America's Folk Art: Treasures of American Folk Arts and Crafts in Distinguished Museums and Collections

189 pp. Illustrated with more than 250 photographs, 63 in full color. This extensively illustrated volume covers a broad range of such pieces produced before 1900, as represented in many of the nation's outstanding museums and collections open to the public. A variety of intriguing items of wood, iron, pewter, brass and tin; ship's figureheads; glassware; weathervanes; toys; country furniture; textiles; folk painting; and Western gear are described in historical context.--jacket