Mid-Century Modern Paintings 1952 by Adele Manson Art Exercises in Color. Poster paint on board Collection Jim Linderman. Thanks to Box Lot on Facebook.
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Mid-Century Modern Paintings 1952 by Adele Manson Art Exercises in Color
Mid-Century Modern Paintings 1952 by Adele Manson Art Exercises in Color. Poster paint on board Collection Jim Linderman. Thanks to Box Lot on Facebook.
Folk Art Articulated Figure Carving Limberjacks and their Maker Vintage Folk Art Sculpture
Folk Art Articulated Figure Toy Limberjacks and the Maker. The figures appear to be miniature self-portraits in wood! See ALSO the 250 page book (and $9.99 instant download IN SITU: AMERICAN FOLK ART IN PLACE now available from blurb. Picked as a staff favorite at Blurb, and recently reviewed HERE in Collector's Weekly.
Snapshot circa 1930 (?) Collection Jim Linderman
Sewertile Sewer Pipe Folk Art End of the Day Pottery Folk Art Sculpture
Sewertile Sewer Pipe Folk Art End of the Day Pottery Folk Art Sculpture signed MACK.
Early 20th Century Collection Jim Linderman
The Famous Folk Art Hooker of Canada Elizabeth LeFort and her Tapestry Mastery
Famed hooker Elizabeth LeFort! Hooked tapestry, that is. Canada' s artist in wool!
Her first significant work was a portrait of President Ike. 16,000 loops, but that's nothing. Her tapestry of 33 United States Presidents had 750,000 loops! Not only that, she hand-dyed the wool! Dr. LeFort dropped out of school at age 12, but eventually she achieved an honorary doctorate from the Universite de Monction and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.
Watch Elizabeth LeFont dye her wool Below!
Three circa 1965 postcards collection Jim Linderman
Read more aboutElizabeth LeFort at Les Trois Pignons
Gary Panter Drawings for Pee Wee's Playhouse
Gary Panter Drawings for Pee Wee's Playhouse. Some artists don't like their sketchbooks out there, but since Mr. Panter published an entire cased-hardcover of his, I guess sharing these is okay. If he wants them down, I'll do it! Mr. Panter won three emmys for his design work on the Pee Wee Children's show. It was a most audacious endeavor. Captain Kangeroo it was not... The show was endlessly creative and subversive. Everyone I knew watched it, young and old. For a time, it proved Newton Minow wrong...not ALL television was a "vast wasteland" after all.
Gary Panter Website is HERE
Gary Panter the book is available at art book stores or amazon.
Gary Panter drawings circa 1986 (?) Collection Jim Linderman
VICE RAID
Adult Bookstore Raided! Charged with obscene and lewd. Original press photograph by Lucy Ware Morgan 1972 with press copy attached. Collection Jim Linderman
American Folk Art in Place In Situ book Collectors Weekly Review and Slideshow
Articulated Mechanical Dishwasher Antique Trade Sign from IN SITU American Folk Art in Place
Articulated Mechanical Dishwasher Antique Trade Sign from IN SITU American Folk Art in Place
Original vintage photograph Collection Jim Linderman
Sewertile Brick Clay Head of a Woman End of Day Folk Art Pottery Pipe Sculpture
Sewertile Brick Clay Head of a Woman End of Day Folk Art Pottery Sculpture. 19th Century. The figure appears to have been built up over shards and leftover materials. Collection Jim Linderman
The REAL Baby Ruth
HERE is the real Baby Ruth, with her scepter likely made of spun sugar! She is sitting smack dab in the middle of candyland. Fortunately, this professional shot (Commercial Photo Co. St. Louis, MO) is crisp and clear, providing all the detail we need to investigate the Baby Ruth story!
First of all, the company (or COMPANIES, ownership has changed a few times) didn't name the bar after Babe Ruth, but they did benefit. The Curtiss Candy Company claimed it was named after our fattest president's daughter Ruth Cleveland. However, they did it 17 years after little Ruth had died. Whaaa?
Furthermore, the company was located steps away from Wrigley Field. I smell corporate malfeasance. Sorry Babe...NO ENDORSEMENT DEAL and NO ROYALTIES! (But keep on hitting it out of the park.)
Baby Ruth started out as "Kandy Kake" and Baby Ruth came about the year Bambino hit 59 home runs. What did Grover Cleveland's daughter do that year? Nothing, she was dead.
We see here not only the lovely queen of candy, but some graveyard brands. By Jiminy. Taffee Girafee. Chum Gum. Plus, some little goober with a comb over also apparently claiming the name.
Now I have to agree Baby Ruth has really good taste. The famous scene in Caddyshack? Not such good taste, but it is the type of gag which has kept the film on the top of the "best golf films" forever.
Original 8 x 10 promotional photograph Commercial Photo Co. St. Louis, MO No date. Collection Jim Linderman
The Great Big Sunflower Plant and Science Helianthus Annuus Vintage Photograph
Long ago, I had a job which required a commute behind the wheel, and I would pass a sunflower field in the morning and again returning home in the late afternoon. The flowers were always facing me! In August, there was a big hubbub when scientists had "broken the secret" of why sunflowers face the sun. It has to do with cell growth. I could have told them that. No great miracle. Plants reach for the sun, and if it requires turning a bit, they'll do it. Here, an anonymous farmer stands next to his massive (if unfortunately named) Helianthus annuus while it stretches to meet the sun.
Vintage Snaphot photo, circa 1930 Collection Jim Linderman
Thanks to BOXLOT
Antique Folk Art Whirliwind Bowler Carved by Hand Trophy
It's going to be a hell of a ball release when our whirlwind, "full wind-up" bowler lets fly.
Folk Art Wood Carving of a Bowler (amateur trophy?) Collection Jim Linderman
A Dozen Beautiful (if bizarre...) Odd Fellow Slides
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