American Folk Art @ Cooperstown

Lavern Kelley was a dairy farmer who lived just a few miles south of Cooperstown on a small family farm kept up by him and his brother. He ...

I was walking through the folk art gallery of the museum today and a little-noticed figure caught my eye. An unknown sailor in a painting c...

Studying American folk art has shown me time and time again how the creative products of an artist can mask the turbulent life from which t...

One of our curators recently found this piece behind some large farming equipment in a wing of our storage facility and brought it out to g...