These hobo nickels are a fine representation of American folk art and are a unique (and affordable) coin to collect. As the Great Depression ravaged American society, migrant workers took to the ...
The film opens with Dylan arriving in New York in 1961, backlog of masterpieces in tow, and it ends with his explosive performance at the Newport Folk Festival ... much into his art as into ...
In the late 1700s, when young boys were taught the art of navigation, it was common that they would have used a workbook to write out their examples, trigonometry equations and explore navigational ...
Milledgeville, Georgia, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One of the great American writers, Flannery O’Connor is a world-renowned icon of southern gothic fiction — but she was also a visual artist, ...
A double-sided portrait by the folk portraitist Ammi Phillips (around 1815) Courtesy of Christie’s Coincidentally, Christie's will offer in the coming weeks another work that was consigned via ...
Carter employed a folk-art style as a late-in-life amateur painter and claimed “no special talent ... Near the executive offices are a self-portrait and a painting of Rosalynn in their early ...
LOS ANGELES — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose ... he said placed high value on art and scholarship.