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 Laundress<br />
Carved wood, polychrome, aluminum foil<br />
Circa: 1920<br />
Size: 14" (l) x 8 5/8" (h)<br />
Provenance: Hammer & Hammer; Marna<br />
Anderson; Marvill Collection<br />
Illustrated and discussed in American Primitive,<br />
page 67, fig. 85.<br />
Carved from hardwood, she stands well poised and<br />
neatly dressed with a robin’s egg blue dress, foil<br />
wrapped buttons and buckle, and smartly weaved<br />
bobbed hair.<br />
“The Laundress” is a unique expression of<br />
American folk art. She is indelible. When asked,<br />
“what objects do you most remember from the<br />
groundbreaking publication, American Primitive,”<br />
collectors often remark, “that towel woman!”
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