Winterthur’s “A Colorful Folk” showcases the collections of Henry Francis du Pont and Frederick Sheely Weiser (1935-2009), a Lutheran minister and collector of Pennsylvania German decorative ...

Professor Henry J. Kauffman, who wrote the book Pennsylvania Dutch: American Folk Art in 1964, did such a prolific job; I used his text when I was teaching a course about the Oley Valley to Oley […] ...

A member of the PA German Society, I was honored when Mr. Thomas Gerhart, their editor, asked me if I would allow them to include several rare fraktur folk art pieces from my collection in the ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. - Sabrina Hornung comes from a family with a strong German heritage. She is exploring some of that heritage by learning the German art of cut paper called scherenschnitte. Hornung ...

She’s even helped spread folk art to younger generations by incorporating her work into an illustrated children's book called “Wild Animal ABC,” which was published in 2021.

The artistic flair of the otherwise pragmatic Pennsylvania Germans will be showcased in “A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans and the Art of Everyday Life,” opening Sunday at Winterthur ...

Then last summer, while attending the Goschenhoppen Historians’ Folk Festival, Williams found two songbooks – Pennsylvania German secular folk songs and James Frill’s Music Book.

Renowned folk artist Johnny Claypoole, a master painter of Pennsylvania German hex signs, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, a family spokesman ...

Related exhibits: The Philadelphia Museum of Art is showcasing “Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fratur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection” now through April 26.