(Folk art portraits are decorative, but they also served as record of the family - selfies weren't invented yet.) "Folk art is a connection to people. We wonder who made it, who it was made for ...

Appraisal: Folk Art Portrait of a Girl and Her Cat, ca. 1830 We contacted appraiser Marybeth Keene for an updated appraisal of this object in today's market. Current Appraised Value: $25,000 - $ ...

As she gazes reflectively around the room, the young faces of an earlier America look down on her from folk-art portraits lining the walls. Throughout the 12 rooms of this house and the Littles ...

Among the most enterprising folk artists of his day was Erastus Salisbury Field, ”a very resourceful one for keeping solvent,” according to folk art authority ... career as a portrait artist.

Below, almost overshadowed, he added “Portrait and Miniature Painter.” Visitors to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., can see the flourish of his ...

Appraisal: Ohio Folk Art Double Portrait, from Cleveland. Watch C. Wesley Cowan's appraisal of an Ohio folk art double portrait, in Cleveland. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ...

(each) (image courtesy Skinner, Inc. and the American Folk Art Museum) A pair of portraits by Brewster have been promised to the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York on the occasion of its ...

In the particular portrait in question ... Christie’s head of American furniture, Folk and Outsider Art, told me. “The person who acquired the contents of the unit knew this painting was ...

A painting sold at auction in Boston over the weekend has set a new record in an obscure but cherished corner of the art world that has a long history in New England ...