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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.
Folk art in the United States refers to the many regional types of tangible folk art created by people in the United States of America.Generally developing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries in a uniquely American way, folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people.
American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, by Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson, American Folk Art Museum in association with Henry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (2001) Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists, by Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr. and Julia Weissman, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York (1974) 170.
The Ulster American Folk Park is an open-air museum just outside Omagh, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.With more than 30 exhibit buildings to explore, the museum tells the story of three centuries of Irish emigration.
Folk art museums in the United States — focused on American folk art and/or folk art of other traditions/cultures. Subcategories This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total.
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Fife Folk Museum exhibit. A local museum in Suomussalmi. A folk museum [1] is a museum that deals with folk culture and heritage. Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the people's everyday lives. [2] Examples of such objects include clothes and tools.