The Authentic Eye: Revisiting Folk Art Masterworks.The Authentic Eye David Wheatcroft David Wheatcroft Antiques, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control 26 West Main Street, Westborough, MA 01581 No ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m $50.00 1-508-366-1723 www.davidwheatcroft.com "The Authentic Eye: Revisiting Folk Art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. Masterworks" is a privately published compendium of 68 works of art which taken collectively provide a retrospective of some of the most significant artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. and artworks that antiquities dealer David Wheatcroft has been privileged to represent over the past 25 years. This 96-page, full color, coffee--table sized paperback showcases full page reproductions with their individual captions being collected together in the back of the book rather than take up room on the illustrated pages themselves. From Ammi Phillips' 1840 oil painting 'Portrait of James Mairs Salisbury'; to the 'Sailor Whirligig (carved on polychromed pine, New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , early 19th century); to Mattie Mast Kaufman's 'Amish Crazy Quilt' c. 1910-1920, The Authentic Eye is a veritable showcase of home-grown American fold art and artistry that is a simple pleasure to browse through from beginning to end. Indeed, The Authentic Eye is a perfect template that could (and should) be used as a model for other collectors and antique dealers for similar celebrations of early American folk art. |
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