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As a category within folk art, animalia has long been a favorite of collectors with a country sensibility. Ann Rascati, owner of Kindred’s Antiques and Folk Art, in Osterville, Massachusetts (508-420-7390) believes in combining old and new pieces of animalia, and her Cape Cod shop is proof positive. "For every piece of contemporary folk art in my shop, I have something antique. I believe today's folk artists are trying to keep alive an interest in old things and old ways," she says.
In her shop, Rascati displays such pairings as an array of vintage duck decoys next to a swan painting done on an old gate by contemporary folk artist Mike Butler. “My husband and I have collected folk art for years,” says Rascati, who opened her Cape Cod shop two years ago. She has 1930s birdhouses next to new birdhouses made of recycled wood. There are swan and whale carvings by contemporary folk artist Mike Bacle, and old bird carvings as well. Prices range from $20 for a simple new object to $450 for an antique birdhouse.
“I think it helps to engage the new collectors, young people in their 20s and 30s, when they see old and new things combined,” says Rascati. |
