Contemporary American Folk Artists

Once regarded as little more than a curiosity, folk art is today sought after and highly valued by collectors and museums. Twenty-two contemporary American folk artists are represented in this book, remarkable people whose work expresses the strength, vitality, and individuality that have been a tradition with American folk artists for centuries.<br />Folk painters like Sister Gertrude Morgan, whose painting is just another way of preaching; folk carvers like Jim Colclough, who makes irreverent statues for his relatives, including Harry Truman and the Duchess of Windsor; and total environmentalists like Simon Rodia, whose spectacular Watts Towers are a monument to his artistic fervor – all speak eloquently for themselves, in interviews and through the more than 100 photographs of their works.<br />Here is ample support for the notion that folk art is alive and well in America today.