MAN • BEAST • SPIRIT • WOMAN
Steven S. Powers presents, MAN • BEAST • SPIRIT • WOMAN. A collection of exceptional Folk Art & Americana assembled for exhibition and sale at Antiques In Manchester: The Collector's Fair. August 10-11, 2016. Sullivan Arena, St Anselm College, 100 St Anselm Dr. Manchester, NH 03102. Featuring works from The Marvill Collection and Americana from an important Midwestern Collection. MAN • BEAST • SPIRIT • WOMAN, explores examples of folk art that excompass these loose parameters. Some are straightforward, for example, The woman "Laundress" covers "Woman," (though in this context of broad labeling, it comes off as a one dimentional, misogynistic labeling). Other examples overlap, the cover image of the African-American limberjack, considers "Man," but is so powerful that it is imbued with, "Spirit" as well. The Woodlands, Ojibwa Mide'wiwin Figures covers, "Man, Woman and Spirit." The brownstone sculpture, "Men of the Pale Forest," explores "Man," but has elements of "Spirit and Beast." While the carved Gizzly Bear obviously represents, "Beast," its sensitive carving and remarkable surface gives her a "Spirit" as well.
Steven S. Powers presents, MAN • BEAST • SPIRIT • WOMAN. A collection of exceptional Folk Art & Americana assembled for exhibition and sale at Antiques In Manchester: The Collector's Fair. August 10-11, 2016. Sullivan Arena, St Anselm College, 100 St Anselm Dr. Manchester, NH 03102. Featuring works from The Marvill Collection and Americana from an important Midwestern Collection.
MAN • BEAST • SPIRIT • WOMAN, explores examples of folk art that excompass these loose parameters. Some are straightforward, for example, The woman "Laundress" covers "Woman," (though in this context of broad labeling, it comes off as a one dimentional, misogynistic labeling). Other examples overlap, the cover image of the African-American limberjack, considers "Man," but is so powerful that it is imbued with, "Spirit" as well. The Woodlands, Ojibwa Mide'wiwin Figures covers, "Man, Woman and Spirit." The brownstone sculpture, "Men of the Pale Forest," explores "Man," but has elements of "Spirit and Beast." While the carved Gizzly Bear obviously represents, "Beast," its sensitive carving and remarkable surface gives her a "Spirit" as well.
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the back of the cart<br />
contains a wild, spotted<br />
beast. Atop the<br />
cart sits a hurdygurdy<br />
monkey and a<br />
colorful slithering<br />
snake. A man sits at<br />
the reigns and ushers<br />
two giraffes who pull<br />
the wagon.<br />
The collection is<br />
offered as a group<br />
and will be displayed<br />
as such on a wall<br />
mounted zig-zagged<br />
ramp with all of the<br />
animals marching up<br />
to the circus cart.<br />
Mongolian Sheep(?)<br />
Marshalltown, Iowa<br />
Carved wood, polychrome,<br />
sawdust. glue<br />
Circa: 1930<br />
Size: 3 7/8" (l) x 3" (w)<br />
Seahorse<br />
Marshalltown, Iowa<br />
Carved wood, polychrome, cactus thorns<br />
Circa: 1930<br />
Size: 2 3/4" (l) x 6" (h)
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