Vernacular Architecture in Folk Art

Tonight at 7 p.m. on WIOX Catskills Folk will focus on vernacular or folk architecture as portrayed in folk art.  Catskills Folk Connection's recent exhibit "Growing Up To Brush" has just closed at the Roxbury Art Center.  It featured two artists, Nellie Bly Ballard and Don Strausser, whose works documented the change in the Catskills landscape in the second half of the 20th century.  Their paintings also document the vernacular architecture of the Catskills, shown in its natural context.

Here are two of the paintings I will discuss tonight, but for technical reasons the rest of them cannot be shown in time for Catskills Folk.  I will post them as soon as I resolve the issue.

1) Nellie Bly Ballard, The Denver Store [detail]

2) Don Strausser, [Stone House with Abandoned Pasture]

Ginny