What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art probably is the latest one to become popular.

Few things say more about the potential of home-grown artistic talent than the eye-popping procession of richly carved and layered “tramp art” that cropped up in America between the Civil War and the ...

What is “tramp art”? There is folk art, regional art, naive art, fine art and other very special names for groups of collectibles and antiques, but tramp art is probably the latest one to become ...

Folksy Tramp Art pieces can be fascinating to collect. Tramp Art is the work of usually anonymous, untrained artisans who roamed the American countryside from the mid-19th Century to the first third ...

Folk art often tends to have anonymous creators, unlike the fine arts, where artists can become household names. But when it comes to tramp art, a particular woodworking tradition that might ...

Tramp art is the kind of stuff that`s so ugly it`s sort of beautiful. Not much is known about this widespread form of folk art, said to have been made by hoboes between 1870 and 1930. The European ...

No Idle Hands, installation view at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SANTA FE, New Mexico — To the uninitiated, the phrase “tramp art” ...

Tramp art, which is a form of folk art, is a style of chip-wood carving that did well in America from the time of the Civil War through the 1930s. This style of wood carving originated mostly in ...