Robert Cargo
FOLK ART GALLERY

Self-taught, visionary, and outsider artists of the South
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Additional Special Collections Available for Purchase

These collections would be especially appealing for museum acquisitions or for the advanced collector. A visit to see any of this material first hand is recommended. Inquiries invited.  Photographs and prices on request.
Haitian Spirit Flags

This collection of approximately 90 flags was personally selected by Robert Cargo over the course of a number of trips to Haiti in the 1980's.  Would divide into two parts. 

Molas

A fine collection of approximately 70 pieces put together by American military man and wife living in the Panama Canal Zone in the 1960s.

Folk Erotica 

Small collection of contemporary folk erotic works, some published in FOLK EROTICA by Milton Simpson.

Animals by Minnie and Garland Adkins

Group of large-scale animals, including alligator, red fox, black bear, tiger, horse, pig family (sow and 3 piglets), possum family (possum and two babies)--7 major animals, not counting babies.

Walking Canes by Larry Hamm

Collection of 10 carved, painted walking canes by Kentucky folk artist Larry Hamm (1937-1996). Mostly presidential subjects: George Washington, Honest Abe, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon (1994), Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton (1994), Uncle Sam. All canes from 1995 except as indicated otherwise. 

Walking Canes by Sam Martin

Collection of 10 carved wood walking canes by Alabama carver, Sam Martin (1926-1998), three of which published by Wendy Lavitt, ANIMALS IN AMERICAN FOLK ART, 1990, P. 144: Alligator, cougar, racoon with baby. Other subjects include Indian with Rattlesnake/Indian with inlaid cedar (choice); Ayatollah Komeini, Abraham Lincoln with hat/Bare-headed Lincoln (choice); Black Man; Chinese Man with long queue; Old Man with necktie; Eagle with Rattlesnake/Eagle (choice); Four Raccoon Heads and Four Balls in Cage; Skull; Old Man with flowing beard and mustache; Bear Head (wild smilax); Eagle Head (wild smilax). Natural wood finish. Choice of any 10 canes sold as a group. Canes date from decade of the 1980s.

 

 

 


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Robert Cargo Folk Art Gallery
Caroline Cargo, Director
110 Darby Road · Paoli, PA  19301
610-240-9528  ·  info@cargofolkart.com
Inquiries welcome.  Open by appointment only.