American Vernacular

New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Sculptures

This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's rich heritage of vernacular art out of the antiques arena and the specialty museum and into today's art world.

Newly identified objects

American Vernacular presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious totems, from antique trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes.
The book American Vernacular reveals the powerful strains of imagination that have shaped the American visual landscape and continue to nourish cutting-edge artists today.

Frank Maresca

Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco have for years, through the Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York City and through their collaboration on several books, played a pivotal role in the effort to bring folk art into the mainstream.