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American Folk Art Museum
About
This grouping features highlights from the American Folk Art Museum’s collection in a wide variety of mediums.
Drawn from the American Folk Art Museum, this grouping presents a survey of highlights from the museum’s collection. Together these artworks can act as an introduction to museum visitors that have never experienced folk art, or as rotations for museums with extensive folk art holdings. This grouping presents a wide array of mediums and themes including Clementine Hunter and Charles C. Hofmann’s landscape paintings that vibrantly capture the essence of place. Other themes explored in this grouping include the representation and popularity of animal forms in folk art from decoy ducks to the fantastical imagery of a sea serpent weathervane.
Lender
American Folk Art Museum | AFAM
Space Requirements
Artworks can be hung together or dispersed throughout the galleries.
Loan Duration
2 years
Facility Requirements
Temp: 65-75°F
RH: 40-60%
Security: 24 hr. CCTV and roaming guards
Support
Art Bridges covers all costs to prepare and ship the artworks to the borrowing museums. The foundation encourages borrowing museums to apply for accompanying Learning & Engagement funding to support the activation and interpretation of Partner Loan Networks artworks. Learning & Engagement funding supports multidisciplinary programming, interpretive materials, and community outreach.
Availability
1. Highlights from the Collection
2. Highlights from the Collection
3. Clementine Hunter Highlights
4. Purvis Young Highlights
5. Art from Bessemer, Alabama
6. Self-Taught Artists from the South
Artwork Gallery
Lothrop T. Holmes
Goldeneye Drake
Thornton Dial Sr.
Untitled (Dog)
Thornton Dial Sr.
Untitled (Chair)
Ronald Lockett
Untitled
Thornton Dial Sr.
Tiger Cats Coming and Going
Jimmy Lee Sudduth
Untitled (self-portrait)
Purvis Young
Untitled
David Butler
Statue of Liberty
Sam Doyle
Dr. Buz
Unknown
Sea Serpent Weathervane
Charles I.D. Looff
Camel
Charles C. Hofmann
Wernersville, Taken from the North-Side
Clementine Hunter
Plantation Life
Purvis Young
Untitled (Slave, Shackled Hands)
Purvis Young
Assemblage of Crowd Scenes
Clementine Hunter
Saturday Night
Clemintine Hunter
Black Matriarch
Clementine Hunter
Black Christ on Cross
George G. Hartwell
Child Holding Doll and Shoe
Unknown
Bird Tree
E. Joy Morris Carousel Co. / Philadelphia Toboggan Company
Outside Row Jumper Zebra
Purvis Young
People Celebrating
Purvis Young
A Man’s Tears
Purvis Young
Untitled (Pregnant Figure)
Purvis Young
Untitled (Bars, Insects, Figures)
Clementine Hunter
Washing Day
Clementine Hunter
Baby Jesus and Three Wise Men
Clementine Hunter
Untitled (Abstract with Photograph of the Artist)
Clementine Hunter
Picking and Hauling Cotton
Unknown
Pocket Watch Trade Sign
Unknown
Hudsonian Curlew Weathervane
Purvis Young
Untitled (Eyes, Horses, Figures)
Clementine Hunter
Cotton Mill
Wilhelm Schimmel
Eagle with Outspread Wings
Unknown
Loon, early 20th Century
Lothrop T. Holmes
Goldeneye Drake
Thornton Dial Sr.
Untitled (Dog)
Thornton Dial Sr.
Untitled (Chair)
Ronald Lockett
Untitled
Thornton Dial Sr.
Tiger Cats Coming and Going
Jimmy Lee Sudduth
Untitled (self-portrait)
Purvis Young
Untitled
David Butler
Statue of Liberty
Sam Doyle
Dr. Buz
Unknown
Sea Serpent Weathervane
Charles I.D. Looff
Camel
Charles C. Hofmann
Wernersville, Taken from the North-Side
Clementine Hunter
Plantation Life
Purvis Young
Untitled (Slave, Shackled Hands)
Purvis Young
Assemblage of Crowd Scenes
Clementine Hunter
Saturday Night
Clemintine Hunter
Black Matriarch
Clementine Hunter
Black Christ on Cross
Downloads
Checklist - 1. Highlights from Collection (PDF)
Checklist - 2. Highlights from the Collection (PDF)
Checklist - 3. Clementine Hunter (PDF)
Checklist - 4. Purvis Young Highlights (PDF)
Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887 - 1988), Picking and Hauling Cotton, late 20th Century, Oil on canvas board, 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (59.7 x 74.9 cm), American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Joan Einbender, 2016.28.1, Photo by Adam Reich, CL.2022.4.21
Part of the Ulrich Museum of Art Partner Loan Network Grouping:
Mark Bradford (born 1961), C'mon Shorty, 2022, Permanent wave end papers, paper, acrylic paint on canvas, Image: 72 H x 84 W in (182.9 H x 213.4 W cm). Ulrich Museum of Art, Museum Purchase.
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