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Folk art portrait sculpture.(Current and coming)(American folk art exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum)
Because of their originality, rarity and great visual interest, the group of twelve three-dimensional polychromed wood portraits the sculptor Asa Ames carved between 1847 and 1851 are among the most important examples of American folk art. They are also some of the most charming. Depicting young men and women and children--Ames's family members, friends, and neighbors in and around the small town of Evans in Erie County, New York--the sculptures are sensitive and intimate portrayals carved in an honest, forthright style.
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An exhibition opening this month at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City brings together eight of the twelve sculptures, providing a unique opportunity to study this small but significant oeuvre. Ames is both a mysterious and a tragic figure. He died from tuberculosis when he was twenty-seven years old, and few other details of his life are known. In fact, the United States census of 1850 is the only known document that records Ames by name.
During the period he was "sculpturing," as his occupation is listed in the census, there was little precedent for portraits in wood, and in ...
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