(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 ...

But as conventional as Prior’s composition may have been, Lawson’s sitting for the portrait was a radical statement, says Emelie Gevalt, a curator at New York’s American Folk Art Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

She showed two new self-portraits of her during her pregnancy ... thinks there is a growing convergence in the art world between fine art, folk art and spirituality. This is in part a reaction ...

“The Song is Still Being Written: The Folk Music Portrait Project” by Barry Schneier ... It’s one of the true art forms that really is a personal self-expression,” he told me.