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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.

Victorian Spencerian Graphic Calling Card with a basket and rose

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Victorian Spencerian Graphic Calling Card with a basket and rose. A very fine original hand drawn card with calligraphy. Colored by hand....

Justin McCarthy Nude by the Pool Watercolor c. 1930

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Justin McCarthy “Nude by the Pool” c. 1930 Watercolor. Ex collection Tom Armstrong (former director Whitney Museum) Illustrated in Justin ...

Folk Art Hand Carved Organ and Musician

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Handmade Folk Art Organ and Player. I don’t know much about this hand carved figure playing his organ with LOTS of wooden parts…other than ...

Andrew Clemans Sand Artist original postcard 19th century Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

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The one of a kind sand art bottles of Andrew Clemens are well known to 19th century American Folk Art collectors. I recently found this pos...

Joe Chesnut Master Whittler and Wood Carver Folk Art Sculpture Real Photo Postcard

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Joe Chesnut and his handmade train. Note large group of whimsy carvings lower right. Miniature tools, good luck charms, chain Real Photo ...

Estorica and 7 Zephyrs Primitive Erotic Novels from Mexico in the 1950s.

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Alas a project I may never get to, the photo-porn of 7 Zephyrs and Estorica Press. Remember the mimeograph machine? 7 Zephyrs Press was a ...

Justin McCarthy American Artist early drawing Skinanboan's. Collection Jim Linderman

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Justin McCarthy 1891 - 1977 McCarthy’s works in a serial format were created not long after his release from Rittersville State Home for...

A Vintage Mechanical Gag Postcard of a Cow and a Drawn by Hand copy! Both Mailed.

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A pair of “mechanical” postcards, one printed and the other a bootleg! The gag is to pull down a strip of paper revealing the udders. Both...

Lauren Leja Storywear at the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton, MA

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Artist Lauren Leja expands the concept of the book and writing. Her incessant coating of objects with hand-written text is less about obsess...

Rover the Folk Art Dog by Jim Linderman

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This little dog holds a story and some advice. The dog, once named “Rover” passed through my hands 25 years ago. While in line for one of t...

Easter. The Empty Tomb folk art environment of B. F. Perkins

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Reverend B. F. Perkins was a veteran and a preacher. B.F. stood for Benjamin Franklin. He built this tomb in Bankston, Alabama near the Hea...

Herman Bridgers Repurposes a Coca Cola Slow School Crossing Sign

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Artist Herman Bridgers of North Carolina created the astounding sculpture on the left (which I believe was a yard sentry) by repurposing a C...

Antique Folk Art Drawing 19th on hand stitched fabric Young Woman and Man. Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb

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Young woman and man hand-drawn on stitched fabric,19th Century Folk Art. Signed on reverse Elsie Larue Moyer. Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb...

Rattlesnake Sculpture from Texas.

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On reverse “1090 Rattle Snakes represented in this design to be seen at Buckhorn Saloon. San Antonio, Texas” “Combination Design representi...

World's Largest Last Supper made of Buttons ! Norman C. Engler of Arkansas

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One never knows where a postcard will lead. In this case, to a rendition of the last supper made of buttons. Thousands of them! The piece i...

19th Century Folk Art Drawing Civil War Vet with Determination

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I love amateur artists who draw their own frames. It’s like they know they deserve one. This wonderful little folk art drawing depicts what...

Moses Ogden New York Folk Art Sculpture Outsider Art Real Photo Postcard dated 1916

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A truly extraordinary Real Photo Post Card of the Moses Ogden folk art environment dated 1916. Turned up by Natalie Curley. I was hoping th...

Ted the Teddy Bear Receives Repairs

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We had some surgery on Ted, single family owned for over 50 years. Amateur repairs had given him a character we wanted to preserve. The emp...

Wayne B. Blouch "Men Conducting business" 19th century folk art Drawing

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Wayne B. Blouch "Men conducting business" 19th century folk art Drawing Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Vintage Folk Art Puppet Head late 19th / early 20th century

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Vintage Folk Art Puppet Head late 19th / early 20th century. "Hair" is wool. Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb
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