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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past few decades, tramp art has experienced a sort of renaissance, popping up at craft fairs, leading small museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

No Idle Hands, installation view at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SANTA FE, New Mexico — To the uninitiated, the phrase “tramp art” ...