Chicago area alliances may include the Old Town School of Folk Music, Gallery 37, and Woman Made Gallery, among others.
Buy a mask of your own at the connecting folk art gallery at prices from 900 to 25,000 pesos.
For example Joshua Johnson's group portrait "The Westwood Children" from around 1807 hangs in the folk art gallery but is almost as competent as — and visually stronger than — Jacob Eichholtz's 1820 painting "The Ragan Sisters" in the colonial portraits gallery.
Susan Baerwald, a former Hollywood producer who now runs Just Folk, a gallery outside Santa Barbara, Calif., that she started with a fellow TV industry veteran, Marcy Carsey, said her first brush with American folk art was buying quilts.
But despite the flocks of fashion folk at gallery events during New York Fashion Week, the focus at the shows is more on craft than art.
Like most of them, he has a day job, in his case running a folk art gallery out of his home, where he lives with his wife, Boo Gordon, who teaches preschool, and his children, 13 and 15.
"There's a flurry of people just about the same age who are downsizing and offering things on the market," said Roger Ricco of the Manhattan folk art gallery Ricco/Maresca.
"They have been around a long time and have collected according to the traditional canon, which generally does not include work by self-taught artists or outsider art," said Frank Maresca, co-owner of the Manhattan folk art gallery Ricco Maresca.
At Yale it is not entirely clear why Moulthrop's "Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Robbins" of 1812, with its beautifully carpeted, precariously tilted floor isn't hanging in the folk art gallery, among three splendidly plain portraits by Ammi Phillips and two splendidly fancier ones by the artist known as the Beardsley Limner, except that it is extremely tiny.
Upstairs, in the J.O.J.Frost Folk Art Gallery, I found more evidence of Marblehead's nautical heart, particularly a large, semi-abstract painting of an angry sea, depicting the black eye of a hurricane, and above it, simultaneously, the egg-yolk sunrise of the storm's aftermath.
The Folk Tree gallery, 217 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena 91105., Pasadena 91105
