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The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street. It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.
After collecting a formative group of American folk art pieces under the advisement of consultants and art dealers, art patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller anonymously loaned part of her folk art collection to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900 which ran from November 30, 1932, through January 14, 1933 in New York.
William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was the first African-American folk art sculptor to be given a one-person show exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1937). Biography [ edit ]
The Encyclopedic Palace of the World (Il Palazzo Enciclopedico del Mondo) is a mixed media, sculptural model that was created by self-taught Italian-American artist Marino Auriti in the 1950s. Now in the permanent collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, the work came to international attention in 2013 when its name was ...
Gallery of early-20th-century German and Austrian art and design Whitney Museum of American Art: Meatpacking District: Manhattan: Art: 20th-century American art Brant Foundation: East Village: Manhattan: Art: modern and contemporary art Hill Art Foundation: Chelsea: Manhattan: Art: modern and contemporary art; Renaissance sculpture
Hollander received her B.A. from Barnard College, and her MA in American Folk Art Studies from New York University. [4]Hollander began working at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in 1985 as graduate student and over her tenure at the AFAM, she organized nearly fifty original exhibitions for the museum, including Harry Lieberman: A Journey of Remembrance (1991), The Seduction of Light: Ammi ...
In January 2007, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City opened "Martín Ramírez," the largest retrospective of the artist's work in the United States in more than 20 years. The exhibition featured about 100 of the 300 drawings and collages that had then been known to exist.
In 1980 she and Thomas N. Armstrong III co-edited another exhibition catalogue for the museum. Other exhibits followed in 1986 and 1990. [2] As a historian, Lipman came to specialize in the fields of American painted furniture and folk carving. She was a trustee of the American Folk Art Museum from 1965 to 1978, later becoming a trustee emerita ...