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  2. Fish carving - Wikipedia

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    Fish sculpture, fish decoys, fish carvings and fish trophies are the names given to a style of painted wood carving practiced by various artisans. The works are kept as decorations and collectible as folk art. British fish carvers include John B. Russell (Scottish), John and Dhuie Tully, P.B. Malloch and the Hardy Brothers.

  3. Oscar W. Peterson - Wikipedia

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    “Beneath the Ice: The Art of the Fish Decoy,“ Museum of American Folk Art 2/15/1990- 4/17/1990; Oscar Peterson was extremely prolific, creating more than 15,000 works of art. (including fish decoys, duck decoys, plaques, and other decorative items).

  4. Handcrafts and folk art in Michoacán - Wikipedia

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    Michoacán handcrafts and folk art is a Mexican regional tradition centered in the state of Michoacán, in central/western Mexico. Its origins traced back to the Purépecha Empire, and later to the efforts to organize and promote trades and crafts by Vasco de Quiroga in what is now the north and northeast of the state. The state has a wide ...

  5. Folk art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Folk art - Wikipedia

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    Many folk art traditions like quilting, ornamental picture framing, and decoy carving continue to be practiced, and new forms continue to emerge. Contemporary outsider artists are often self-taught, and their work is usually developed in isolation or in small communities across the country.

  7. Minnie Adkins - Wikipedia

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    Minnie Adkins is a Kentucky folk artist known for her painted wood carvings of animals – roosters, red foxes, bears, possums, and horses. She was born, 1934, in Isonville, a small town in rural Eastern Kentucky.

  8. Alebrije - Wikipedia

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    Jimenez began carving wooden figures since he was a boy tending animals in the 1920s. [35] By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jimenez's work was being sold in the city of Oaxaca, which led them to being shown to folk art collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller. By the late 1960s, he was giving exhibitions in museums in Mexico City and the United ...

  9. Stephen Huneck - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Huneck (pronounced: / ˈ s t iː v ə n ˈ h juː n ɛ k /; October 8, 1948 – January 7, 2010) was an American wood carver and folk artist.He also authored a series of children's books featuring Sally, the first of which, Sally Goes to the Beach, was a New York Times best seller.

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