Popular Art in the United StatesContains descriptions and illustrations of 32 items selected from the Index of American Design - a cross-section of American decorative and popular arts from before 1700 to around 1900. |
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American Art American decorative American Design appliqué quilts artist Band Wagon Bandbox Bartholomew Gosnold Bennington birds block-printed blue Boston CAHILL carved carvers cast iron Chalkware Rooster Cigar Store Figure Cigar Store Indian Coffee-pot Colorado colour Connecticut Project coverlets crafts driftwood pine eagle early America early nineteenth century eighteenth century England Ephrata Cloister European figureheads Folk Art furniture gesso Historical Society Hitching Post HOLGER ILLUSTRATIONS Index of American inscription Jenny Lind KING PENGUIN Massachusetts Project Metropolitan Museum Mexico Michigan Project Mid nineteenth century motifs Mourning Embroidery Muse Museum of Art native original ornate Patchwork Quilt pattern Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvania German Pennsylvania German Owl Pennsylvania Project Philadelphia Pitcher popular arts puppet Rain-in-the-Face Retablo Revolution santeros Santiago de Compostela Scroll sculpture Second half seems Shaker Furniture Shakers created ships slip Spanish-American Art style technique tion to-day Toleware tradition Trivet tulips United Wall Painting ware Wistar wood wool woven York City Project