Our folk art collection includes: Decorative Items, Drawings, Frakturs, Paintings, Samplers, Silhouettes and Wood Carvings. To see our current offerings, scroll down through this page or click on the above links to go directly to items of interest. Larger images of the drawings, frakturs and samplers may be seen by clicking on the image.  Some may consider Butter Prints as a separate category of folk art.  They may be seen by clicking here.

Decorative Items
	Steam Tug Boat “Scotten” – Pine – Original Alligatored Paint – 21″ Long c1930
	Chest of drawers made from cigar boxes by a Civil War veteran and given to his niece Emma.  Each drawer has a note to poignant note to Emma from her uncle.9 1/4″ w x 11 3/4″ h x 8 1/8″ d
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Drawings
	Valentine featuring a boy on a sled with some toys; Dated February 14, 1877; Original frame; 4 1/8″ x 6″ sight
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Frakturs
	Ohio Mourning Fraktur; Text is in both German and English; 17″ x 14″ framed
	Berlin Ohio Birth Fraktur; Watercolor and ink; Mounted on a paper backing  with stickers and cut outs from trade cards attached; Signed by artist; 16 5/8″ x 12 5/8″ framed
	WW ll Christmas Fraktur / Card; Watercolor and ink on wooden board; Made to appear as if it was a post card; two sided; 8 3/4″ x 15″
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Paintings
	Click here to see our current inventory of folk art paintings
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Samplers
	Julia Williams Sampler, Muskingum County Ohio; 19 3/4″ x 1″ framed
	Mary Creasey’s sampler; Age 12 years; 13 3/4″ x 10 3/4″ framed
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Silhouettes
	Probably done as an engagement or marriage gift; Subjects identified in the back as John and Catherine Beard of Columbiana County Ohio; 8 3/4″ x 7″ sight; 13″ x 10 3/4″ matted and framed
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Wood carvings
	House Wren; Signed on the base “by Bob and Bonnie Allen”; 1978
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