American Folk Art, Weathervanes and Wall Art. Season 28 Episode 6 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Fleur-de-lis painted wall art and holiday painted wood entry door accents.

Even if you are well versed in cigar-store tribal figures, compressed perspective and other aspects of American folk art, the exhibition “American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds” at the ...

Most folk-art collectors consider all weathervanes, commercially made or homemade, to be folk art. Prices are highest for the most elaborate 3-D vanes by known makers.

Folk art finds in Massachusetts: from rare auction items to custom weathervanes. What exactly is folk art? We try to get to the bottom of that with experts at Skinner.

Roger DiTarando built his first weathervane more than a decade ago, and it’s still turning in the wind above his metalworking studio workshop. Three intoxicated pigs dance atop an immense puffy ...

Antique weathervanes — as important pieces of American folk art and rural history — can go for thousands, even in poor condition. Of course, the hammer price depends on the motifs present, the ...

“Many weathervanes made in this area were anything but folk art,” says Stephen Fletcher, vice president and director of American furniture and decorative arts for Skinner, an auction house and ...

Every day is a find in the revolving inventory of treasures at the Skinner auction company’s warehouse in Marlborough. We wondered how the experts there define folk art.A Newburyport rooster, or ...

The humble weathervane just might be the earliest form of kinetic art. As the winds of art history blew firmly in the direction of Modernism during the early 20th century, some US artists began to ...

BRYAN EATON/Staff photoThis historic weathervane sat atop the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist, in downtown Newburyport since 1725 until about six years ago.

J W Fiske (attrib.) copper weathervane depicting legendary harness-racing horse St. Julien, King of Trotters. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000 Large circa-1890 mechanical shooting gallery target of ...