Prolific Swiss itinerant artist Ferdinand Brader drew hundreds of area farms in the late 1800s. Seventeen of his pieces will be auctioned on Oct. 25.

The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

“Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection” by Dennis A. Moyer, Pennsylvania German Society, $65, 320 pp. Although Pennsylvania German fraktur is a folk art with ...

Folk artist Ren Gengshun makes an engraving with electric soldering iron in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, Dec 9,2014. Ren has been practicing pyrography for 30 years with heated iron on ...

Art can inspire, inform, enlighten, provoke and comfort. And, sometimes, it can just be fun. Put an ongoing exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center solidly in that last category. Its title ...

(RFE/RL) -- Russian folk art has never been much collected in Western Europe. But now, there are signs it is drawing greater interest, including in the Western antique market. One measure is an ...

The Manheim Historical Society will host its annual Christmas Folk Art Show featuring works by local and regional artists on Friday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 ...

Art lovers in the city are in for a treat as Gallery Sumukha is all set to host their latest exhibition. Titled, The Drawing Show - Part 1, this will be a group show of drawing by artists like A ...

Years ago Jim Murphy admired an antique bird tree carving by the 1800s Pennsylvania German folk artist Wilhelm Schimmel. There was just one catch. The whimsical carving was valued at $88,000. “I ...

Suzi Altman is fighting to keep a promise to an old friend. Her life changed 20 years ago when she moved to Brandon, Mississippi, and learned about an iconic country grocery store, transformed to look ...