How to Draw Curves with a Straight Line? I guess use this large (18" tall) Triangle drafting tool. Etched and Inked by hand! Our draftsman had something on his mind other than work. Maybe a new tattoo?
Hand-etched erotic Drawing / Drafting Triangle. Collection Jim Linderman
Hand-Painted Turn of the Century Scrapbook with Canine Cut-Ups. No Date, circa 1920, I believe collected and collaged by a young girl. Collection Jim Linderman
Concrete African-American Man Flower Pot Decoration, made in a mold and painted by hand. No date.
Adonis 1936 Original drawing by Wm. Fitzgerald
Shooting Gallery Carnival Sideshow Hand-Painted Sign Banner on canvas. Somewhat cryptic instructions. "Shoot off Hand?" Mid 20th Century collection Jim Linderman
Old Folk Art Primitive Goose in Flight Whirligig. Abstracted Sculpture bird form. Circa 1950. Collection Jim Linderman
Adairsville, Georgia is about halfway between Atlanta, GA and Chattanooga, TN. Route 75 probably allows one to skirt the roadside craft folk one could have run into during the 1930s, but it looks like Mrs. J. A. Greene did all right. Hooked Rugs and knick-knacks of wood likely made by her son. Folk Art of the rural South. RPPC dated 1941 Collection Jim Linderman
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MAN ITS COOL! OH MAN ITS AWAY OUT! My long beatnik cigarette holder is good, because my hip doctor dadio told me to "stay away from cigarettes!"
Imported Hong Kong popular culture. Thanks and a way-out howl to Box Lot on Ebay.
I am not disclosing the location of these beautiful cement folk art tributes in a yard in Georgia. As I recall, the artist has been written about some...but these photographs are over 20 years old and I do not know if the work still stands. Hank Aaron, an airplane, a bird. African-American Folk Art Sculpture created as environmental work tends to end up in others hands if it can be moved. I hope this work remains or has found a museum home by now.
African-American Folk Art Sculpture Yard Art in Georgia Hank Aaron Original Photographs by Jim Linderman circa 1990 - 1995.
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Primitive Mallet with Boot Heel Make-Do Repair.
Turn of the century handmade tool original Barn red paint and rubber repair
Collection Jim Linderman
There are numerous studies and photographs of blackface in the American theater, but it is a bit less common to see women…and I guess even more unusual to see young women and children. A series of cabinet card photographs circa 1910 of young vaudeville performers in burnt cork. These were essentially among the first "publicity photographs" and sold at the stage door following performances.
Original cabinet card photographs by Frank Wendt circa 1910 (Wendt was the understudy of Chas Eisenmann, famed circus freak photographer.)
Collection Jim Linderman