Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Folk art
A compendium of Canadian folk artists / Terry Kobayashi, Michael Bird. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1985. 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK841 K62 1985
Folk art — Canada
Primitivism in art — Canada.
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A dictionary of folk artists in Canada : from the 17th century to the present with inclusions of popular portrait, topographical, genre, religious and decorative artists of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries / Blake McKendry. Elginburg, ON. : Blake McKendry Limited, 1988. 287 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK841 M45 1988
Folk artists — Canada — Dictionaries.
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A joyous vision : contemporary folk art in Nova Scotia Bridgewater : Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society, 1995. iv, 31 pages : illustrations; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.446 #24 - Vertical File
A Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society Publication.
Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society.
Folk art — Nova Scotia
Festivals — Nova Scotia — Lunenburg (County)
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A life of its own : Chris Huntington and the resurgence of Nova Scotia folk art 1975-1995 / curator, Ken Martin, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1997. 47 pages : illustrations some copies; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.508 #14 - Vertical File
Exhibition catalogue: 27 September, 1997 - 25 January, 1998.
Folk art — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions.
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A Life of its own : Chris Huntington and the resurgence of Nova Scotia folk art 1975-1995 / curator, Ken Martin, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Chris Huntington and the resurgence of Nova Scotia folk art. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1997. 47 pages : illustrations some copies; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.508 # 14 - Vertical File
Exhibition catalogue: 27 September, 1997 - 25 January, 1998.
Folk art — Exhibitions — Nova Scotia.
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A record for time / organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; supported by Museum Assistance Programmes, National Museums of Canada; Deborah A. Young, exhibition curator. 1985. 14 pages; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.293 #24 - Vertical File
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Museum Assistance Programmes (Canada)
Family records
Art — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Exhibitions
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A record for time : an exhibition of decorated family and individual records, memorials, tokens of friendship and embroidered memorials and samplers produced in Nova Scotia prior to 1900 / Deborah A. Young ; Appendix A by Mora Dianne O'Neill, Appendix B by Laurie Hamilton ; genealogical entries by Mora Dianne O'Neill and Susan Foshay. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1985. 63 pages : illustrations some copies; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.16 #1 - Vertical File
Organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; supported by Museum Assistance Programmes, National Museums of Canada.
Samplers — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions
Registers of births, etc. — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions
Marriage records — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions
Fraktur art — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions
Folk art — Nova Scotia
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Around the bend : the whimsical world of Michael Chisholm Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 112 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK842 N935 C542
Cover subtitle: Lawn art, folk art, lawn dummies & animals. Includes index.
Photography, Artistic
Photography of animals
Folk art.
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Canadian folk art : old ways in a new land / Michael Bird. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1983. vi, 121 pages : col. illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK841 B57
Folk art — Canada
Art populaire — Canada.
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Come awa' dear old Granny : a Cape Breton ballad / Trevor Jones. Oakville, Ont. : Harmuse Publications, 1974. score 6 pages : 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.81 #16 - Vertical File
For chorus SATB and piano. Composer Canadian.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Folk art : primitive and naïve art in Canada / Blake McKendry ; foreword by J. Russell Harper. Toronto : Methuen, 1983. 288 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK841 M34 1983
Includes index.
Folk art — Canada
Primitivism in art — Canada.
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Folk art of Nova Scotia Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1976. 59 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N9201 F666
Includes index. Exhibition organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Cf. pages 5.
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Francis Silver (1841-1920) : his talent and times Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1982. 16 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.194 #1 - Vertical File
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Nine ethnic folk songs : for S.S.A.B / collected by Helen Creighton ; arranged by Eunice Sircom. Toronto : G.V. Thompson, 1977. score 50 pages : 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.301 #30 - Vertical File
All selections except no. 1 & 2 arr. for chorus SSAB with piano acc.; no. 1 & 2 arr. for unison chorus with piano acc.; no. 1 & 6 arr. for chorus SSAB with acc. for rehearsal only. Words in English, except no. 1 with words in French. Include
Choruses (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied
Choruses (Unison) with piano
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs — Nova Scotia.
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Nova Scotia folk art : Canada's cultural heritage / curator, Bernard Riordon. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1995. 44 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK842 N935 R585 1995
Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia held at Canada House, London, Nov. 22, 1989-Jan. 19, 1990, and other locations in the United Kingdom. Co-published by Nimbus Publishing.
Folk art — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions.
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Nova Scotia traditions 1988. ppages 48-59.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.303 #10 - Vertical File
In: Equinox 39, May-June 1988.
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Outstanding in their fields : scarecrows of Nova Scotia / by Elizabeth Previous ; photos by David Precious. Halifax : E. Precious, 1997. 84 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK842 N6 P74
Library's copy signed by authors.
Scarecrows
Folk art — Nova Scotia.
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Shinum place : folk song, arranged for S.A.T.B. chorus and piano / by Dennis Farrell. Waterloo, Ont. : Waterloo Music Co., 1974. score 11 pages : 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.333 #24 - Vertical File
Words from H. Creighton's Maritime folk songs, Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1962, c1961. Arranger resides in Canada.
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Folk songs — Atlantic Provinces.
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Spirit of Nova Scotia : traditional decorative folk art, 1780-1930 / Richard Henning Field. Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1985. x 211 pages : illustrations (some col.), map ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK842 N68 F53
Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, opening at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Jan. 18-Mar. 9, 1986 , and travelling to other galleries. Co-published: Toronto : Dundurn Press.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Mendel Art Gallery.
Folk art — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions
Decorative arts — Nova Scotia — Exhibitions.
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Tom Tilton : coaster and fisherman / narrated by Tom Tilton ; edited by Gale Huntington. Orono, Me. (South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono 04469) : Northeast Folklore Society, 1984. 68 pages, 2 folded pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #35 - Vertical File
Fisheries — Massachusetts — Martha's Vineyard
Fishing — Massachusetts — Martha's Vineyard
Fishers — Massachusetts — Biography
Fishermen — Folklore — United States
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Twas ever thus : a selection of Eastern Canadian folk art / foreword by Joan Murray ; preface by Ralph and Patricia Price ; introd. by J. Russell Harper. Toronto : M. F. Feheley, 1979. 87 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NK1177 T969
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