Folk Art Chicken

Name/Title

Folk Art Chicken

Description

Folk art chicken cut out of wood and painted.

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Wood

Made/Created

Artist

Erven Boese

Date made

circa 1920

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Folk Art

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Folk Art celebrates the creativity of people using items available to them to create things of beauty for their home or yard. Much of folk art reflects the cultural life of a community and brings to mind the years before industrialization of our society. Although people have made such artwork for centuries, it was not referred to as folk art until the nineteenth century. Folk Art pieces are very popular today and sell well in the antiques market.