| What is Folk Art Auctions? | | | | rust and jet black to complete the piece. A lovely |
| Folk art auctions usually feature a varied range of | | | | painting indeed! I would love to have this hanging on my |
| objects that display the artist's craft traditions and | | | | wall all through the autumn months, if I can. |
| traditional social standards. Folk art is produced by | | | | Another folk art auction that I attended was so |
| people who have very little or no academic artistic | | | | depressing as I couldn't afford to bid as it was beyond |
| training. What they do is to use established techniques | | | | my budget. It was a handmade set of minuscule |
| and styles of a specific region or culture which they | | | | dominoes. The set was in a folk art decorated maple |
| are familiar with to work on the piece of art. | | | | box. The set dates from the mid to late 1800's. It was |
| Such folk art auctions include paintings, sculptures and | | | | really exquisite and I'm unhappy that I have missed out |
| other decorative art forms. Some artists also consider | | | | on it. |
| practical objects like tools and costumes as folk art. | | | | I really like a new folk art auction that I found for a |
| For the most part, this type of folk art auctions | | | | modern fraktur. A fraktur is a special kind of |
| exclude works by expert artists. | | | | Pennsylvania German folk art. The fraktur I found was |
| It has been my experience that folk art auctions have | | | | a watercolor of a matrimony record. It was very |
| something for just about anyone in different walks of | | | | colorful and looked like it had held a very special |
| life. Recently, I found a folk art painting of a cat in a | | | | importance to its first owners. |
| peach tree that was done by the artist Tascha, who | | | | In the same auction, I found a firewood box from |
| also involved in creating unique ceramic tile art too. | | | | Maine that really appealed to me. It was pretty tiny, but |
| Many years' back, my mother bought a blanket chest | | | | was painted chrome yellow and was trimmed in forest |
| for me of which I have it listed in a folk art auction. The | | | | green. The paint was crazed and worn and it was |
| chest was made about two hundred years ago and is | | | | made in the late nineteenth century. There were no |
| very beautiful and elegant. It was so well maintained | | | | visible nails and the hardware was reported as looking |
| that the unique painted decorations on the chest are | | | | original. |
| still intact. | | | | There was also another folk art that I missed out on |
| In the same auction, a very special "carnival | | | | that day, was way out of my price range. It was for |
| knock-down dummy" in the shape of a large cat, | | | | an Andrew Clemens sand bottle. The sand bottle was |
| caught my eyes. It was made around in 1930 and is | | | | date 1887 and was covered in patriotic decorations. It |
| twice the size of an alike item displayed. I did some | | | | was an apothecary design bottle with a stopper and it |
| research on this item on a non-auction site and found | | | | contained at least ten dissimilar colors of sand. The |
| that it is worth a lot. It was definitely the bargain of the | | | | bottle ended up selling for eighty five hundred dollars. |
| day! | | | | I'm convinced that this piece will end up as one of the |
| There are a lot of different folk art auctions. My heart | | | | superb collection for its owner. |
| is still swayed towards Americana folk art auctions. I | | | | Another item that I found quite amusing in folk art |
| recently fell in love with a painting that I found in an | | | | auction is for three wooden carvings. The name of the |
| auction where Elvis was on a Harley in front of a huge | | | | piece was entitled Three Articulating Folk Art |
| American flag. It was spectacular sight! The stretched | | | | Whimseys and they were all made by the same artist. |
| canvas was painted with acrylics. | | | | The carvings were accented with sheet metal |
| Halloween themed folk art auction is also one of my | | | | neckties. The first carving was of a cobbler, a |
| other favourite. This particular one that I have attended, | | | | blacksmith and a gentleman with a donkey. The |
| was presented by Sister Raya New Orleans Folk Art. | | | | second carving was a diminutive soldier and the third |
| There is one painting, titled, Little Spooky The Cat | | | | was a cobbler smoking a pipe. I think that this piece of |
| Awaiting The Great Pumpkin, was painted in classic | | | | Americana was purchased at a low price of three |
| vintage technique and used gold maple, red sapphire, | | | | thousand dollars but I speculate, it was worth much |
| blue pearl, white, pumpkin orange, sable brown, amber | | | | more. |