primitivism in art

A brief biography of Henri Rousseau accompanies fifteen color reproductions and critical interpretations of his works.

Traces the history of various forms of American folk sculpture, including weathervanes, whirligigs, pavement lids, trade signs, gravestones, carousel figures, snowmen and others.

Folk artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley recalls her rural Georgia childhood in words and paintings.

Looks at the life of American folk artist Grandma Moses, discussing her experiences growing up and living on a farm, and the unexpected fame she garnered after beginning to paint in her later years.

Recreates the life of Bill Traylor who enriched the world with over 1200 pictures full of warmth and humor.

An introduction to the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist Henri Rousseau.

A young boy is fascinated by the life and paintings of the French painter Rousseau. He discovers many things about the artist and how he painted the exotic but primitive pictures.

Collection of paintings by Bahamian painter Amos Greenfield, complemented by poems by Eloise Greenfield, present a picture of life in the islands.