A new Smithsonian retrospective explores the legacy of America’s beloved late bloomer, often underrated in art history ...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are ...
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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After six years in storage, four local late 19th century farmhouse murals depicting rural scenes ...
The American Folk Art Museum in New York has announced a transformative gift of 40 works in honour of the institution’s 60th anniversary, including striking examples by the self-taught ...
“It’s probably one of the most important acquisitions of an archive in our history, aside from our Henry Darger collection,” Valérie Rousseau, the museum’s senior curator, told Artnet News. “My ...
October 23, 2024 Many gameboards on view in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early ...
You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–1976). Her current exhibition at New York’s American Folk Art Museum is the self-taught Afro-Brazilian artist’s first museum ...