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Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.

Old Folk Art Cat (Early Weathervane Fragment Folk Art Cat) Collection Jim Linderman

Wood doesn't last long outside, which is why most weathervanes that remain are metal. This one was made by hand, likely using a pattern...

Surly Punk mans the Ball Toss at the Carnival Vernacular Photograph collection Jim Linderman

Click to Enlarge to browse "PRIZES" Undated photograph (Ball Toss) Collection Jim Linderman

Pin Up Pete Comic Book 1952 Pete Spins some Wartime Yarn

What were they thinking? The book Commies, Cowboys and Jungle Queens calls this pre-code debacle "a blatant vehicle for sexual fantasy...

Find the Drunken Duck (German Health Club)

"Gesenheit Verfin" translates to "Health Club"...so this is a joke photo, unless you feel beer is good for your health, ...

STUMP MAN Folk Art Vernacular Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

Close relative to the Scarecrow . Untitled Vernacular Photograph (Ephemeral Sculptural Figure) circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

Doris Doesn't Bite (But Eats the Sandwich) Depression Era Dating Homemade Note collection Jim Linderman

Looks like someone tried to buy a date with some food, but Doris calls the shots. I thank you very much for the sandwich and would love to h...

Wynton and Eric. There IS a God, and He Paired two Masters

I'm not a big fan of Jazz, but I am a HUGE fan of Wynton Marsalis. As I have said before, if you ever have a chance to see him, you wil...

Contortionist Helen Paguin of Canada RPPC Jim Linderman Collection

A perfect "V" and an incredible set of real photo postcards of young Helen Paguin of Western Canada, Vaudevillian and child perfor...

Rudolph Rossi Photographs at Au Boudoir Art Space Santa Fe November 2011

CLICK TO ENLARGE CLICK TO ENLARGE The first public showing of the original photographs of Rudolf Rossi in Santa Fe at Au Boudoir Art Space t...

Good Advice from Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Anonymous snapshot, circa 1930? Collection Jim Linderman

Andy Rooney and E.B White Essays a TRIBUTE

Few of us are lucky enough to have worked with greatness, but I have. Way back during my hard-boiled drunk librarian days, I was fortunate ...

World's Tallest Cowboy ?

A big man thunders along the street in Colorado, 1931. Someone hired a giant. I suspected this could be an unknown photograph of Robert Wa...

Missing Mother? CDV Photographs Tinted by Hand

CLICK TO ENLARGE Three original Cartes de Visite photographs from San Francisco around 1880, maybe a bit earlier, maybe a bit later. They w...

SPOILED vernacular photograph collection Jim Linderman

CLICK TO ENLARGE On reverse "Andrew Patterson Age 2 " Vernacular snapshot, circa 1940? Collection Jim Linderman BOOKS by Jim Lin...

Plane Poontang Pin Ups from Flying Fortress Flyers

Nearly 80,000 men were lost during the second world war missions by the U.S. Army Air Forces. Some 10,000 planes were shot down. It was th...

Perfect Practice At the Circus in Black and White #28 Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Untitled Photograph (Practice) Circa 1960 Collection Jim Linderman AT THE CIRCUS in BLACK and WHITE is a continuing series on Dull Tool Dim...

Cuba Si Real Photo Postcard set of Tropical Paradise RPPC

Tropical paradise Cuba a few decades before Batista, before the mob tried to make the place their own personal Vegas and before Fidel kicked...

Milk of Amnesia by Donna Lethal The Real Deal

PHOTO BY CRAIG SEMETKO I like to say this blog is about authenticity, and you can not get any more authentic than Donna Lethal, a woman I lo...

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