The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...
American cartoonists, whose works were originally seen primarily in the newspapers beginning at the turn of the 20th century, emulated and expanded upon a mostly European comic art tradition, ...
One often thinks of Georgia O’Keeffe as the quintessential American woman artist who painted large flowers and bones placed against the backdrop of the Southwestern landscape. O’Keeffe’s urban ...