Winterthur, coming off a landmark year thanks to last year’s Downton Abbey costume exhibit, hopes that the crowds who discovered the museum last year will return to see their new exhibit: &#8… ...

Renowned folk artist Johnny Claypoole, a master painter of Pennsylvania German hex signs, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, a family spokesman confirmed.

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 ...

To understand the American folk art of our 17th and 18th century PA German immigrants to the new world, one must realize how much a religious background men to these Pilgrims were the product of ...

Fraktur as a folk art had its roots in German Europe, or as it then was known, the Holy Roman Empire. Most of it was made up of hodge podges of small and large bishoprics, baronies and free cities.

Elie Nadelman was an American-Polish artist whose work married the genres of classical sculpture and folk art. View Elie Nadelman’s 497 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

A Lehigh Valley woman got more than a winning bid on a rare piece of Pennsylvania German artwork. She uncovered an 18th-century piece of her family history.