Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.
Vintage Handmade Child's Miniature Cook Book Drawn by Hand Folk Art
A Vintage Handmade Child's Miniature Cook Book Drawn by Hand. 4" x 6" with hand written recipes and some clipped from magazines of the time. Circa 1940 - 1945. Drawings and instructions by Carol Birkett with help from her friend Patty. 22 pages. Collection Jim Linderman
Vernacular photograph of an Anonymous Folk Art Carver
Vernacular photograph of an Anonymous Folk Art Carver. This photograph is not signed and has no identification of the maker. Looks to be fine work. I'm showing a detail, but there isn't much information cropped. This backyard rocker (rain or shine?) should have the work seen. In the folk art world, an artist often becomes recognized decades later in photos. Scanned images online often work as well as printed ones in newspapers, but if any of the following here knows the work? He was working when JFK was facing down a Ruskie, it appears.
Backyard photograph of an anonymous folk art carver, no location, circa 1965?
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb / Jim Linderman
Scenes from a Texas Immersion Baptism Vernacular photographs 1927 San Antonio
Scenes from a Texas Immersion Baptism. Each stamped on reverse 1927 San Antonio. Photographer Carl D. Newton. Collection Jim Linderman
19th Century Folk Art Painting of ripe grapes
19th Century Folk Art watercolor of ripe grapes.
Anonymous Collection Jim Linderman
(See also the book Eccentric Folk Art Drawing of the 19th and 20th Centuries)
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