Kenneth Hetrick Fills the Skies. Bulbuous Airships in Yellow

Army Plnes (Planes) by Kenneth Hetrick 1931.  Collection Jim Linderman
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A Sexy Chair Risque Drawing by Willard Fitzgerald c. 1945

A Sexy Chair   Risque Drawing by Willard Fitzgerald c. 1945  Collection Jim Linderman

Rubber Stamp Hair A Dame with Nothing on her Mind but Dates

November 16, 1941 Rubber Stamp Hair.  Caption "Ever see a dame with nothin' but dates on her mind?"  Drawing by Willard Fitzgerald 1941 Collection Jim Linderman
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Vintage Folk Art New York City Subway Car Painting Drawing by Frank De Sio 1958 Collection Jim Linderman

Vintage Folk Art New York City Subway Car Painting Drawing by Frank De Sio 1958 Collection Jim Linderman

BIG TONY

Big Tony original drawing by "TM" (see trunks) circa 1945  Collection Jim Linderman

Feeding the Orphans 19th Century Folk Art Drawing

Anonymous folk art drawing titled on reverse "Feeding the Orphans"

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19th Century Folk Art Drawing Kings Corner Schoolhouse Ohio by Ora Maxwell

The artist has included a pump, a weather vane, a bell and a notice tacked on the building.  
19th Century Folk Art Drawing Kings Corner Schoolhouse Ohio by Ora Maxwell (You may also enjoy seeing the book Eccentric Folk Art Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries HERE)   Collection Jim Linderman

Witch with Pumpkin original anonymous watercolor dated 1911 Collection Jim Linderman

Witch with Pumpkin original watercolor dated 1911 Collection Jim Linderman
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Antique Folk Art Drawing Man with a Whip 19th Century collection Jim Linderman

Antique Folk Art Drawing Man with a  Whip 19th Century collection Jim Linderman
Drawn by a student circa 1874, it depicts one of her teachers.

Horses Pencil and Ink circa 1912 from a Schoolboy's Sketchbook Collection Jim Linderman Folk Art Drawing

Horses Pencil and Ink circa 1912 from a Schoolboy's Sketchbook Collection Jim Linderman Folk Art Drawing

Art Lessons 1917

A group of primitive still life art lessons  1917

Pair of 19th Century Folk Art Children's Drawings by Harry Moar More Folky than Children's Drawings of Today?

Two consistent drawings by young Harry Moar which I am dating to around the turn of the century.  The 19th one.   They are signed on the reverse, so young Harry had an idea of his own capabilities as an artist, or his parents did.  Some young and naive artists have no idea they should imprint their stamp on a work until they are told to claim it.  It would take a mighty precocious child to sign his work before being told.

Lined paper such as this came into being around 1900.

19th century drawings by children look more like folk art to me than those done today.    A children's art specialist could tell me more (and maybe one will write in) but these just look more folky than kids draw today.  


Now that kids draw with the "help" of touch pads these days... I won't have anything to find at antique shows, and I suspect they'll all start to look more or less the same.
 
Pair of original 19th century drawings by Harry Moar.  Collection Jim Linderman

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Tee Hee Hee Jester and Dogs circa 1900 Drawing

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Child's Drawing circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman

The Albatross of Maine Charles Tower's Fantasy Bird from the Insane Hospital collection Jim Linderman

The Insane Hospital of Augusta, Maine opened in 1840, but much of it burned down ten years later.  Since there were so many insane people in Maine  (they turned down 100 applications for lack of space) they rebuilt in 1854.  By 1900 they had over 1,000 inhabitants.

I do not know when Charles Tower was admitted, but this drawing and fantasy story about the Albatross of Maine was certainly done before 1900.  You can read it, but I think it made more sense to Charles than it will to you.

Letter and Drawing by Charles W. Tower, Augusta Insane Hospital circa 1880?  Collection Jim Linderman

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Folk Art Calligraphic Dove Asks to Limit Wheat Consumption Collection Jim Linderman

I am not sure which land fight, crop failure, state line or health concern motivated a young woman named Angel to produce this piece of art, but it does add a bit of mystery to the drawing.  I do know whatever it was took place in the mid to late 19th century, and the wheat shaft being consumed by an insect might provide a clue to the solution.  Maybe it is that little bugger who should eat less.

19th Century original Calligraphic Dove with message "Eat Less Wheat" by Angel Carnegessi. Collection Jim Linderman

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Little Alvin Enck's Bible The Lord's Limousine and a Racy Poem

Little Alvin Enck is my kind of fellow.  On the first page of his Holy Bible he has marked his territory with a little drawing of the Lord's Limousine, but on the last page he has written what for the time would have been a most racy poem.  I think Alvin struggled with the same temptation we all did.  It was the depression...I hope this isn't the only thing Alvin got for Christmas that year...it looks like he was hoping for a toy car.)

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Alvin Enck's embellished Holy Bible 1935 Collection Jim Linderman

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Well Rendered Drawing from the Photograph CDV Art History

Practice makes perfect.


Anonymous primitive drawing based on a CDV Photograph 1884. Photograph Curtiss & Smith, Syracuse New York with Pencil sketchbook. Collection Jim Linderman

Talking Chalk and Talk Chalkers Glenn Beck Hijacks an Art Form to Line his Pockets Chalk Talk

The ill-informed and dangerous charlatan Glen Beck made me concerned enough to look into chalk talk. Before the millionaire fraud hijacked the former vaudeville trick and started using his chalkboard "skills" to foster corporate greed under the guise of patriotism (and convince many of his floundering middle-class audience to act against their own best interests) chalk talking was an art, a skill and for many a profession. Of course, Glenn has nowhere near the skill and talent of the old guys, especially since his accompanying patter is so vile and poorly researched.

Beck is just one more of the swindlers who have taken the all-too-trusting American public for a big money grab in our history, a buffoon and tool who takes advantage of confused and scared masses to line his own pockets. As such he falls squarely into the long line of snake-oil salesmen, carnival barkers, faith-healers and quacks who litter our history. Beck is pretty good at it...His income in 2009 is reported at $32 million dollars. As his viewership hovers around a million per televised episode, that's about thirty bucks each...money which might better applied to individual gold purchases (though that is another of his scams being investigated.)

I'm not sure he even uses the chalkboard any longer, as he has been so soundly ridiculed for it, but the craft was once a quite beautiful thing. The examples here all come from the splendid book "Bright Beams from the Blackboard" by Hy Pickering. No date, but certainly approaching 100 years old. As you can see, Pickering fell into the "tell a good moral lesson" category of chalk talkers rather than, oh...I guess what you could call the "Amos and Andy logic out a financial transaction" chalk practice. You know..."take the 7 and deduct it from the 12...see? You owes me 50 dollars." A slightly racist example from vaudeville history, but still exactly what Beck does when he befuddles his audience with poorly drawn crud and poorly drawn conclusions.

Pickering, on the other hand, is presenting art of the highest order, and with practice, some slate and some chalk, an art available to anyone who can draw a straight line. (Like the straight line Glenn Beck makes right to the bank)

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Spring Bird, Passing Grade, One Mistake

A charming circa 1900 ink drawing of the "exterternal" Structure of a Bird from an industrious student's biology notebook. Otherwise perfect, I wonder if the misspelled title came after he spent all that time drawing the little fellow, or before. It is a beautiful little bird either way.

c. 1900 Anatomical School Child Drawing Collection Jim Linderman

Color if you like Draw if you like

Crayola comes from the French words for chalk (craie) and oily (oleaginous) which were joined in1903 by Alice Stead Binney, wife of industrialist J.W. Binney. Binney's company was responsible for RED BARNS... how iconic is that? His company created the first red paint containing red oxide. Binney's boys had also invented a carbon stick which was used to mark barrels but it was toxic, they later came up with a product safe enough for children to eat, stick in their nose or mark any surface they could reach.

Pages from Child's commercial drawing and coloring book c. 1920 collection Jim Linderman