Holger Cahill and American folk art.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Jeffers, Wendy | Copyright information

Holger Cahill was one of the earliest leading supporters of folk art in the US. He was first introduced to the art form in the 1920s. He believed that folk art expressed what artists knew and felt rather than what they saw.

Holger Cahill was one of the leading early devotees of American folk art in this country.(1) His exhibitions and essays in the early decades of the twentieth century created an awareness of this indigenous art, and largely because of his interest and that of his...

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