The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

What drew this community of artists, journalists ... In the ensuing decades of [the twentieth] century and for several different generations of the American Left, Greenwich Village has had ...

2006.73 Courtesy the Mint Museum The Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte feels like the perfect location for a retrospective honoring early 20th-century artists from the American South—the ...

R.B. Kitaj was an American artist known for his expressive ... and Judeo-Christian mysticism embedded in the early 20th-century literature of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin into his art practice.

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...