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Folk Art, they are accessible to art
lovers and art critics, who can see
them, admire them and wonder why
their own dabblings never made it past
Mom's refrigerator door.
The museum, whose works date
from the 18th century through 1986, of-
fers several different exhibits each year
but many items from its 2,500-object
permanent collection remain on view
year-round.
Among these are Ammi Phillips'
exquisite $1 million (folk does not mean
cheap) "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and
Dog," an 18th century silk sampler by
12-year-old Lucy Low of Massa-
chusetts; Amidee Thibault's man-on-
bicycle trade sign which originally
hung atop a bicycle, livery and paint
Hand-made furniture, dolls and
quilts now have a home in the
Museum of American Folk Art.
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shop in Vermont; Asa Ames' 19th cen-
tury model of a phrenological head;
and a 102-inch by 103-inch by 12-inch
weathervane that dominates the
gallery.
"Today, there is more and more
recognition that there's artistic merit
and important historical and sociolog-
ical value in what might have been
viewed as the homely American ex-
perience," says Wertkin. "People are
going into their attics, removing these
works of art and hanging them in
prominent places, selling them or con-
tacting us directly to donate them."
Because most of the artists whose
works grace this museum never took
art classes, their works often lack the
artifice of professional art. They em-
phasize people or events as a toddler
would, and their paintings often feature
arbitrary perspective, unmixed bright
colors and very geometrical shapes.
Wertkin has been the museum's
assistant director since 1980. Like
many of the artists whose works he has
since purchased, he came to the world
of folk art from a profession with seem-
ingly no ties to art — law. Now an
authority on folk art, Wertkin teaches
courses in the graduate folk art pro-
gram the museum co-sponsors with
New York University. Because folk art
is a new academic discipline, experts
in the field usually don't have doc-