American Folk Art Museum show how powerfully this art form has told ...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the ...
The American Folk Art Museum continued this effort in 2013 with two exhibitions. From June 11 to September 22, the Museum hosted both Bill Traylor: Drawings From the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts , a traveling exhibition, [ 17 ] and Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections , an in-house ...
Treasures of American Folk Art, Lorenzo Scott. p. 107. Museum of American Folk Art. Abbeville Press, New York, NY. Manoguerra, Paul (organizer). 2007. Amazing Grace -- Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, (Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, September 29, 2007 ...
The museum's collection includes American and European paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, as well as glass pieces manufactured in West Virginia and the Ohio Valley, American folk art, Chinese and Japanese decorative objects, Haitian art, firearms, and decorative arts from the Near East. In addition to its permanent collections, the ...