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American Primitive Watercolors 16 Framable #1724294

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American Primitive Watercolors 16 Framable #1724294
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*EXCERPTED INFO: "Sixteen paintings were selected from more than a thousand in eleven great collections to feature a masterpiece group, consistent in quality, varied in subject, style and provenance. Almost every aspect of American life was recorded by the untutored artists of the new republic in small, fragile documents painted in watercolor. The events and men who made the nation?s history, the faces of the people and scenes from their daily life, the landscape, the religious fervor: all were inspiration to folk painters whose talents and styles were as diverse as their subjects. The medium of watercolor was a particularly expressive one more closely allied to drawing than to oil on canvas. In these examples its intimacy and immediacy are apparent. A sensitive awareness of design and color is visible in the untrained painters? works, the majority of them based on crisp, incisive draftsmanship. Most often the provincial artists painting for the American middle class looked to drawing books for instruction and to prints for inspiration. From this small guidance in their craft or avocation they produced workmanlike pictures in which the medium was employed to best advantage..Each watercolor is a colorful testimonial to the reigning philosophy of the pioneers. ?I am as good as you are? was the guiding American spirit that made the creation and possession of paintings as commonplace to the middle class as it was to the aristocracy. If the rich could afford portraits and decorations ...
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#: American_Primitive_Watercolors_Portfolio_Folk_Art_Prints_Book</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:MINT-IN-BOX</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:ca 1950s-1960s</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>




<tr><td>Weight:5</td></tr>
<tr><td>Title:American Primitive Watercolors 16 Framable</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Glendale, Arizona</td></tr>
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