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 and the art world, as viewers and ...

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 ...

In an 1841 watercolor-and-ink drawing, John James Trumbull Arnold, an itinerant artist who roamed Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania in pursuit of commissions, portrayed himself with a quill in ...

Folk artist Li Haiming makes an enamel drawing of the Four Great Beauties, four ancient Chinese women renowned for their beauty, in Peking Opera costumes in his studio in Lanzhou city, capital of ...

The “God in a bottle” art form is a variation on the ship-in-a-bottle theme, except with religious rather than maritime fittings. Photograph: Adam’s Auctioneers Frank McNally ...