Appraisal: 1890 Folk Art Seated Figure Wood Carving, from Salt Lake City Hour 3. In Salt Lake City Hour 3, Karen M. Keane appraises an 1890 folk art seated figure wood carving. Funding for ANTIQUES ...

In the 1950s, America's best-known folk-art wood-carver was Wilhelm Schimmel of Cumberland Valley, Pa. His pieces, even then, went for thousands of dollars. Schimmel (1817-90) was born in Germany and ...

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In the 1950s, America's best-known folk-art wood-carver was Wilhelm Schimmel of Cumberland Valley, Pa. A carved eagle by this man was the dream of many a collector. His pieces, even then, went for ...

An artist has installed a bronze sculpture of the US First Lady Melania Trump in a field near her hometown in Slovenia. The statue is based on a wood carving commissioned from a local craftsman last ...

KALAMAZOO --Craig "Curly" Spink swirls a handmade jig above a water-filled 15-Gallon galvanized steel tub in his Kalamazoo back yard, tugging and relaxing the line attached to a wooden fish decoy he ...

Folk artist Isaac Smith typically woke up at his Oak Cliff home around 7 a.m. and drank a beer before picking up an ax and a knife to spend the rest of his day carving animals out of wood. Smith, 72, ...

A young black man in Jim Crow-era Mississippi is riding a mule to a baseball game in a nearby town. Unfortunately, he bears a passing resemblance to an escaped murderer being pursued by the police and ...

A shaded tunnel of lattice ends in a world of beady-eyed creatures frozen in time, all with stories of their own. Imagination takes hold and the small adventures of the wooden carving seem to come to ...

Penryn woodcarver and history buff Doug Shaw stands by the motto “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s why visitors to this weekend’s Christmas Folk Art Show at the Manheim train station will ...