This is a second-hand hardcover book

Condition: One edge of the compressed pages has a brown stain . The last 14 pages the stain shows a thin strip on the inside of the pages, with surface tearing in this area on 9 pages; area affected on each page is roughly 8cm x 0.5cm, and the contents of the pages is ‘Exhibition History’ and ‘Index’. On the first page there is a stain in the top right corner (2cm x 6cm.). Four pages have a small crease to the top out side corner and nine pages have a 2mm tear to the top edge. The rest of the book has no faults.

Dimensions: 245x290mm Pages: 431 Publisher: American Folk Art Museum Publication date: 2001 first edition

American Anthem

Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum

American Anthem celebrates the symbols of liberty, ingenuity, and refuge indelibly embedded in American folk art from colonial days through the present. This glorious full-colour volume highlights treasures from the important collection of the American Folk Art Museum works that will be on display from June 2002 through December 2002 in the Museum's stunning new building in New York City.

From Log Cabin quilts and painted wood furniture to watercolours 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 noted contemporary self-taught artist Thornton Dial Sr.-here are 266 remarkable examples of this vital yet still under-examined American art form.

The range of this collection is extraordinary; it represents the very best of American folk art over three centuries.

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