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Merry Folk Art Christmas!

Happy Holidays! Here are twenty-five holiday-themed beauties to help you celebrate your Christmas with some of your favorite artists.

HORACE PIPPIN Christmas Morning, Breakfast (1945) // Oil on canvas; 21 1/8 x 26 3/16 in. (53.6 x 66.5 cm) via @cincyartmuseum
Happy Holidays from Anna Mond’s Fantastical Beings c. 2023 via the artist
WILLIAM HAWKINS Nativity Collage (1989) // Enamel on masonite with collage via @artsmia
GRANDMA MOSES Out for Christmas Trees (1946) // Oil on pressed wood; 26 × 36 in. (66.0 × 91.4 cm) via @americanart
Mose Tolliver, Christmas Tree (date unknown) // 10×17 paint on wood board via @oldfolkart
NELLIE MAE ROWE When I Was a Little girl Looking for Santa Claus (1982) // Crayon, colored pencil, and pencil on paper; 19 x 23 1/2 inches via @highmuseumofart
JAKE MCCORD Untitled (Santa and Mrs. Clause) (date unknown) // Paint on wood board; 48×45 via @oldfolkart
HOWARD FINSTER Santa on Board (1992) // Measures approximately 28″ tall x 10″ wide via @consignmenthousecville
CLEMENTINE HUNTER The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Wise Men (1957) // Oil on board; 48 × 78 in. via Neal Auction Company
HENRY DARGER Untitled (“Straight Arrow”) (Mid-twentieth century) // Collage on cardboard with 1959 Christmas Seal stamps; 13 1/2 x 9 1/4″ via @afamuseum
MAUD LEWIS Winter Sleigh Ride (1961) // Mixed media on beaverboard
BILL TRAYLOR Running Deer (1939-1942) // Tempera and graphite on repurposed Mounds advertisement; 7 x 12 ¾ in. via @christiesinc
MINNIE ADKINS Silent Night (2003) via Kimball Sterling
HOWARD FINSTER Merry Christmas (1991) via Skot Foreman Gallery
FRANCES CALDWELL Christmas Morning (1952) via Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
ARTIST UNIDENTIFIED Santa Claus (in black robes) (1860 – 1900) via American Folk Art Museum
SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN Mary and Joseph Going on Back from Bethlehem, (ca. 1971) via ZQ Art Gallery
IKE MORGAN Santa #21 (n.d.) via Webb Gallery
FELIPE ARCHULETA Christ Child in Manger (1978-1979) // Carved and painted wood, cloth, straw, and glass via Smithsonian American Art Museum
GRANDMA MOSES Christmas (1958) via Smithsonian American Art Museum
MOSE TOLLIVER Black Santa (no date)
CLEMENTINE HUNTER Christmas Tree (date unknown)
ELIJAH PIERCE Three Wise Men (ca. 1950) // Oil, paper and glitter on carved plywood via Smithsonian American Art Museum
WILLIAM HAWKINS Untitled (Nativity with Collage #3) (1989) // Enamel and collage on plywood; 48 x 48 in. via Ricco/Maresca Gallery
ANNA MOND In Nativitate Domini (2022) via the artist
The FolkArtwork Collective Outsider Art Fair Online Viewing Room.

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