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 ...

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 ...

A Folk-Art Painting With Fine-Art Qualities John James Trumbull Arnold’s ‘Portrait of Mary Mattingly’ reveals the station of its young sitter’s family though the work’s details.

Folk art draws deeply on pre-industrial relationships with animals, portrayed as anthropomorphic spirits or domesticated stock. The painted signs at the Tate display proud pigeons and fat pigs, ...