The flowering of American folk art, 1776-1876 / Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester

New York : Viking Press, in cooperation with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; A Studio book. Physical description; 288 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-287). Contents; Pictures : painted, drawn and stitched. Portraits ; Landscapes and seascapes ; Scenes of daily life ; Religious, literary and historical subjects ; Still life, cutouts and samplers ; Penmanship, fractur and presentation pieces -- Sculpture in wood, metal, stone and bone. Portraits ; Ship figureheads and sternboards ; Weathervanes and whirligigs ; Cigar-store figures and other shop signs ; Decoys ; Toys ; Household ornaments -- Decoration for home and highway. Overmantels, fireboards, cornices ; Walls and floors ; Exterior ornament ; Tavern signs -- Furnishings. Furniture ; Accessories. Subjects; Folk art United States. Primitivism in art United States. Primitivism in art. Folk art United States History. Primitivism in art United States. American folk art, (1776-1876). American folk art history. American folk art : history. Folk art, American 18th-19th century. Folk art U.S.A. (1775-1799). Folk art U.S.A. 19th Century. Genres; Bibliography. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated.