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This is where you will find articles about folk art and artists. We have written some, and some are reissues by permission of different publications. In addition, there are listings of publishers, and periodicals. We also have a separate page of links to other folk art or antiques related sites.

We are always adding articles and links to other sites. There will be lots more coming in the future. If you have any suggestions, or topics you'd like to see, let us know.

Articles:

• Jim Popso and His Coal Country Folk Art by Woodward S. Bousquet.
  
• Windmill Weights, Pictured - Identified; a book by Rick Nidey and Don Lawrence.
  
• Tramp Art. What it is, some history, and some information about it.
  
• The History of Tramp Art: From Hobo and Tramp Art Carving: an authentic American folk tradition
  By Adolph Vandertie with Patrick Spielman, used by permission of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
  
• The History of Hobo Art: From Hobo and Tramp Art Carving: an authentic American folk tradition
  By Adolph Vandertie with Patrick Spielman, used by permission of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
  
• How to Make Hobo Art whimseys, chains, and balls-in-cages: From Hobo and Tramp Art Carving: an authentic American folk tradition By Adolph Vandertie with Patrick Spielman, used by permission of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
  
• How to Make Tramp Art. From Hobo and Tramp Art Carving: an authentic American folk tradition By Adolph Vandertie with Patrick Spielman, used by permission of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
  
• Nita and Zita: Exotic dancers and artists from Romania who settled in New Orleans. By Howard Campbell.
  

Magazine and Book Publishers:

• Collector Books, P.O. Box 3009, Paducah, KY USA 42002-3009. Call toll free: 1-800-626-5420.
  
• Neal-Schuman Publishers, 100 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013. Fax toll free: 1-800-584-2414.
  
• Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 1-(800) - 848-1186. Publishers of Hobo and Tramp Art Carving: an authentic American folk tradition by Adolph Vandertie with Patrick Spielman.
  

Publications:

• Maine Antique Digest: The Marketplace For Americana. It's a very good publication.
  
• Antiques & the Arts Weekly, the weekly antiques and art newspaper from Connecticut, sometimes known as The Newtown Bee.
  
• Folk Art, a quarterly magazine of the Museum of American Folk Art. Phone 212-977-7170.
  
• Raw Vision Magazine: A quarterly magazine of outsider art and art brut.

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