Folk Art By: Cooper Nick Ben and Jeremy

Levi Mentzer Born May 3, 1811 ca Mentzer Family Member pen and ink on paper mounted on paperboard 10 1/4 x 8 in. (25.9 x 20.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Hulda Martin in her 55 year 1826 Frederick Mayhew Born: Chilmark, Massachusetts 1785 Died: Cambridge, Ohio 1854 oil on canvas 26 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (66.5 x 56.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson Smithsonian American Art Museum 3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center

Woman with Gold Necklace ca Attributed to Prior-Hamblen School oil on canvas 27 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (69 x 56.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson In this photo I observe that there is a woman in a blue dress facing the left with a flower in her hand. There is only one woman and a flower In this picture. I think it was made before the civil war. The woman is facing to the left in this picture. Who is this woman? What is she staring at? Why is she holding a flower in her hand? Why did the artist make this?

Thelma Snowdon 1846 James Owen watercolor, ink, and pencil on paperboard 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (23.7 x 16.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Man with Gold Pencil ca Attributed to Prior-Hamblen School oil on canvas 27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (69.1 x 56.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson