Antique African-American Folk Art Sculpture from the Jim Linderman Collection. Ranging from the 19th to early 20th Century, a group of examples showing how African-Americans were depicted by folk artists. Some with care taken to be accurate (as limited by their artistic training) and others with a most racist tint. Exaggerated and stereotypical renderings of African-Americans were the rule in popular culture, but with some of these figures attention was taken not to offend.
19th and 20th Century Black Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings Collection Jim Linderman
Antique Folk Art Man on a String. 18 inches tall. Collection Jim Linderman
Twelve year old Donald Greene Doodles a Courtroom Drama on the Reverse of his Spelling Test 1919. Collection Jim Linderman
The Exhibition of Celestial Planets! Figures created by Occult Prophet Benny Evangelista of Detroit. Bizarre Folk Art Sculptures made in the late 1920s, and the work of a murdered bogus faith healer. Intrigued? Read my story in The Chiseler HERE titled Faith Healer Left Headless : A True Crime Tale by Jim Linderman
Original Press Photograph edited and cropped for publication Collection Jim Linderman
Patriotic Spencerian Calligraphic Penmanship from Mifflin Pennsylvania 1875 variations and practice. Collection Jim Linderman
