The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are ...

October 23, 2024 Many gameboards on view in the exhibition Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture offer a glimpse into the social and economic changes of the late nineteenth and early ...

In a not-so-distant past, barn stars and hex signs were iconic symbols of rural life in central Pennsylvania. Today, only a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After six years in storage, four local late 19th century farmhouse murals depicting rural scenes ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- What does "home" mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. "Home isn't always a ...

John Brewster Jr., portraits of Benjamin Titcomb and Anne Pearson Titcomb (1798), oil on canvas in the original molded and beaded giltwood frames, 30x25 in. (each) (image courtesy Skinner, Inc. and ...

Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960), the younger daughter of Louisine and Henry O. Havemeyer, scion of a family of American sugar barons dating to the early 19th Century, grew up in Manhattan in a ...

Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art is now at the Jewish Museum. If there’s a show to see in New York, it’s this one. It’s beautifully done, as are all the Jewish Museum’s shows, with great art ...

You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name Madalena Santos Reinbolt (1919–1976). Her current exhibition at New York’s American Folk Art Museum is the self-taught Afro-Brazilian artist’s first museum ...