Vintage Whirligig Folk Art Sculpture Collection Jim Linderman
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Showing posts with label Folk Art Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Folk Art Sculpture. Show all posts
Antique Erotic Folk Art Sculpture Carving Baleen or Bone Carved Cigarette Holder Nude Woman
Boy Scout Vintage Folk Art Sculpture Pharrell Williams and Baden Powell
By all accounts, bright star of the year is Pharrell, and his recent performance on the Grammy show with NILE RODGERS, praise be to him...was a sensation. Pharrell is a genius and I am glad to be sharing time and space with him. He appears to be, literally, one of those performers we are lucky to have while we are here. But while his hat is from Vivienne Westwood, I think Robert Baden Powell created it.
Original Relief Carved Boy Scout Folk Art Carving Collection Jim Linderman
Boyscout Photo from Wikipedia
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Best Bulldog Vintage Folk Art Dog Sculpture
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Folk Art Carving Sculpture Walking Crybaby Collection Jim Linderman
19th Century Polychrome Carved Folk Art Man of Wood
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Dull Tool Goes Native! Folk Art Sculpture of the Semi-Erotic kind.
Untitled Folk Art Carving circa 1950? Collection Jim Linderman
Antique Folk Art Sculpture of Ned Cheeryble from Nicholas Nickelby
Antique Folk Art Sculpture of Ned Cheeryble from Nicholas Nickeby circa 1850
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BIG Antique Folk Art Sculpture Articulated Figure of a Ballerina Puppet Collection Jim Linderman
Collection Jim Linderman
Handcarved Miniature Folk Art Toy Plow collection Jim Linderman
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19th Century Wooden Carved Folk Art African-American Man
LET'S RIDE ! Bowlegged Early American Folk Art collection Jim LInderman
"Howdy Mam. Can I get a drink around here?" Obviously having ridden all day and night, a cowpoke finally makes it to his destination. Bowlegged...that is unless our unfortunate cowpoke suffers from Genu Varum. I think he does, actually.
Horse and Rider Folk Art circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
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King of the Squirrels Sideshow Shooting Gallery Target Squirrel
My "King of the Squirrels" shooting gallery target comes courtesy Candler Arts, a fine web source for unusual American folk art, primitives and curiosities. Run by Kevin Duffy, the site is always a visual treat. The Candler Arts blog shows a wide variety of objects, consistently worth seeing, and the corresponding gallery offers select items for sale. A good reason to look is posted now, as the wonderful sideshow "game of numbers" shown below is there now.
I bought King Squirrel as I have been overrun. The house is surrounded by giant maple trees, and this seems to have been a particularly heavy season for helicopter seeds. You know the kind. Evolution designed them to twirl down to the ground slowly, whirling as they go, to provide the seed a soft landing. They make a feast for squirrels. They have become every bit as annoying as pigeons were to me in the city, but without wings. Unlike pigeons, you see the young, and even they fly from tree to tree like tiny Tarzans with tails. They can expect to live about six years...unless I get good here with King.
Early cast iron shooting gallery targets came in racks and this one has the original mount and cotter which held it on. I suspect the KING tag is probably as that was the manufacturer or name of the touring carnival.
Candler Arts blog is HERE and the.gallery is HERE
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Game of Numbers Courtesy Candler Arts |
Early 20th Century Cast Iron Shooting Gallery Target collection Jim Linderman
Folk Art Sculpture Man with a Bowler c. 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
Man with a Bowler Hat Folk Art Sculpture, 15 inches tall, 27 inches around. Circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
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Mrs. Labelle and her Giant Papier Mache Heads Stephen Milanowski Photographer
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COPYRIGHT STEPHEN MILANOWSKI
While the site here may seem to be about photos, art and antiques, It is actually about stories. I'd like to consider myself a visual artist of sorts, one who uses things to tell stories.
There may be no better combination of "thing and story" than this one, and it comes to me courtesy master photographer Stephen Milanowski, who fortunately got in touch after I posted a big head. I found MY big head in the rafters of an antique store in Spring Lake, Michigan, where it cried out to me for several years before I took him down, talked THEM down (in price) and took him home. I posted the big baby HERE.
Imagine my surprise when I received a splendid present in the mail. A substantial and beautiful catalog from the Museum of Modern Art, their 2012 Appointment Calendar. Mr. Milanowski has a photo in the book, one which is in the MOMA permanent collection.
Nice as the book is, the card enclosed is what surprised me! Same scale, same surface, same curious holes in the head...My big baby had a FATHER and he had his portrait taken by an artist.
Mr. Milanowski (who has a splendid website HERE with some serious examples of his work over the years) later took the time to tell me the story. If you deal with the kind of material I love, the story is frequently as important as the object..and this is a good one.
I'll let Stephen tell it in his own words.
"How the Hell indeed. Some time ago, I believe on a FB posting of yours...I happened to notice, purely by chance, a snapshot of you in a den-like room, presumably in your home--and this snapshot showed you in that room with some of your collection...and I suddenly notice partly seen, in the corner of your room...Mrs. Labelle's Papier Mache Head. The Head I Photographed. And, my question was...How the Hell did Jim get his hands on Mrs. Labelle's Head?"
"The short version: before my wife and I & children moved to Madison, we lived in East Grand Rapids (my home town) for many years. On our street in EGR there lived a goofy old lady who, when I was introduced to her--I realized that she was the girls gym teacher and drama teacher at my High School--Catholic Central. I was introduced to her on her front porch...and I could tell that her house was worth being nosy about...I could see rampant pink everywhere in the interior--just by looking through the porch windows. When I then told her that I was an alum of the HS where she long taught (though then she was long retired)--she immediately invited me in--and I could tell this house was going to be a photographer's paradise. Mrs. Labelle gave me a tour...even into her basement...and it was there that she kept at least these 3 great and ancient papier mache Mardi Gras- style heads that she had long ago made for some drama class at Catholic Central. I flipped when I saw them and immediately asked if I could borrow them for photography; she said yes...and there you are."
"Every year in our neighborhood she would put the heads out on her porch for Halloween night. I should have asked her right then and there if she would sell them to me...but I could tell that she was quite attached to them."
"What I assume happened next is this--we later moved to Madison, she eventually died...and someone either got them in an estate sale...or they ended up in an antique store. And somewhere along the line...the head presented itself to you. Fill me in on the rest of the story."
"By the way--the promo card I sent you is also a Head by Mrs. Labelle."
SM
Stephen Milanowski also has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The High Museum of Art and the Polaroid Collection. His Facebook page is HERE
The Museum of Modern Art Store (which is the finest shop for gifts in Manhattan) is HERE
Mrs. Labelle's Big Head Collection Jim Linderman
The Extraordinary Wood Carvings of Anonymous 1921 Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman
Some serious folk art wood carving by Anonymous, who was so good he even had his own special "wood carving coveralls" for when the chips began to fly! Too bad there is no identification on the photo reverse, but at least we know the work depicted was finished around 1921. Close-ups here show not only the remarkable carving, but his weapon of choice.
Anonymous snapshot of a folk art furniture maker and carver, 1921 Collection Jim Linderman
Tip of the Hat to Joey Lin of Anonymous Works
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