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EARLY 20C FOLK ART SHEEP PAINTING/ INSIDE BARN Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1910   item# 960607 (stock# PastoralPain)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3000  This early twentieth century pastoral painting of a herd of sheep huddled inside a barn is one of the best folk art paintings we have seen in a long time. How many sheep paintings have you seen where the animals are indoors as opposed to in the barnyard or in a landscape? Dimensions are 22 x 36 inches, sight size, and 25 x 29 inches in its old gilt frame. This painting has tremendous charm and realism. FOLK ART CARVINGS/LOVE TRIANGLE/JFK,MM & JACKIE Catalogue: Fine Art: Sculpture: Wood: Pre 2000   item# 915649 (stock# MenageATrois)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $2450  This superb folk art grouping depicts the love triangle of John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States, duly noted by the artist), his wife Jacqueline and movie star Marilyn Monroe. Wimp Gibson was a great wood carver and the son-in-law of the Appalachian wood carver Troy Webb who was married to Webb's daughter Geneva. The Gibsons and the Webbs lived in rural Claiborne County, Tennessee near the Kentucky line. Gibson is deceased. All three pieces are fashioned from buckeye and are s ...click for details OUTSIDER ART/CHILDREN SLEEPING/HELEN LAFRANCE Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 911480 (stock# HLChildrenSl)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3000  Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. This very charming oil on canvas depiction of children sleeping, more than one in a bed as was the norm, measures 20 x 30 inches, sight size, and 21 x 31 inches framed. LaFrance's specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always following ...click for details OUTSIDER ART/SOUTHERN BIBLE STUDY/HELEN LAFRANCE Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 911475 (stock# HLBibleStudy)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $2500  Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. This charming oil on canvas depiction of a Bible study measures 18 x 24 inches, sight size, and 19-1/4 x 25-1/4 inches framed. LaFrance's specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always following her mother's wisdom to "paint wh ...click for details SOUTHERN FOLK ART/CHURCH CEMETARY/HELEN LAFRANCE Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 911470 (stock# HLCemetary)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3000  Helen LaFrance painted this evocative oil on canvas depiction of a church with people at the adjacent cemetary. Dimensions are 22 x 38 inches, sight size, and 23 x 29 inches framed. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always followi ...click for details SOUTHERN FOLK ART MEMORY PAINTING/FAMILY QUILTING Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 911466 (stock# HLQuilting)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $2500  Helen LaFrance painted this oil on canvas depiction of a family quilting together at the dining room table. Dimensions are 18 x 24 inches, sight size, and 19-1/4 x 25-1/4 inches framed. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always fol ...click for details FOLK ART MEMORY PAINTING O/C BY HELEN LAFRANCE/CHURCH Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 910563 (stock# HLChurchChoi)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3800  This extremely well done oil on canvas folk art memory painting by Helen LaFrance (born 1919 in Kentucky) depicts a church choir. LaFrance is self-taught and has been painting all her life. Her works are represented in many important folk art collections and museums around the country. She is featured in a chapter in Kathy Moses' reference book "Outsider Art of the South", published by Schiffer. This one measures 18 x 36 inches, sight size, and 21.5 x 39 inches framed. RARE VISIONARY HELEN LAFRANCE FOLK/OUTSIDER ART O/C Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 848485 (stock# Leopard)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $7500  This rare visionary painting by well known folk/outsider artist Helen LaFrance (born Kentucky 1919) depicts the leopard with the lion's head and bear claws from the Book of Daniel. Painted in 1993, the signed oil on canvas is one of a handful of visionary paintings illustrating Bible verses by LaFrance. LHer visionary paintings are a sharp departure from her memory paintings and have never come up again. Dimensions are measures 30 x 40 inches, sight size. It comes in a contemporary blond wo ...click for details HELEN LAFRANCE (B.1919 KY) BLACK FOLK ART/DOWNTOWN Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 848477 (stock# HLRestaurant)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3000  This evocative memory painting by folk/outsider artist Helen LaFrance (born Kentucky 1919) is entitled "Downtown Restaurant". The signed painting is oil on canvas and the measures 22 x 28 inches, sight size. It comes in a contemporary blond wood frame. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usu ...click for details HELEN LAFRANCE(b.1919 KY)FOLK/OUTSIDER ART/COON HUNT Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 848441 (stock# CoonHunt(bk))  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $3500  This marvelous memory painting by folk/outsider artist Helen LaFrance (born Kentucky 1919)is entitled "Coon Hunt" and is pictured in "Outsider Art of the South" by Kathy Moses (Schiffer Publishing Ltd. The signed painting is oil on canvas and the dimensions are 30 x 30 inches. It comes in a contemporary blond wood frame. Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of th ...click for details LATE 19th CENTURY AMERICAN OIL FOLK GENRE PAINTING 4' Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: Pre 1900   item# 844891 (stock# GenrePtg)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $1900  This large and busy late 19th Century American folk art genre painting is oil on cotton screen laid down on muslin, on a lattice wood frame. Against the backdrop of a fantasy image of a Philadelphia streetscape is the depiction of three unemployed men receiving money from a man in a coat and top hat, a young man caught in the act of pickpocketing, in front of a builder's shop, a federal building and a prison, possibly Fairmount Prison in Philadelphia. Dimensions are 48 x 48.5 inches. This is ...click for details EARLY 20TH CENTURY CIRCUS OR CARNIVAL MALLET / FOLK ART Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Instruments and Implements: Pre 1930   item# 817563 (stock# CarnivalMall)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $475  Early-to-mid twentieth century carnival mallets or mauls like this wooden one were a familiar sight on circus and carnival midways all across America. This one weighs a hefty 16 pounds and measures 36-3/4 inches overall length including handle, with the mallet measuring 9-1/2 inches long by 7-1/8 inches in diameter. A red paint band adorns the handle. This carnival mallet is a real piece of Americana. It is great American folk art. TIM LEWIS/FOLK ART STONECARVER/MUSEUM SHOW CATALOG 2008 Catalogue: Fine Art: Sculpture: Stone: Contemporary   item# 801190 (stock# TLCatalog)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $20 + SHI  This is a great opportunity to own the catalogue for the traveling museum show "Time Made Real: The (Stone) Carvings of Tim Lewis", especially if you are unable to get to one of the exhibition venues, which run through December 2009. Loaded with images and showcasing the 60 powerful works of art in the premier exhibition at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN, the catalogue is peppered with great photographs of Tim at work and with his family. It is also a scholarly work that ...click for details SIGNED VINTAGE HAITIAN SPIRIT (VOODOO) FLAG Catalogue: Fine Art: Mixed Media: Pre 2000   item# 548823 (stock# HaitianStJ)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $350  This wonderful signed vintage Haitian spirit flag depicts Ogou, the warrior spirit of justice who appears in the guise of the Catholic Saint James. Dimensions are 30 inches by 31 inches. Haitian spirits or loa are intermediaries between humans and the realm of the spirit. They work magic for people, “mount” or possess their worshippers like horses and “ride” them into the night at special ceremonies. The "veve", or delicate ritual drawings that evoke and invoke the spirits, are drawn i ...click for details O/C FOLK ART CHURCH PICNIC/HELEN LAFRANCE,b.1919 KY Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000   item# 476426 (stock# CP1.2x3)  click for details Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver (615) 477-6221 $6500  Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 Western Kentucky. Her specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always following her mother's wisdom to "paint what you know." Not limited to two-dimensional media, she used to carve wooden animal sculptures and dolls and made wonderful quilts. LaFr ...click for details pages:  1