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This is the first edition of Jean Lipman's foundational survey of American folk sculpture, published by Pantheon Books in 1948.
The work is widely regarded as the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of American folk art in three dimensions, covering wood carving, metal casting, and stone cutting.
Lipman draws on material created largely by anonymous craftsmen - shipwrights, blacksmiths, stonecutters, cabinetmakers, sailors, farmers, and itinerant artisans - presenting folk art as an authentic visual language rooted in everyday American experience.
Illustrated throughout with 183 plates, the book includes four color plates that appear to be individually laid in by hand, a production feature typical of higher-quality Pantheon art books of the late 1940s.
Subjects range from ship figureheads and weather vanes to cigar-store figures, carousel carvings, decoys, toys, architectural ornaments, and portrait sculpture.
The printing is clear and sharp, and the layout reflects Pantheon's postwar commitment to serious, museum-adjacent art publishing.
Jean Lipman (1909-1998) was a major figure in the legitimization of American folk and vernacular art.
As founding editor of Art in America and an influential curator, writer, and advocate, she helped move folk art from the margins of collecting into museums and academic discourse.
American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone remains a cornerstone reference, frequently cited in later scholarship and still valued by collectors, curators, and historians.
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