American folk painting

"This is the most comprehensive book ever published about the charming and enduringly interesting art of the self-taught American painter who worked in the small towns and countryside. Lavishly illustrated, with almost half of the full-page reproductions in color, it includes paintings from every major private and public collection of folk art in America, some of them well known, but with numerous oils and watercolors here illustrated for the first time." --publisher description.