FOLK ART Outsider primitive artist Animal Carved Cat wood sculpture
FOLK ART ASSEMBLAGE” Carved CAT ” BY outsider primitive artist unsigned. This sculpture like many primitive carvings made from trees or found wood. It is from my collection and artist unknown. Since the Colonial era, wood has been a key medium for American artisans creating folk-art objects in their workshops and homes. Wood has been a favorite of folk artists who, lacking training and supplies, often turned to this basic material because it was accessible. He whimsical geometry of this unique sculpture is enchanting. See photos for size About 19 inches across x 15 tall. The Sculpture does exemplify a unique primitive style and technique. S rough and with an out-of-square appearance to. On the fringe of clumsiness, enigmatic and. I plan to list more Folk Art in the future. These works include log houses, water mills, squirrels, and other mages. Vintage paintings with his mud and spinach juice renderings are hard to come by. There also are more early Tollivers and a large number of strong Sybil Gibsons etheral dusty, muted pastel paintings on grocery bags. Some great abstract works by Willie White, and Roy Ferdinand urban ghetto memory paintings. A few pieces by Mary T Smith, and a number of Calvin Livingston’s African hammered tin cutouts. Many of his paintings hang prominently in New Orleans House of Blues.. New Orelanian Welmon Sharlhorne who is known for his brilliant detailed line drawings done during his long stint at Angola Prison. Also some great retablos and dramatic yarn shields as well as beaded masks made by the indigenous Huichol Indians of Mexicos remote Sierra Madre mountains. Other self-taught artists such as MOSE TOLLIVER. The strength his work is his lack of self-consciousness as to what his art is or should be. It was his sheer impulse to create, and therein lies its power. Her clapboard and tin two-room shack was nestled in the middle of a cow pasture fenced in by barbed wire. Her porch was filled with strange sculptures. There were human, animal, and vessel forms of cracking clay embedded with mule and cow bones, teeth, fossil shells, glass, Spanish moss, and coffee grounds, identified by Juanita as Ram Men, Goat Men, and Jungle Women. The item “FOLK ART Outsider primitive artist Animal Carved Cat wood sculpture” is in sale since Friday, December 29, 2017. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “deepsouthc” and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Signed?: Unsigned
- Type: sculpture
- Material: Wood
- Style: Outsider
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small (Up to 14in.)
- Region of Origin: US-Southeast
- Date of Creation: 1970-1989
- Original/ Reproduction: original
- Size Type/ Largest Dimension: MEDIUM
- OUTSIDER ART: FOLK ART
- AFRICAN AMERICAN: SELF TAUGHT
- wood folk art: OUTSIDER