FOLK ART Outsider primitive Animal Sculpture Carved Cat wood large

  

FOLK ART SCULPTURE Carved CAT outsider primitive artist unsigned. This sculpture like many primitive carvings is made from trees or found wood.

It is from my collection and artist unknown. His sculpture is a great one. 12 width between front feet.

12" height floor to shoulder and total height about 16". The Cat Animal has a unique primitive style and technique. It i s rough and with an out-of-square appearance to. On the fringe of clumsiness, enigmatic and. The cat is in a most primitive style.

Since the Colonial era, wood has been a key medium for American artisans creating folk-art objects in their workshops and homes. Wood has been a favorite of folk artists who, lacking training and supplies, often turned to this basic material because it was accessible. I plan to list more Folk Art in the future.

These works include log houses, water mills, squirrels, and other mages. Vintage paintings with his mud and spinach juice renderings are hard to come by. There also are more early Tollivers and a large number of strong Sybil Gibsons etheral dusty, muted pastel paintings on grocery bags. Some great abstract works by Willie White, and Roy Ferdinand urban ghetto memory paintings.

A few pieces by Mary T Smith, and a number of Calvin Livingston's African hammered tin cutouts. Many of his paintings hang prominently in New Orleans House of Blues.. New Orelanian Welmon Sharlhorne who is known for his brilliant detailed line drawings done during his long stint at Angola Prison. Also some great retablos and dramatic yarn shields as well as beaded masks made by the indigenous Huichol Indians of Mexicos remote Sierra Madre mountains. Other self-taught artists such as MOSE TOLLIVER.

The strength his work is his lack of self-consciousness as to what his art is or should be. It was his sheer impulse to create, and therein lies its power. Her clapboard and tin two-room shack was nestled in the middle of a cow pasture fenced in by barbed wire.

Her porch was filled with strange sculptures. There were human, animal, and vessel forms of cracking clay embedded with mule and cow bones, teeth, fossil shells, glass, Spanish moss, and coffee grounds, identified by Juanita as Ram Men, Goat Men, and Jungle Women. The item "FOLK ART Outsider primitive Animal Sculpture Carved Cat wood large" is in sale since Saturday, July 11, 2020. This item is in the category "Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art". The seller is "deepsouthc" and is located in Montgomery, Alabama.

This item can be shipped worldwide.

1. Region of Origin: US-Southeast
2. Artist: Unknown
3. Style: Outsider
4. Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
5. Material: Wood
6. Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
7. Date of Creation: 1970-1989
8. Type: sculpture
9. Original/Reproduction: Original
10. Signed?

    : Unsigned

11. Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
12. Color: Brown
13. Subject: Animals
14. Original/ Reproduction: original
15. Size Type/ Largest Dimension: MEDIUM
16. OUTSIDER ART: FOLK ART
17. AFRICAN AMERICAN: SELF TAUGHT
18. wood folk art: OUTSIDER
19. Originality: Original