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American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture is the first comprehensive, scholarly book focusing on American folk canes and will be a foundation for future research in the field.  Reproduced in full color, more than three hundred canes dating from the early nineteenth century to today disclose the complex cultural meaning, obscure individual histories, and light-hearted social commentaries of folk art walking sticks.  Detailed, comparative, and historical photographs show the diverse styles, techniques and themes used y the generations of American carvers who have mastered this expressive and utilitarian art form. Each illustration eloquently demonstrates the carvers’ artistry in transforming a simple functional object into a work of art.  

American Folk Art Canes

Author and prominent folk art collector George H. Meyer was among the first to recognize that American folk art canes are works of art in their own right.  Mr. Meyer was the editor of Folk Arts Biographical Index (1987) and Early American Face Jugs (2019)

by George H Meyer and Kay White Meyer

American Folk Art Canes, Personal Sculpture

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American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture.

Hand-carved canes are a part of American’s culture and art, speaking to our rich national heritage and capacity for self-expression.  As vehicles of personal communication and group identify, American folk art canes display images ranging from King Kong to depression-era bathing beauties, from boxer “Gentleman Jim” Corbett to an anonymous shoemaker, and from a Civil War soldiers to Dolly Parton.  Symbols of fraternal and military organizations also occupy the miniature word on the cane, as do representations of nature, from snakes swallowing frogs to bill-filled gardens.