American Anthem: Masterworks From The American Folk Art Museum; Author: American Folk Art Museum; Joint Author: Anderson, Brooke Davis; Hardback; Book

Author: American Folk Art Museum; Joint Author: Anderson, Brooke Davis
Hardback; Book; 293 Colour Photographs
312 pages
Published: May 2002
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810967405

A song of praise to the nation, American Anthem celebrates the symbols of liberty, ingenuity, and refuge indelibly imbedded in American folk art from colonial days through the present. Thisglorious full-color volume highlights treasures from the important collection of the American Folk Art Museum -- works that will be on display from June through December 2002 as the second major exhibition at the museum's new building in New York City.From Log Cabin quilts and painted wood furniture to watercolors and oil paintings; from Hosea Hayden's idiosyncratic folding chairs to the drawings of the octogenarian street artist and former slave Bill Traylor; from Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, the masterpiece of 19th-century ancestral portrait artist Ammi Phillips, to works by the noAmerican Anthem celebrates the symbols of liberty, ingenuity and refuge indelibly imbedded in American folk art from colonial days through to the beginning of the 21st century. Accompanies an exibition of works from the American Folk Art Museum, at its new location in New York.