What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art probably is the latest one to become popular.

What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other very special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art is probably the latest one to become ...

Folksy Tramp Art pieces can be fascinating to collect. Tramp Art is the work of usually anonymous, untrained artisans who roamed the American countryside from the mid-19th Century to the first third ...

Folk art often tends to have anonymous creators, unlike the fine arts, where artists can become household names. But when it comes to tramp art, a particular woodworking tradition that might ...

For this show, you’ve got to think inside the box. “Contain It” is all about boxes and bowls and pots and jugs and buckets and caldrons. … You get the point. The exhibit, opening Thursday at the Arts ...

Few things say more about the potential of home-grown artistic talent than the eye-popping procession of richly carved and layered “tramp art” that cropped up in America between the Civil War and the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In the past few decades, tramp art has experienced a sort of renaissance, popping up at craft fairs, ...

A line of antiques that had particular appeal to men in the past is the Tramp Art category. Making use of discarded cigar boxes, these items were refashioned into art forms. The name can be traced ...

Whittling was for men what quilting was for women during long winter evenings inY the country back at the turn of the century. While the women painstakingly pieced together little fabric remnants to ...

In keeping with the Texas theme of the January 20 opening-night preview of the American Antique Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion, the party’s grand chairman was Lynda Johnson Robb, daughter of former ...

Tramp art is a unique woodcraft that was brought to the United States by German and Scandinavian immigrants who settled in New York and Pennsylvania and other areas. Interesting pieces were created by ...