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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The peculiar charm of their work results sometimes from what would be technical inadequacies from the academic point of view distortion curiously personal perspective and what not. But they were not simply artists who lacked adequate training. The work of the best of them has a directness unity and a power which one does not always find in the work of standard masters. In the half century since these words were written by Holger Cahill who assisted Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in her early collecting of American folk art these powerful and charming images have been ever more enthusiastically embraced. The Folk Art Center at Colonial Williamsburg has played a key role in the growth of knowledge and the under- standing of this art. American Folk Paintings is the second volume of the series presenting the holdings of the Center widely considered the finest public collection of American folk art. The non-portrait paintings and drawings include many of the Center’s most important and appealing works and also offer some of the most interesting considerations for the study of the field. Moreover while folk portrait painting the subject of the first volume was virtually supplanted in the 1860s by the advent of photography the non-portrait forms have continued into the twentieth century. (OS)