AMERICAN FOLK ART IN PLACE: IN-SITU by Jim Linderman is NOW available. A large format vintage photography book which reveals hundreds of folk art environments and unique folk art sculptures as installed over the years. The book documents numerous outsider art installations (many previously unknown) and photographs of known and unknown artists at work. All photographs will be drawn from the collection of Jim Linderman, whose previous vintage photography books include the ground-breaking Take Me to the Water,The Birth of Rock and Roll and Arcane Americana. The book will be the companion to Eccentric Folk Art Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Linderman Collection. Same size, same format and also available as an affordable instant download e-book. American Folk Art In Place: In-Situ is a much expanded and revised edition of the now out of print original book of the same title. Details and a free preview of the book will follow. Inquiries to J.Winkel4@gmail.com
Shown: Untitled snapshot (Feed the Monkey) unknown location, circa 1950. Collection Jim Linderman
Michigan had several clay sewer tile factories, and like the others (particularly in Ohio) their workers would take unused clay at the end of the day and make whimsical pieces of pottery for friends. This sewer tile head (with a pile of tiles stacked ready for transport in the Real Photo Postcard) is signed on the base Curtis Rugge who was a pretty good sculptor. See also the essay by Marsha MacDowell and Kurt Dewhurst from 1980 titled The Sewer Tile Clay Pottery of Grand Ledge, Michigan. Interestingly, they point out that Michigan drew employees from Ohio to work for them...a small rivalry, but likely also an exchange of skills and ideas for pieces like this. Grand Ledge folk art Sewer Tile Head and Real Photo Postcardcollection Jim Linderman
The Monument of the States contained a rock from every state in the union (at the time...two of our states with the most rocks were not eligible yet) collected after Pearl Harbor. The originator of the project was Dr. Charles Bressler-Pettis. Charles did not go get the rocks. He wrote all the governors and had them send one down to Florida! It still stands! See a contributor revisit his rock below!
An extraordinary folk art drawing by Dennison W. Hammond of Sommerville, MA. 1876. It was drawn, in ink, on the front endpaper of an autograph / friendship book. Collection Jim Linderman Thanks to BOX LOT on Facebook.
A superstitious folk art carving. Antique American Folk Art Carving Sculpture Man in Chair Black Cat Jumps Over the Moon Circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
Antique Folk Art Statue of Liberty Trade Figure from the turn of the century. The massive sculpture on Liberty Island in Manhattan was installed in 1886. Soon after this 34 inch folk art carving was created. Note construction on the base...several blocks of wood were combined to form a block, and shrinkage of the center piece has been filled at some time with putty or plaster. Found in Pennsylvania.
Pen-pricked tracings have been used by quilters and embroidery creators for decades, though the art has pretty much died out. It allows designs to be copied. Above, a parlor game with someone using what could have been THE EDISON ELECTRIC PEN AND DUPLICATING MACHINE creates "Hand of prominent politician" which was apparently rubbed with orange chalk to create a stencil.
The artist from Michigan had a demented view of Florida, but he shared them in a trio of letters to a pair of snowbirds wintering down south. Trio of racist hand drawn postal envelopes sent from Michigan to Florida 1949 Collection Jim Linderman
Champion Whittler C. A. Huges Wooden Figure and Uncle Sam Folk Art Original press photograph edited by hand before publication 1927 Arkansas Collection Jim Linderman
