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The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street.It is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.
After collecting a formative group of American folk art pieces under the advisement of consultants and art dealers, art patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller anonymously loaned part of her folk art collection to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900 which ran from November 30, 1932, through January 14, 1933 in New York.
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.
The Folk Art Society of America is a 501(c)(3) organization, founded in 1987 "to advocate the discovery, study, documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art, folk artists and folk art environments, with an emphasis on the contemporary".
Justin McCarthy (May 13, 1891–July 14, 1977) was a self-taught American artist. His work is in many important collections, including those of the American Folk Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Petullo Collection, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Webb was an avid collector of American folk art and founded the museum in 1947. She took the step of relocating historic buildings from New England and New York to Shelburne in which to display the museum's holdings. The museum has lost money and was said to have had a deficit of more than $300,000 (~$559,503 in 2023) in 1994. [1]
Folk art museums in the United States — focused on American folk art and/or folk art of other traditions/cultures. Subcategories This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total.
American Thoroughbred horse racing museum Kentucky Folk Art Center: Morehead: Rowan: Kentucky's Appalachians: Art: Part of Morehead State University, self-taught art, exhibits of folk art, fine art, textiles, photography, and historical content Kentucky Gateway Museum Center: Maysville: Mason: Northern Kentucky: Multiple
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