300 Years American Folk Art Painters / Illustrated Book

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Featuring 159 color plates and 67 text illustrations, this scarce out-of-print text provides an in-depth survey of early American folk art. 

AMERICAN FOLK PAINTERS OF THREE CENTURIES was edited by Jean Lipman and Tom Armstrong, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. N.Y. with Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980 First Edition.

This remarkable book "focuses on the finest identified painters of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Individual chapters by twenty-one outstanding authorities cover the lives and works, the colorful personalities, and the travels of thirty-seven artists, including Jose Raphael Aragon, Hannah Cohoon, Erastus Salisbury Field, Rufus Hathaway, Edward Hicks, Morris Hirshfield, John Kane, Sheldon Peck, Ammi Phillips, Joseph Pickett, and Horace Pippin. Many chapters are especially fascinating for the stories of detective work involved in tracking down paintings and the artists responsible for them". [Subjects] include portraits, landscapes, historical and biblical scenes, ship's portraits, city views, still lifes, and visionary works that are surreal in their intensity. Many of these paintings, astonishing in their power, originality and beauty, are reproduced in color for the first time." This volume also includes an afterword "that summarizes the history of six decades of activity in the field: the key collectors, dealers, exhibitions, and publications. It also includes an exhaustive bibliography and index." Indeed, this is "an indispensable reference and pictorial source for everyone interested in American art, folk art, and Americana."

Heavy / oversize 10.9" x 11" hardback with dust cover in protective plastic sleeve in very good condition . 233 pages.

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