Collection of Folk Art Carvings Mid 20th Century Collection Jim Linderman
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My Balls in a Cage Folk Art Sculpture of Wooden Whimsy
Collection of Folk Art Carvings Mid 20th Century Collection Jim Linderman
Halloween at Dull Tool Dim Bulb Jim Linderman Self-Portrait 2014
This Halloween, I'm going with Big Baby...
Self-Portrait Jim Linderman 2014
A Family Tree of Tintypes
Friend Deanna Dahlsad wrote to share this family tree made of tintypes(!) You can read about the object HERE on the Fair Oaks Antiques website. The link tells the story of the find, other "tree" photographs and the availability.
Essential New Projects on Vernacular Photography and Arkansas Roots Music from Dust to Digital
"In the 1930s, the Massengill family of rural Arkansas built three portable photography studios on old truck frames, attached each to the back of any car that would run, and started a mobile photo booth business that would last for a decade. Without formal training or help, the Massengill family invented and improvised ways to mimic the popular photo booths they had seen in drugstores and brought their business to the dirt roads and open fields they knew well. Making Pictures: Three for a Dime, featuring Massengill family prints and photo albums collected by the artist Maxine Payne, illuminates a sliver of the Depression-era South previously unseen by the public."
The Music? Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers.
“For the traveling recording men of the late 1920s, Arkansas offered enticing pickings. The region was thronged with vigorous, idiosyncratic stringbands… Scarcely more than a decade, but a period, in music as in all American life, of galvanic change.” – Tony Russell, from the album’s liner notes
I can only say ESSENTIAL. Be you collector, library, museum? This pair of high-quality packages from Dust to Digital are required.
Our Homestead Domestic Chores in a Folk Art Sculpture Dollhouse c. 1910 Real Photo Post Card
"Our Homestead" Domestic Chores in a Folk Art Dollhouse Cyko Real Photo Post Card circa 1910 unmailed.
Naive Erotic Folk Art Drawings by Pecs 1942
Erotic Naive Drawings of Pecs 1942 Each 11 x 17
Gallery Fred Giampietro exhibited a wall installation of these works art the 2015 Outsider Art Fair.
Antique Folk Art Erotic Sculpture Cigarette Holder Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Collection Jim Linderman
Vintage Folk Art Sculpture Billy Burke's 150,000 Toothpick Amusement Park from Folsom Prison
Toothpick Circus by Billy Burke Real Photo Postcard circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Mr. Winters Garden Park in Mondovi, Wisconsin. Folk Art Environment Sculpture RPPC
FIFTEEN HEROIN ABUSERS HONORED WITH UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS (The Dull Tool Dim Bulb Stupid Useless Internet List)
We have certainly had enough of those stupid internet lists. They are easy to produce, easy to post and designed for only one purpose. That is to force you to click or scroll through advertisements until your finger hurts. More annoying than pop-up ads and just as useless.
My internet list is FIFTEEN PERSONS ON UNITED STATES POSTAGE STAMPS WHO ABUSED HEROIN but you won't find any ads here unless Google force slips some in, which is both something they have been known to do…and their business model.
I've included not only heroin users, but a few opiate and morphine users to round out the list…I didn't want them all to be jazz musicians. You can look them up to verify if you like. If I had been inclined to use alcoholics, trust I would have had a hundred more to include.
In the old days, and by that I mean about the time Reagan took office, it was a considerable honor to be placed on a United States Postage Stamp. First of all, there were rigorous standards…notables had to have contributed to the American collective greatness. Highly competitive contests were run for artists to have the honor of painting the work to be shown. And yes, postage stamps were limited edition lithographs in themselves. Fine, high quality prints in miniature. Now they are just texture free pieces of paper. One need not lick them either…there is far less DNA on letters today. I am certainly NOT implying any of the above are not heroic American figures, as they certainly all are. I just needed a useless common characteristic to make my list go viral!
Today most United States postage stamps are crap from major U.S. corporations. Disney. Entertainment companies. The post office licenses them from business. The honor is pretty much gone, as is the denomination. Stamps are now "forever" stamps, but there is no longer a reason to keep them that long in a collector's album. They are, for the most part, "product" from corporations who already take far too much of our time and money. I purchased Batman stamps today. An American hero of sorts, but while they don't say it on the stamp, merely an ad for the next movie in the franchise.
Antique Folk Art Carved Figural Folk Art Pipe
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Marguerite's Magnificent Miniature Scrapbook c. 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
Marguerite's Magnificent Miniature Scrapbook is a mere 2" x 4" but manages to master the form. c. 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
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Vintage Folk Art Turkey Wishbone Patriotic Crochet Good Luck World War One Era
The history of breaking a turkey wishbone, actually the Furcula bone, is well documented and goes way back. But when is the last time you saw one wrapped in patriotic colors of yarn with silk ribbon and UNBROKEN for nearly 100 years? I hope he came home safe.
Vintage Folk Art Turkey Wishbone Patriotic Crochet Good Luck World War One Era Collection Jim Linderman
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