Collection agreement: American Folk Art Museum

April 14, 2010

ARTstor is collaborating with the American Folk Art Museum to share approximately 1,500 images of traditional folk art and works by contemporary self-taught artists (sometimes referred to as "outsider art") from the museum's permanent collection in the Digital Library. The museum's holdings comprise more than 5,000 works created by American and international artists from the 18th century to the present. ARTstor is presenting a selection of objects in a variety of media, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, trade figures, signs, weathervanes, furniture, ceramics, needleworks, rugs, quilts, and coverlets. Notable early American folk artists such as John Blunt, Erastus Salisbury Field, Edward Hicks, Jacob Maentel, Ammi Phillips, and William Matthew Prior are included in the selection. Also represented are 20th- and 21st-century self-taught artists from around the world, including Nek Chand, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, Martín Ramírez, Bill Traylor, and Adolf Wölfli.

Established in 1961, the American Folk Art Museum is the premier institution devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of traditional folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.


For more detailed information about this collection, visit the American Folk Art Museum collection page.


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