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Shop owner heeds siren call of Mexican folk art, realizing a dream
Behind the store itself is owner Dina Leor. Dina calls herself an Argentine American, with a Mexican heart. A heart that let her down an unexpected path. As a 9-year-old girl, she found herself in ...
This regal art museum in a tiny Washington town is about to celebrate its 85th anniversary
Hill built the building that would become the Maryhill Museum of Art, and the nearby Stonehenge Memorial in the 1910s. The ...
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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
“At one time, quilting was used to preserve and express African American traditions, but it was also one of the few art forms that marginalized folk could ... mother in the early 1900s.
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Hope Runs High at Frieze L.A. as Art Buys Drive Fire Relief
These included a canvas by British figurative painter Antonia Showering for £60,000 ($63,000), a painting by American artist ... sculptures have an almost folk-art quality. They draw on their ...
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Antique Canadian furniture pieces and works by noted Canadian folk artists highlight Miller & Miller's Feb. 8-9 auctions
Top lots included a late 18th/early 19th century Quebec arbalète commode and original folk art paintings by Maud Lewis ... (the Canadian version of the American "Wooten" desk), an exceptional ...
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Because You Are Polite
A little book by Eric Sloane entitled Do’s and Don’ts of Yesterday: A Treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom, was given to me by a friend with the same first name as the author. It is a collection of ...